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Hybrid Passive-Overcurrent Relay for Detection of Faults in Low-Voltage DC Grids

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 1129-1138

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2015.2477482

Keywords

Discrete wavelet transform (DWT); high-resistance fault; low-voltage dc (LVdc) grid; overcurrent protection

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  1. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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Detection of high-resistance faults on meshed low-voltage dc grids poses a challenge, as such faults have very low fault current magnitudes. This paper proposes a hybrid passive-overcurrent relay to overcome this problem. The proposed relay consists of one current and one voltage transducer, as well as two passive elements: 1) an inductor; and 2) a capacitor. For bolted and relatively low-resistance faults, the relay uses a simple overcurrent function to detect the resultant high fault current magnitudes within 2 ms. On the other hand, for relatively high-resistance faults, a real-time discrete wavelet transform is used to detect the voltage transients generated by the relay passive elements in less than 5 ms. Furthermore, the proposed relay is inherently capable of identifying the type of fault. The proposed approach relies on local-bus measurements to detect and classify various types of faults with resistance up to 200 ohms. Analytical modeling proves that the proposed approach is system independent. Testing the hybrid passive-overcurrent relay on a +/- 750 V meshed TN-S dc grid reveals that the proposed relay is fast, sensitive, and selective under various conditions.

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