Inrush current is a very important phenomenon which occurs in transformer during energization at no load. It depends on several factors like magnetizing properties of magnetic material, resistant and inductance of primary winding, supply frequency, switching angle of circuit breaker, applied voltage etc. Objective of this study is to estimate the maximum value of transformer inrush current. Mea...

A new approach for protection of power transformer is presented using a time-frequency transform known as Wavelet transform. Different operating conditions such as inrush, Normal, load, External fault and internal fault current are sampled and processed to obtain wavelet coefficients. Different Operating conditions provide variation in wavelet coefficients. Features like energy and Standard dev...

This paper proposed a new wavelet based method to identify inrush currents and to distinguish it from power system faults. The proposed algorithm extracts fault and inrush generated transient signals using DWT. Transient current signals at both sides of a transformer are firstly captured. The wavelet transform is a relatively new and powerful tool in the analysis of power transformer transient ...

This study presents a novel technique based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) for the classification of transient phenomena in power transformer. The SVM is a powerful method for statistical classification of data. The input data to this SVM for training comprises fault current and magnetizing inrush current. SVM classifier produces significant accuracy for classification of transient phenomena i...

A field-circuit method for simulation of transients in a single-phase, two-winding transformer has been given. The magnetic field excited by the winding currents has been analyzed, and integral parameters have been determined. Including the equivalent circuit parameters and the magnetic residual flux in the silicon steel core, the developed method has been implemented for the transitional state...

For the current transformers (CTs) on the delta side measure the line current instead of the phase current, line current differential protection is adopted in transformers connected in wye-delta mode currently. However, the symmetry feature of inrush current in line current differential protection may invalidate the inrush current restrained criterion. A calculating method of current through de...

Transformer inrush currents were traditionally evaluated by means of Fourier analysis. Such approach affects the design of transformer differential relays concerning their immunity to inrush currents. This paper presents a statistical tool named maximum entropy method (MEM), which seems to provide a reliable and computationally efficient tool for identification inrush currents on two different ...

Among the most noticeable root causes of improper performance in power transformers, internal short circuit faults can be noted and if not quickly be identified and addressed in the accepted time interval, irrecoverable damages such as interruption or even collapse of the network connected to the power transformer would happen. In this contribution, three-phase transformer behaviors under magne...

Second harmonic restraint is still commonly used to discriminate fault current and transformer inrush conditions. Such approach, however, has some disadvantages and limitations. Therefore various other criteria signals for power transformer inrush discrimination have been analysed. The paper presents a new multi-criteria stabilization algorithm that employs fuzzy reasoning technique for better ...