Substation-area Backup Protection Scheme for the Failure of 10kV Line Protection Device

Abstract

The research on wide-area backup protection for high-voltage transmission lines has made certain progress in recent years, but there are few reports published on substation-area backup protection for low-voltage 10kV transmission lines. Based on the characteristics of shared information in intelligent substation, a substation-area backup protection scheme to deal with the failure of 10kV line protection device is proposed in this paper. This scheme uses the device self-test information and heartbeat mechanism to monitor the operation status of 10kV line protection devices; to realize the substation-area backup protection for the 10kV transmission lines when any line protection device fails, the protection criterion is constructed by the action results of power directional elements of transformer protections and other 10kV line protections. The proposed scheme can greatly improve the speed of the fault isolation and has low requirements for data demand and synchronization. PSCAD simulation results show that the proposed method is with high correctness and feasibility.