Electric Power ›› 2018, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (11): 96-103.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.201805084

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Influence of the Combination-Type Grounding Scheme on Voltage-Injected Stator Ground Fault Protection

ZHANG Qixue1, WANG Xiangheng2, CHEN Jiasheng1, XU Tianle1, LI Huazhong1, WANG Guang1, CHEN Jun1   

  1. 1. NR Electric Co., Ltd., Nanjing 211102, China;
    2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2018-05-15 Revised:2018-09-27 Online:2018-11-05 Published:2018-11-16

Abstract: By drawing upon the advantages of the resonant grounding method, a combination-type grounding scheme is adopted for large-sized generator to reduce the ground fault current, in which the inductor is installed in parallel with the load resistor on the LV-side of the neutral grounding transformer (NGT). In the paper, a numerical simulation model is established by using Matlab Simulink. The quasi-distributed capacitance model is used to simulate the stator ground fault protection, and the algorithm used for the protection devices is adopted to calculate the voltage-injected stator ground fault protection. A conventional high-resistance grounding scheme and three combination-type grounding schemes are designed, and simulations are carried out for the large-sized generator of Baihetan hydropower station in China. By comparing the simulation results, a study is made on the influence of the combination-type grounding scheme on the voltage-injected grounding protection. The results show that adding parallel inductor will worsen the calculation results of the ground fault resistance; the parallel inductor installed on the high voltage side of the NGT is most favorable to the voltage-injected stator ground fault protection, but the equipment cost will be increased; within the limited amount of compensation current by the parallel inductor, the greater the degree of detuning is, the better the measurement of the ground fault resistance is.

Key words: large-sized generator, single-phase-to-ground fault, high-resistance ground, resonant ground, stator ground fault protection, voltage-injected

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