Mitigation of Sympathetic Inrush Current in Transformer Using the Technique of Point on Voltage Wave Control Switching

Abstract

The inrush currents which generated at the energization moment of an electric transformer can reach high values and cause some abnormal problems in the power system, and the sympathetic inrush current is produced in an electrical network during the energization of a transformer with the existence of other already supplied transformers. The present work has the purpose of eliminating these transient inrush currents. So this paper presents a data acquisition system based on dSPACE board 1104, and a laboratory setup experiment to measure the sympathetic inrush current. Moreover, a control switching to mitigate the sympathetic inrush current in a 2 kVA transformer will be developed and applied experimentally in the laboratory and also in the simulations. This control strategy is performed by considering the residual flux at the opening instant of related circuit-breaker. A comparative study is carried out showing the validity of the mitigation technique.