Decreasing the influence of arc feed currents and transient recovery voltages in single-phase conditions in EHV lines

Abstract

One of the most efficient ways to solve the problem of reactive power compensation connected with restriction of unacceptable levels of voltage on extrahigh voltage (EHV) power-transmission lines is installation of additional shunting reactors (SR) in the EHV networks. Moreover, installation of shunting reactors leads to the occurrence of resonance overvoltages under single-phase operation conditions of power transmission (for example within the one-phase automatic reclosing time), as well as to the occurrence of deenergized current phase of the arc feed in the arc channel, which prevents fast deionization of another channel and increasing transient recovery voltage. In this paper, measures for decreasing the influence of arc feed currents and transient recovery voltages in single-phase conditions of EHV lines are considered.