Power transformers with superconducting windings need a protection system to prevent damage to the low-loss superconducting winding by an abnormally high current. The generally accepted protection technique which uses auxiliary coils has been analysed using a network representation. The current distribution between main and auxiliary coil is expressed in terms of geometrical parameters. Experim...

This paper presents the use of ANN as a pattern classifier for differential protection of power transformer, which makes the discrimination among normal, magnetizing inrush, over-excitation, external fault and internal fault currents. The Back Propagation Neural Network Algorithm and Genetic Algorithm are used to train the multi-layered feed forward neural network and simulated results are comp...

With the rapid development of wind energy, relay protection for large-scale wind farms has been attracting some researchers, due to the absence of standards. Based on the large-scale doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind farms located in Gansu Province, China, this paper studies the differential protection for the outgoing power transformer of large-scale DFIG-based wind farms. Accor...

Risk assessment for power transformer is an important means to guide the condition based maintenance of transformer and enhance the reliability of power system operation, but also to strengthen the power transformer to provide an important basis for quality control. In this paper, an index system for comprehensive evaluation of transformer is put forward and a risk assessment model for power tr...

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 ...

Power utilities are aware of the specific characteristics and requirements for their network. For this reason, they may require additional functionality from the protective devices and secondary systems included in their power network. Therefore ECEPA requires a number of specific tests to be conducted on the protection system proposed for a particular application to prove the suitability of th...

This paper presents an improvement of digital differential relay reliability for protecting a large power transfer is discussed. First, the Fourier sine and cosine coefficients required for fundamental, second third and fifth harmonies determination have been calculated using rectangular transfer technique. Then, these harmonics have been used in harmonics restrain and blocking techniques used ...