Electric Power ›› 2021, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (12): 121-127,136.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202011097

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Internal Short Circuit Protection for Rotor Winding of Variable Speed Pumped-Storage Generator-Motor

CHEN Jun1, YE Hong2, LI Huazhong1, LI Jianchun1, CHEN Xiaogang3, WANG Kai1   

  1. 1. NR Electric Co., Ltd., Nanjing 211102, China;
    2. State Grid Xinyuan Co., Ltd., Beijing 100761, China;
    3. State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., Ltd., Hangzhou 310007, China
  • Received:2020-11-23 Revised:2021-07-29 Online:2021-12-05 Published:2021-12-16
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by Science and Technology Project of SGCC (Research on Independent Engineering Application and Key Technology of Large Variable Speed Pumped-Storage Unit, No.521104180013)

Abstract: To provide a solution to the imperfect protection problem of variable speed pumped-storage units when the rotor winding has internal short circuit faults, a stator-side branch circulation current based protection method is proposed for internal short circuit of AC excitation motor rotor winding. Based on the multi-loop theory, the key technologies for internal short circuit protection are studied in terms of digital filter design, protection criteria, error prevention measures. A protection prototype is developed and a dynamic simulation experiment platform is established for its verification. The experimental results show that the proposed method can reliably reflect the inter-turn and phase-phase short-circuit faults of the rotor winding. The protection devices developed based on the method will be applied in a variable speed pumped storage unit in China.

Key words: variable speed pumped storage unit, AC excitation, rotor winding, inter-turn short-circuit, phase-phase short-circuit