CA2463575C - Protective relay capable of protection applications without protection settings - Google Patents
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Abstract
The current differential relay operates without adjustable settings, and includes a phase current differential element with a predetermined threshold, responsive to local phase current values and remote phase current values, to detect three- phase faults and producing a first output signal if the threshold value is exceeded. Either a negative sequence current differential element or two phase current differential elements, also having predetermined threshold values and responsive to the local and remote phase currents, detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to- phase-to-ground faults and produces a second output signal if the predetermined threshold is exceeded. A negative sequence or zero sequence current differential current element, with a predetermined threshold value is responsive to the local and remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and to produce a third output signal if the threshold is exceeded. If any one of the first, second and third output signals occurs, a trip signal is generated and directed to the associated circuit breaker. The thresholds are selected to permit use of the relay in a wide range of possible applications.
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Description PROTECTIVE RELAY CAPABLE OF PROTECTION APPLICATIONS
WITHOUT PROTECTION SETTINGS
Technical Field This invention relates generally to protective relays for electric power systems, and more particularly concerns a current differential relay without conventional adjustable settings which is useful in the protection of a power system.
Background of the Invention Historically, digital protective relays have had an adjustable "settings" capability, which enables a protection engineer to customize the operation of a protective relay to a particular protection' task in a power system. This is often a challenging exercise. For example, with a conventional overcurrent relay, the protection engineer must first determine the expected fault current and the maximum load current of the power system at the point in the system where the relay is connected. The protection engineer then establishes the operating settings of the overcurrent relay to provide a trip signal when the currents it measures from the power line reach a predetermined level above the maximum load current but below the anticipated fault current.
The determination of the anticipated fault current involves a rather complex calculation, which takes into account the source strength and voltage, the impedance of downstream transformers and the impedance of the line from the relay out to the end of the protection zone covered by the relay. In addition, the protection engineer must also often coordinate the relay which is being set with other protective relays, located both closer to the source and closer to the load than the relay being set. Further, if the line protected by the relay being set can provide power and serve load in both directions from the protective relay, the setting task becomes even more complicated.
WITHOUT PROTECTION SETTINGS
Technical Field This invention relates generally to protective relays for electric power systems, and more particularly concerns a current differential relay without conventional adjustable settings which is useful in the protection of a power system.
Background of the Invention Historically, digital protective relays have had an adjustable "settings" capability, which enables a protection engineer to customize the operation of a protective relay to a particular protection' task in a power system. This is often a challenging exercise. For example, with a conventional overcurrent relay, the protection engineer must first determine the expected fault current and the maximum load current of the power system at the point in the system where the relay is connected. The protection engineer then establishes the operating settings of the overcurrent relay to provide a trip signal when the currents it measures from the power line reach a predetermined level above the maximum load current but below the anticipated fault current.
The determination of the anticipated fault current involves a rather complex calculation, which takes into account the source strength and voltage, the impedance of downstream transformers and the impedance of the line from the relay out to the end of the protection zone covered by the relay. In addition, the protection engineer must also often coordinate the relay which is being set with other protective relays, located both closer to the source and closer to the load than the relay being set. Further, if the line protected by the relay being set can provide power and serve load in both directions from the protective relay, the setting task becomes even more complicated.
The setting task also becomes more complicated when the protection engineer must coordinate the protection provided by the relay being set with other protective relays set by another entity, an example being when utilities connect their respective power tie lines together or when utilities connect to heavy industrial loads having privately owned generators. Such connections are typically referred to as "interties". The relays at both ends of the intertie line portion must work together as a unit to properly protect the intertie; hence, their respective settings must be coordinated for proper operation and to prevent a malfunction, which can occur in the event of miscalculation or misapplication of a relay at either end of the intertie.
Accordingly, it is desirable for a protective relay to be able to protect a variety of electric power arrangements and configurations without the need to calculate and apply protective relay settings. Further, it would be desirable to simplify the protection of an intertie line portion to prevent misoperation of the protection.
Summary of the Invention Accordingly, in one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a current differential protective relay without user adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising: at least one phase current differential element, having a first non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion, to detect three-phase faults on the selected line portion and for providing a first output signal when said predetermined threshold is exceeded by three-phase current; a first negative sequence current differential element or two phase current differential elements, having a second non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded, wherein said two phase current differential elements include said one phase current differential element for detecting three-phase faults, or two additional phase current differential elements; and a second negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence differential element, having a third non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect individual phase-to-ground faults and providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded, wherein if one of the negative sequence current differential elements is used, it is either the first negative sequence current differential element used for detecting phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults or the second negative sequence current differential element, wherein the current differential elements include no adjustable operational settings.
In a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a current differential protective relay without user adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system: comprising: a first current differential protection function, having a first non-user predetermined, fixed threshold, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay on the selected line portion and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded by three phase current; a second current differential protection function, having a second non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational netting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a third current differential protection function, having a third non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational netting capability, responsive 3a to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and for providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
In a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a current differential protective relay without adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising: a first phase current differential element, having a first predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion, to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said predetermined threshold is exceeded by three-phase current; a second phase current differential element and a third phase current differential element having a combined second predetermined, fixed threshold value, collectively responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for collectively providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence differential element having a third predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents, and said remote phase currents to detect individual phase-to-ground faults and providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
In a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a current differential protective relay without adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising: at least one phase current differential element, having a first predetermined, fixed threshold, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay on the selected line portion and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion 3b to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded by three phase current; a first negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or at least one additional phase current differential element, having a second predetermined, fixed threshold value but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a second negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or a zero sequence current element responsive to zero sequence current values, having a third predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and for providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
In a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a protective relay for current differential protection for a selected power line, the protective relay comprising: a local current differential relay for protection of a selected power line portion of a power system, the local current differential relay having the capability of sampling three phase current values from its location on the power line at selected intervals of time and transmitting them to a remote relay also connected to the selected power line for current differential protection, wherein the remote relay is not coordinated with the local current differential relay for protection functions; and a sensing function in the local current differential relay for determining when the relay is connected to a remote relay which has adjustable settings for fault determination, wherein the local current differential relay, upon such determination, disables any protection functions therein while continuing to provide phase current values to the remote relay and to receive trip commands from the remote relay.
3c Brief Description of the Drawings Figure 1 is a diagram of a simple arrangement of a current differential relay system.
Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the system of the present invention.
Accordingly, it is desirable for a protective relay to be able to protect a variety of electric power arrangements and configurations without the need to calculate and apply protective relay settings. Further, it would be desirable to simplify the protection of an intertie line portion to prevent misoperation of the protection.
Summary of the Invention Accordingly, in one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a current differential protective relay without user adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising: at least one phase current differential element, having a first non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion, to detect three-phase faults on the selected line portion and for providing a first output signal when said predetermined threshold is exceeded by three-phase current; a first negative sequence current differential element or two phase current differential elements, having a second non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded, wherein said two phase current differential elements include said one phase current differential element for detecting three-phase faults, or two additional phase current differential elements; and a second negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence differential element, having a third non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect individual phase-to-ground faults and providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded, wherein if one of the negative sequence current differential elements is used, it is either the first negative sequence current differential element used for detecting phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults or the second negative sequence current differential element, wherein the current differential elements include no adjustable operational settings.
In a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a current differential protective relay without user adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system: comprising: a first current differential protection function, having a first non-user predetermined, fixed threshold, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay on the selected line portion and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded by three phase current; a second current differential protection function, having a second non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational netting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a third current differential protection function, having a third non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational netting capability, responsive 3a to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and for providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
In a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a current differential protective relay without adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising: a first phase current differential element, having a first predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion, to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said predetermined threshold is exceeded by three-phase current; a second phase current differential element and a third phase current differential element having a combined second predetermined, fixed threshold value, collectively responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for collectively providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence differential element having a third predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents, and said remote phase currents to detect individual phase-to-ground faults and providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
In a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a current differential protective relay without adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising: at least one phase current differential element, having a first predetermined, fixed threshold, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay on the selected line portion and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion 3b to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded by three phase current; a first negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or at least one additional phase current differential element, having a second predetermined, fixed threshold value but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a second negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or a zero sequence current element responsive to zero sequence current values, having a third predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and for providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
In a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a protective relay for current differential protection for a selected power line, the protective relay comprising: a local current differential relay for protection of a selected power line portion of a power system, the local current differential relay having the capability of sampling three phase current values from its location on the power line at selected intervals of time and transmitting them to a remote relay also connected to the selected power line for current differential protection, wherein the remote relay is not coordinated with the local current differential relay for protection functions; and a sensing function in the local current differential relay for determining when the relay is connected to a remote relay which has adjustable settings for fault determination, wherein the local current differential relay, upon such determination, disables any protection functions therein while continuing to provide phase current values to the remote relay and to receive trip commands from the remote relay.
3c Brief Description of the Drawings Figure 1 is a diagram of a simple arrangement of a current differential relay system.
Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the system of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a simplified diagram showing a conventional intertie arrangement.
Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention The present invention is a current differential relay without the capability of, or the need for, conventional adjustable settings. In current differential protection, referring to Figure 1, a "local" relay 12 at one end of a protected portion 13 of a power line obtains phase currents (A, B and C phases) from the power line at that location and further receives such currents obtained by a relay at a remote end of the line, referred to as a remote relay 14. The sum of these remote and local currents is then compared with a "pickup"
setting established for the particular application. Bi-directional communication occurs over a link 16, with sampled currents flowing in both directions. Circuit breakers 17 and 19 are responsive to the relays 12 and 14 to protect the line.
Conventional current differential protection can also be accomplished by phase comparison of the current signals between the relative phases of the remote and local currents, and further, charge comparison, in which the area under the sine wave of the current waveforms at the local and remote ends of the protected line are compared to reach a trip decision.
The present invention is a current differential relay having the capability of detecting all fault types without adjustable settings. Several, individual conventional current differential elements are combined to detect the various fault types.
First, a conventional phase current differential element is used to detect faults involving all three phases of a power system, generally referred to as three-phase faults.
Phase current differential elements operate on the phase currents (A, B, C) of the power signal. Three-phase faults flow through relatively small impedances, such that the fault currents will be relatively large. For example, a power system, which is capable of delivering 5 amps of load current, will typically deliver 20 amps or more of fault current due to a three-phase fault. Typically, a single conventional phase - a current differential element is used for this, or alternatively, three different elements'are used, one for each phase current.
A predetermined threshold is selected for the phase current differential element so that it will reliably detect 5 three--phase faults for a large range of power system application.
possibilities. Such a threshold might. be 1 amp when the power system is capable of delivering 5 amps of load current at the input of the protective relay.
Second, the zero setting relay of the present invention also protects phase-to-phase faults (A-B, B-C and C-A), as well as phase-to-phase-to-ground faults. This is accomplished by using either a conventional negative sequence differential element, or two conventional phase current differential elements. Negative sequence current is determined conventionally via a well-known calculation/determination from the three measured phase currents. The alternative two phase.
current differential elements can either include the phase current differential element used to detect three-phase faults and one additional phase current differential element, or they can be two additional phase current differential elements.
Two-phase faults also, like three-phase faults, create relatively large fault currents. It is thus possible to select a predetermined threshold for the negative sequence current differential element or the phase current differential elements so that they will reliably detect phase-to-phase or phase-to-phase-to-ground faults for a large range of possible power system relay applications. For instance, a threshold of 1 amp could be selected, when the power system is capable of delivering 5 amps of load current to the protective relay.
Third, the relay of the present invention uses a negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence current differential element to detect phase faults involving ground, i.e. single phase-to-ground faults (A-ground, B-ground and C-ground). Since single phase-to-ground faults often exhibit relatively high impedance, i.e. high resistance to current flow, the fault currents generated are often small compared to the load current that can be delivered by the power system. Such faults are typically called high impedance or high resistance faults. The negative sequence and zero sequence differential currents determined by the current differential relay when there is no power system fault are primarily due to line charging current imbalance. Because the line charging current is very small compared to the load currents which can be delivered by the power system, the negative sequence or zero sequence differential current elements can have a very low operational threshold relative to the load current.
Zero sequence current differential elements are also well known, operating on zero sequence current, which again is a conventional determination obtained from measured phase currents.
In one embodiment, a single negative sequence element can be used to detect phase-to-ground faults and also phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults.
Because negative sequence and zero sequence current differential elements can be established with very low thresholds relative to the load current, it is possible to select a threshold for those elements such that they will reliably detect single phase-to-ground faults for a large range of possible power system applications. Such a threshold in one embodiment might be, for instance, O.S amps, if the power system is capable of delivering 5 amps of load current at the input to the protective relay.
Hence, in one embodiment of the zero setting relay of the present invention one conventional phase current differential element for detecting three-phase faults is combined with a negative sequence differential current element for detecting phase-to-phase, phase-to-phase-to-ground and phase-to-ground faults for all three (A, B and C) phases. Both the phase current differential element and the negative sequence current differential element have prefixed thresholds.
The thresholds for the current differential elements are set at the factory, and are hence not adjustable by the protection engineer for a particular application. The thresholds are designed to protect a wide range of possible power system applications, within which the relay will operate r properly to detect faults. Hence, there is no opportunity for an erroneous setting to cause a misoperation of the relay.
As alternative embodiments, two phase current differential elements could be used for protection against three-phase faults and phase-to-phase and .phase- to-phase-to ground faults, or one phase current differential element could be used for three-phase faults and two other phase current differential elements (for a total of three) for phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase to ground faults. In such embodiments, a negative. sequence or zero sequence current differential element could be used to detect phase-to-ground faults. In still another alternative, a phase current differential element could be used for three-phase faults, a negative sequence element could be used for phase-to-phase faults, and another negative sequence element or zero sequence element could be used for phase-to-ground faults.
One particular combination is shown in Figure 2. The three phase currents (A, B and C) are obtained from a power line at the local relay through a power transformer 21 and then 20 filtered at block 22. The filtered currents are then sampled, in a conventional manner, at block 24 and transmitted at block 26 to a remote relay. The local relay receives similar phase current values from the remote relay at 28.
The local phase currents and the remote phase currents are then each applied to three calculation circuits, as shown. The first calculation circuit 30 results in a phase current determination (where the local and remote phase current values are added) with the results applied to a three-phase fault detection circuit 32 with fixed thresholds, as discussed above, such as by a phase current differential element or elements. If the fixed threshold is exceeded, an output signal from circuit 32 is applied to an OR gate 34.
A second calculation circuit 36 in Figure 2 is a negative sequence current calculation circuit (although it could be a phase current determination circuit as well, as discussed above). The output of circuit 36 is applied to a phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground fault detection circuit 40, using a negative sequence current element. If the fixed threshold of the negative sequence element is exceeded, an output signal from circuit 40 is applied to OR gate 34.
Third, the local and remote phase current values are applied to a zero sequence calculation circuit 44 (in the zero sequence current embodiment), the output of which is applied to a single phase-to-ground fault detection circuit 46, using a zero sequence current differential element with a fixed threshold. If the threshold is exceeded by any of the phase-to-ground currents, an output signal from circuit 46 is applied to OR gate 34.
If there are one or more output signals applied to OR
gate 34, an output from OR gate 34 occurs, which is then applied as a trip signal to the associated circuit breaker.
Hence, the present invention is a current differential relay having a wide fault protection capability for a wide range of protection applications, without the need for settings by a protection engineer for a particular application.
Potential misoperations due to incorrect settings are thus avoided.
As also discussed above, another challenge for the protection engineer is the intertie situation in which the protection engineer has access to only one end of the intertie line portion. This is illustrated in Figure 3, in which an intertie line portion 50 is protected by a zero setting current differential relay 52 on one end of the protected line and a traditional adjustable setting current differential relay 54 on the other end of the line. Circuit breakers 56 and 58 are located at the respective ends of the intertie line. The relays 52 and 54 are connected by a bidirectional communication link 64.
As stated above, the challenge for the protection engineer is that when setting changes are made at one relay end of the intertie, operation of the protection scheme may be changed to some extent, resulting in a possible risk of misoperation. Using a zero setting relay 52 at one end of the intertie can help to resolve this particular issue, if that relay in addition is designed to sense, i.e. determine, when it is in fact connected to a conventional current differential relay with adjustable settings, such as shown for the intertie of Figure 3. In the present invention, when relay 52, with no (zero) adjustable settings, does sense such a connection, it will disable itself from performing current differential protection and will only function to sample the local currents and transmit them to the traditional current differential relay with adjustable settings and to receive a trip command from the other relay.
Relay 52 can make such a determination if the traditional relay, i.e. relay 54, is designed to transmit a particular, recognizable signal to the local relay 52. The recognizable signal can take various forms, including for example a particular bit in a data packet or a particular pattern in a data packet. Even a particular format for the data packet can be used, as well as other arrangements- Once the zero setting relay 52 determines it is connected to such a conventional relay, it is designed to go into its non-protection mode. In operation, it will then only determine and transmit local currents to the remote relay, in conventional fashion, such as carried out by elements 21, 22, 24 and 26 of Figure 2.
The conventional adjustable settings relay 54 will use the currents received from the non-protection-functioning zero setting relay 52 along with its own locally measured currents to perform traditional current differential protection, with its own customized settings. If relay 54 determines that a fault exists, it will first trip its local circuit breaker 58 and will also send a trip command signal to the zero setting relay 52.
When relay 52 receives the signal, it will trip its own associated circuit breaker 56.
Even though the zero setting relay 52 does not provide any protection functions, it will trip at the same time or shortly after the time when the traditional current differential relay 54 trips its circuit breaker-due to relay 54 transmitting a trip command. The zero setting relay 52 thus in effect operates in accordance with the settings of the remote relay 54. Accordingly, there will be no misapplication or misoperation of the overall current differential relay system due to misapplied or miscalculated settings in relay 52.
Alternatively, it should be understood that relay 52, while shown as a zero setting relay as discussed above, could also be a conventional current differential relay with adjustable settings, if it is programmed and designed so that 5 when it senses a connection with another. conventional adjustable setting relay on an intertie application,- it disables its own protection functions and operates only to obtain current samples and transmit them to the remote relay, as well as receiving any trip commands from the remote relay and thereafter tripping its 10 associated circuit breaker.
Still further, the relay 52 could be a completely non-protection-function capable device, in effect a teleprotection terminal capable only of obtaining local current values, transmitting them to the remote intertie relay and receiving back trip commands from the remote relay. Such a terminal is still, however, referred to as a relay for the purposes of this application.
Finally, although the application is disclosed in the context of an intertie connection, it could be used in any situation where there is no control over the settings of the remote relay.
Accordingly, a system has been disclosed and claimed which in one. case is capable of detecting a wide variety of faults in a wide range of applications in a power system, without the need for adjustable settings, i.e. a zero setting relay.
In addition, the potential for mismatch in settings for an intertie or similar line portion is overcome by an arrangement involving either a zero setting relay, a conventional relay, or a "relay" in the form of a teleprotection terminal which, when a connection to a conventional, adjustable setting relay is determined, disables its own protection functions, if it has any, provides only sampled current values to the remote relay, and receives only trip commands from the remote relay.
Although a preferred embodiment of the invention has been described for purposes of illustration, it should be understood that various changes, modification and substitutions might be incorporated in the embodiment without departing from the spirit of the invention, which is defined in the claims, which follow.
Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention The present invention is a current differential relay without the capability of, or the need for, conventional adjustable settings. In current differential protection, referring to Figure 1, a "local" relay 12 at one end of a protected portion 13 of a power line obtains phase currents (A, B and C phases) from the power line at that location and further receives such currents obtained by a relay at a remote end of the line, referred to as a remote relay 14. The sum of these remote and local currents is then compared with a "pickup"
setting established for the particular application. Bi-directional communication occurs over a link 16, with sampled currents flowing in both directions. Circuit breakers 17 and 19 are responsive to the relays 12 and 14 to protect the line.
Conventional current differential protection can also be accomplished by phase comparison of the current signals between the relative phases of the remote and local currents, and further, charge comparison, in which the area under the sine wave of the current waveforms at the local and remote ends of the protected line are compared to reach a trip decision.
The present invention is a current differential relay having the capability of detecting all fault types without adjustable settings. Several, individual conventional current differential elements are combined to detect the various fault types.
First, a conventional phase current differential element is used to detect faults involving all three phases of a power system, generally referred to as three-phase faults.
Phase current differential elements operate on the phase currents (A, B, C) of the power signal. Three-phase faults flow through relatively small impedances, such that the fault currents will be relatively large. For example, a power system, which is capable of delivering 5 amps of load current, will typically deliver 20 amps or more of fault current due to a three-phase fault. Typically, a single conventional phase - a current differential element is used for this, or alternatively, three different elements'are used, one for each phase current.
A predetermined threshold is selected for the phase current differential element so that it will reliably detect 5 three--phase faults for a large range of power system application.
possibilities. Such a threshold might. be 1 amp when the power system is capable of delivering 5 amps of load current at the input of the protective relay.
Second, the zero setting relay of the present invention also protects phase-to-phase faults (A-B, B-C and C-A), as well as phase-to-phase-to-ground faults. This is accomplished by using either a conventional negative sequence differential element, or two conventional phase current differential elements. Negative sequence current is determined conventionally via a well-known calculation/determination from the three measured phase currents. The alternative two phase.
current differential elements can either include the phase current differential element used to detect three-phase faults and one additional phase current differential element, or they can be two additional phase current differential elements.
Two-phase faults also, like three-phase faults, create relatively large fault currents. It is thus possible to select a predetermined threshold for the negative sequence current differential element or the phase current differential elements so that they will reliably detect phase-to-phase or phase-to-phase-to-ground faults for a large range of possible power system relay applications. For instance, a threshold of 1 amp could be selected, when the power system is capable of delivering 5 amps of load current to the protective relay.
Third, the relay of the present invention uses a negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence current differential element to detect phase faults involving ground, i.e. single phase-to-ground faults (A-ground, B-ground and C-ground). Since single phase-to-ground faults often exhibit relatively high impedance, i.e. high resistance to current flow, the fault currents generated are often small compared to the load current that can be delivered by the power system. Such faults are typically called high impedance or high resistance faults. The negative sequence and zero sequence differential currents determined by the current differential relay when there is no power system fault are primarily due to line charging current imbalance. Because the line charging current is very small compared to the load currents which can be delivered by the power system, the negative sequence or zero sequence differential current elements can have a very low operational threshold relative to the load current.
Zero sequence current differential elements are also well known, operating on zero sequence current, which again is a conventional determination obtained from measured phase currents.
In one embodiment, a single negative sequence element can be used to detect phase-to-ground faults and also phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults.
Because negative sequence and zero sequence current differential elements can be established with very low thresholds relative to the load current, it is possible to select a threshold for those elements such that they will reliably detect single phase-to-ground faults for a large range of possible power system applications. Such a threshold in one embodiment might be, for instance, O.S amps, if the power system is capable of delivering 5 amps of load current at the input to the protective relay.
Hence, in one embodiment of the zero setting relay of the present invention one conventional phase current differential element for detecting three-phase faults is combined with a negative sequence differential current element for detecting phase-to-phase, phase-to-phase-to-ground and phase-to-ground faults for all three (A, B and C) phases. Both the phase current differential element and the negative sequence current differential element have prefixed thresholds.
The thresholds for the current differential elements are set at the factory, and are hence not adjustable by the protection engineer for a particular application. The thresholds are designed to protect a wide range of possible power system applications, within which the relay will operate r properly to detect faults. Hence, there is no opportunity for an erroneous setting to cause a misoperation of the relay.
As alternative embodiments, two phase current differential elements could be used for protection against three-phase faults and phase-to-phase and .phase- to-phase-to ground faults, or one phase current differential element could be used for three-phase faults and two other phase current differential elements (for a total of three) for phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase to ground faults. In such embodiments, a negative. sequence or zero sequence current differential element could be used to detect phase-to-ground faults. In still another alternative, a phase current differential element could be used for three-phase faults, a negative sequence element could be used for phase-to-phase faults, and another negative sequence element or zero sequence element could be used for phase-to-ground faults.
One particular combination is shown in Figure 2. The three phase currents (A, B and C) are obtained from a power line at the local relay through a power transformer 21 and then 20 filtered at block 22. The filtered currents are then sampled, in a conventional manner, at block 24 and transmitted at block 26 to a remote relay. The local relay receives similar phase current values from the remote relay at 28.
The local phase currents and the remote phase currents are then each applied to three calculation circuits, as shown. The first calculation circuit 30 results in a phase current determination (where the local and remote phase current values are added) with the results applied to a three-phase fault detection circuit 32 with fixed thresholds, as discussed above, such as by a phase current differential element or elements. If the fixed threshold is exceeded, an output signal from circuit 32 is applied to an OR gate 34.
A second calculation circuit 36 in Figure 2 is a negative sequence current calculation circuit (although it could be a phase current determination circuit as well, as discussed above). The output of circuit 36 is applied to a phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground fault detection circuit 40, using a negative sequence current element. If the fixed threshold of the negative sequence element is exceeded, an output signal from circuit 40 is applied to OR gate 34.
Third, the local and remote phase current values are applied to a zero sequence calculation circuit 44 (in the zero sequence current embodiment), the output of which is applied to a single phase-to-ground fault detection circuit 46, using a zero sequence current differential element with a fixed threshold. If the threshold is exceeded by any of the phase-to-ground currents, an output signal from circuit 46 is applied to OR gate 34.
If there are one or more output signals applied to OR
gate 34, an output from OR gate 34 occurs, which is then applied as a trip signal to the associated circuit breaker.
Hence, the present invention is a current differential relay having a wide fault protection capability for a wide range of protection applications, without the need for settings by a protection engineer for a particular application.
Potential misoperations due to incorrect settings are thus avoided.
As also discussed above, another challenge for the protection engineer is the intertie situation in which the protection engineer has access to only one end of the intertie line portion. This is illustrated in Figure 3, in which an intertie line portion 50 is protected by a zero setting current differential relay 52 on one end of the protected line and a traditional adjustable setting current differential relay 54 on the other end of the line. Circuit breakers 56 and 58 are located at the respective ends of the intertie line. The relays 52 and 54 are connected by a bidirectional communication link 64.
As stated above, the challenge for the protection engineer is that when setting changes are made at one relay end of the intertie, operation of the protection scheme may be changed to some extent, resulting in a possible risk of misoperation. Using a zero setting relay 52 at one end of the intertie can help to resolve this particular issue, if that relay in addition is designed to sense, i.e. determine, when it is in fact connected to a conventional current differential relay with adjustable settings, such as shown for the intertie of Figure 3. In the present invention, when relay 52, with no (zero) adjustable settings, does sense such a connection, it will disable itself from performing current differential protection and will only function to sample the local currents and transmit them to the traditional current differential relay with adjustable settings and to receive a trip command from the other relay.
Relay 52 can make such a determination if the traditional relay, i.e. relay 54, is designed to transmit a particular, recognizable signal to the local relay 52. The recognizable signal can take various forms, including for example a particular bit in a data packet or a particular pattern in a data packet. Even a particular format for the data packet can be used, as well as other arrangements- Once the zero setting relay 52 determines it is connected to such a conventional relay, it is designed to go into its non-protection mode. In operation, it will then only determine and transmit local currents to the remote relay, in conventional fashion, such as carried out by elements 21, 22, 24 and 26 of Figure 2.
The conventional adjustable settings relay 54 will use the currents received from the non-protection-functioning zero setting relay 52 along with its own locally measured currents to perform traditional current differential protection, with its own customized settings. If relay 54 determines that a fault exists, it will first trip its local circuit breaker 58 and will also send a trip command signal to the zero setting relay 52.
When relay 52 receives the signal, it will trip its own associated circuit breaker 56.
Even though the zero setting relay 52 does not provide any protection functions, it will trip at the same time or shortly after the time when the traditional current differential relay 54 trips its circuit breaker-due to relay 54 transmitting a trip command. The zero setting relay 52 thus in effect operates in accordance with the settings of the remote relay 54. Accordingly, there will be no misapplication or misoperation of the overall current differential relay system due to misapplied or miscalculated settings in relay 52.
Alternatively, it should be understood that relay 52, while shown as a zero setting relay as discussed above, could also be a conventional current differential relay with adjustable settings, if it is programmed and designed so that 5 when it senses a connection with another. conventional adjustable setting relay on an intertie application,- it disables its own protection functions and operates only to obtain current samples and transmit them to the remote relay, as well as receiving any trip commands from the remote relay and thereafter tripping its 10 associated circuit breaker.
Still further, the relay 52 could be a completely non-protection-function capable device, in effect a teleprotection terminal capable only of obtaining local current values, transmitting them to the remote intertie relay and receiving back trip commands from the remote relay. Such a terminal is still, however, referred to as a relay for the purposes of this application.
Finally, although the application is disclosed in the context of an intertie connection, it could be used in any situation where there is no control over the settings of the remote relay.
Accordingly, a system has been disclosed and claimed which in one. case is capable of detecting a wide variety of faults in a wide range of applications in a power system, without the need for adjustable settings, i.e. a zero setting relay.
In addition, the potential for mismatch in settings for an intertie or similar line portion is overcome by an arrangement involving either a zero setting relay, a conventional relay, or a "relay" in the form of a teleprotection terminal which, when a connection to a conventional, adjustable setting relay is determined, disables its own protection functions, if it has any, provides only sampled current values to the remote relay, and receives only trip commands from the remote relay.
Although a preferred embodiment of the invention has been described for purposes of illustration, it should be understood that various changes, modification and substitutions might be incorporated in the embodiment without departing from the spirit of the invention, which is defined in the claims, which follow.
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1. A current differential protective relay without user adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising:
at least one phase current differential element, having a first non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion, to detect three-phase faults on the selected line portion and for providing a first output signal when said predetermined threshold is exceeded by three-phase current;
a first negative sequence current differential element or two phase current differential elements, having a second non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded, wherein said two phase current differential elements include said one phase current differential element for detecting three-phase faults, or two additional phase current differential elements; and a second negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence differential element, having a third non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect individual phase-to-ground faults and providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded, wherein if one of the negative sequence current differential elements is used, it is either the first negative sequence current differential element used for detecting phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults or the second negative sequence current differential element, wherein the current differential elements include no adjustable operational settings.
at least one phase current differential element, having a first non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion, to detect three-phase faults on the selected line portion and for providing a first output signal when said predetermined threshold is exceeded by three-phase current;
a first negative sequence current differential element or two phase current differential elements, having a second non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded, wherein said two phase current differential elements include said one phase current differential element for detecting three-phase faults, or two additional phase current differential elements; and a second negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence differential element, having a third non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect individual phase-to-ground faults and providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded, wherein if one of the negative sequence current differential elements is used, it is either the first negative sequence current differential element used for detecting phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults or the second negative sequence current differential element, wherein the current differential elements include no adjustable operational settings.
2. The protective relay of claim 1, including a gate function responsive to any one of said first, second and third output signals to produce a trip signal for a circuit breaker on the selected line portion.
3. The protective relay of claim 1, wherein the at least one phase differential element includes a first phase current differential element for detecting three-phase faults, a second phase current differential element and a third phase current differential element for detecting phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults.
4. The protective relay of claim 1, including the first negative sequence current differential element used for detecting phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and the second negative sequence current differential element for detecting phase-to-ground faults.
5. The protective relay of claim 1, including the first negative sequence current differential element for detecting phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and the zero sequence current differential element for detecting phase-to-ground faults.
6. A current differential protective relay without user adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system: comprising:
a first current differential protection function, having a first non-user predetermined, fixed threshold, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay on the selected line portion and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded by three phase current;
a second current differential protection function, having a second non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational netting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a third current differential protection function, having a third non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational netting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and for providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
a first current differential protection function, having a first non-user predetermined, fixed threshold, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay on the selected line portion and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded by three phase current;
a second current differential protection function, having a second non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational netting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a third current differential protection function, having a third non-user predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational netting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and for providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
7. The protective relay of claim 6, wherein said first differential protection function includes at least one phase differential current element, wherein said second current differential function includes a negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or at least one additional phase current differential element, and wherein said third current differential function includes a negative sequence element or a zero sequence element responsive to negative sequence current values and zero sequence current values, respectively.
8. A current differential protective relay without adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising:
a first phase current differential element, having a first predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion, to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said predetermined threshold is exceeded by three-phase current;
a second phase current differential element and a third phase current differential element having a combined second predetermined, fixed threshold value, collectively responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for collectively providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence differential element having a third predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents, and said remote phase currents to detect individual phase-to-ground faults and providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
a first phase current differential element, having a first predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion, to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said predetermined threshold is exceeded by three-phase current;
a second phase current differential element and a third phase current differential element having a combined second predetermined, fixed threshold value, collectively responsive to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase faults and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for collectively providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a negative sequence current differential element or a zero sequence differential element having a third predetermined, fixed threshold value, responsive to said local phase currents, and said remote phase currents to detect individual phase-to-ground faults and providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
9. The protective relay of claim 8, wherein the negative sequence current differential element is used to detect individual phase-to-ground faults.
10. The protective relay of claim 8, wherein the zero sequence differential element is used to detect individual phase-to-ground faults.
11. A current differential protective relay without adjustable operational settings for use in protecting a selected line portion of a power system, comprising:
at least one phase current differential element, having a first predetermined, fixed threshold, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay on the selected line portion and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded by three phase current;
a first negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or at least one additional phase current differential element, having a second predetermined, fixed threshold value but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a second negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or a zero sequence current element responsive to zero sequence current values, having a third predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and for providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
at least one phase current differential element, having a first predetermined, fixed threshold, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to phase currents from the power system at a local location of the protective relay on the selected line portion and to phase currents from a remote relay on the selected line portion to detect three-phase faults on the line portion and for providing a first output signal when said first predetermined threshold is exceeded by three phase current;
a first negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or at least one additional phase current differential element, having a second predetermined, fixed threshold value but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults and for providing a second output signal when said second predetermined threshold is exceeded; and a second negative sequence current differential element responsive to negative sequence current values or a zero sequence current element responsive to zero sequence current values, having a third predetermined, fixed threshold value, but no adjustable operational setting capability, responsive to signals related to said local phase currents and said remote phase currents to detect phase-to-ground faults and for providing a third output signal when said third predetermined threshold is exceeded.
12. The protective relay of claim 11, wherein the first negative sequence current differential element is used to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults.
13. The protective relay of claim 11, wherein at least one additional phase current differential element is used to detect phase-to-phase and phase-to-phase-to-ground faults.
14. The protective relay of claim 11, wherein the second negative sequence current differential element is used to detect phase-to-ground faults.
15. The protective relay of claim 11, wherein the zero sequence current element is used to detect phase-to-ground faults.
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