The inrush currents of transformers are among the main causes which compromise performance protection relays in practice. Therefore, discrimination between and faults is very important. A new technique proposed this paper to distinguish internal fault other normal transient conditions (such as current). Accordingly, a operational characteristic defined for feature extraction classification inst...

Transformers are major elements of any power systems. Normally they must be properly protected by differential relays. This protection system should be precise and reliable via implementation of strong algorithms that able to differentiate between faulted and unfaulted condition to fully grantee of power continuity. This system should be able to detect the non-faulted condition, such as inrush ...

The reliability of the transformer differential protection is under threat from multiple interferences, including inrush condition, current saturation and arc fault condition. For improvement, a new method proposed to discriminate conditions other non-fault conditions. Firstly, identifies unidirectional via index, since only it exhibits characteristic. Then, remaining signals are classified by ...

The restricted earth fault (REF) relay is a type of differential protection which is used for detection of internal ground faults of power transformers. But, during external faults and transformer energization conditions, the probability of current transformer (CT) saturation increases. Thus, the spurious differential current due to CT saturation, can lead to REF relay maloperation. In this pap...