Electric Power ›› 2022, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (5): 76-83.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202110027

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A Setting Optimization Strategy for Distance Protection Ⅱ after Connection of Synchronous Condensers

LI Dongsheng1, HAO Liangliang1, GUO Zhilin1, CAO Hong2, WANG Xingguo2   

  1. 1. School of Electrical Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;
    2. China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing 100192, China
  • Received:2021-10-14 Revised:2021-12-06 Online:2022-05-28 Published:2022-05-18
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Power Grid Safety and Energy Conservation (China Electric Power Research Institute) (No.JBB51201901229), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.U2066210) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.E19JB500060).

Abstract: The large-scale access of synchronous condensers (SCs) to the power grid will reduce the protection range of the distance protection section Ⅱ, and reasonable optimization of the protection setting is a feasible way to solve this problem. For this reason, based on an investigation of the influence of the SCs connection on the distance protection section Ⅱ, a setting value optimization strategy is proposed to increase the protection range of the distance protection section Ⅱ. Firstly, the steady-state current and short-circuit current of SCs are analyzed, and the influence of the SCs access on the protection range under the traditional distance protection Ⅱ setting is investigated from the perspective of the protection range. And then, for the purpose of reasonable selection of the protection range setting value and accurate calculation of branch coefficients, a setting value optimization strategy of distance protection section Ⅱ is proposed, which effectively improves the protection range of the distance protection section Ⅱ after SCs access. Finally, a simulation analysis is conducted on the setting value optimization strategy proposed in this paper, and the results show that the protection range obtained by the proposed method is less affected by the number of SCs and the impedance ratio of adjacent lines, and can be close to the preset value.

Key words: synchronous condenser, short current, distance protection, protection range, branch coefficient