KR20060132420A - Ground fault protective relaying scheme using distance relay in traction power supply system - Google Patents

Abstract

A ground fault protective relaying scheme using a distance relay in a traction power supply system is provided to intercept only power of an accident section by easily detecting an accident point. A ground fault protective relaying scheme using a distance relay in a traction power supply system includes a 64P relay and di/dt distance relays(20,22,24,26). The 64p relay shorts a ground switch when a ground fault accident occurs in the traction power supply system. The di/dt distance relays(20,22,24,26) trip-control circuit breakers(30,32,34,36) by calculating a distance to the point of ground fault accident based on the amount of change of feeding line current as the ground switch shorts.

Description

Ground fault protection relaying scheme using distance relay in traction power supply system for ground fault protection in DC feed system for electric railway

1 is a configuration diagram of a ground fault protection device in a DC power supply system for a general electric railway.

Figure 2 is a feed system applied to the ground fault protection relay system according to the present invention in a DC power feeding system for electric railway.

Figure 3 is an illustration of a set protection zone of the ground fault protection relay applied to the ground fault protection relay method in the DC power supply system for electric railway according to the present invention.

4 is a flow chart illustrating a ground fault protection method in a DC power feeding system for an electric railway according to the present invention, using the set values of FIG. 3 as an example.

* Explanation of simple symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10, 12, 14. Rectifier

20, 22, 24, 26 .. di / dt distance relay

30, 32, 34, 36..breakers

40, 42 .. Railway Load

The present invention relates to a ground fault protection relay system and a control method thereof in a DC power feed system for electric railway, and more specifically, if a ground fault occurs in a DC feed system for electric railway, a ground fault section is identified as well as a ground fault. The present invention relates to a ground fault protection relay system and a control method thereof in a DC feed system for electric railways that can easily detect spots.

An electric railway is a form of receiving electric power necessary for driving a vehicle by using a overhead wire or a third rail and a rail as a transmission line of electric power. The power supply type for supplying electric power to a vehicle is largely divided into a DC power supply method and an AC power supply method. Domestic electric railways use a DC power supply system.

The DC power supply system converts a special high voltage AC electric power received from a general electric power system into a direct current in a substation and supplies DC power to a tram line.

The DC feeder system is equipped with substation facilities at appropriate sections in order to stably supply the prescribed voltage to the end of a long tram line, and each substation has various ground faults due to unexpected accidents during vehicle operation. In order to protect the facilities and to ensure public safety, ground fault protection relays are installed to determine the accident and to cut off the power supply promptly.

1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a ground fault protection relay installed in each substation in a DC power supply system for an electric railway powered by the DC power supply system. Such a ground fault protection relay is capable of shutting off the power supply in response to a ground fault occurring at a long distance outside the protection zone as well as a short distance in the substation protection zone, regardless of a failure distance.

By the way, the conventional ground fault protection relay system as described above can determine whether a ground fault has occurred, but there is a problem that can not determine in which section the ground fault occurred.

In other words, if the ground potential becomes higher than the DC negative bus potential due to ground fault, the ground current flows through the ground resistor of the ground protection relay installed in each substation, so it is impossible to know in which section the ground fault occurred. In addition, there was a problem that the power of the healthy section is not cut off ground fault.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, if a ground fault occurs in the DC power supply system for the electric railway, it is possible to identify the ground fault zone in which the ground fault occurred based on the fault current according to the ground fault It is an object of the present invention to provide a ground fault protection relay system and a control method thereof in a DC feed system for an electric railway that can easily detect the power of an accident section while allowing power to be normally supplied.

Ground fault protection relay system in the electric railway DC feed system according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a 64P relay for shorting the ground switch when a ground fault occurs in the electric railway DC feed system; It is characterized in that it comprises a di / dt distance relay for tripping the circuit breaker by calculating the distance to the ground fault point based on the change amount of the feeder line current is formed as the ground switch is short-circuited.

In addition, the ground fault protection relay method in the DC feed system for electric railway according to the present invention comprises the steps of determining whether a ground fault occurred in the DC feed system for electric railway; Shorting the ground switch when a ground fault occurs; Calculating a change amount of a feeder current formed as the ground switch is short-circuited; And calculating a distance to the ground fault point based on the calculated change amount of current.

In addition, the distance calculation in the distance calculation step is the following equation,

(Where D is the distance to the accident site, if is the feeder ground fault current, E is the feeder voltage, L is the reactance of the line, and R is the line resistance).

In addition, the distance calculation in the distance calculation step, if it is difficult to directly perform E / L measurement, the following equation, that is,

Where D is the distance to the accident site, if is the feeder ground fault current, E is the feed voltage, L is the reactance of the line, R is the line resistance, and SS is the time the if reaches steady state, Time Constant Denotes a time constant.).

In addition, the ground fault protection relay method in the DC feed system for electric railway according to the present invention in a state in which a protective zone for trip control of the circuit breaker is set in advance according to the ground fault in the DC feed system for electric railway, a ground fault occurs Shorting the ground switch; Calculating a distance to a ground fault point by detecting a change amount of a feeder current formed as the ground switch is short-circuited; And tripping control of the circuit breaker when the distance to the ground fault point calculated in the step is included in a range of a preset protection zone.

The circuit breaker trip control step may include: a first step of tripping the circuit breaker when the distance to the ground fault point calculated in the ground fault distance calculation step is included in a preset protection zone 1; If the distance to the ground fault point calculated in the ground fault distance calculation step is not included in the range of the protected zone 1, but falls within a preset range of the protected zone 2, the breaker after the delay time associated with the protected zone 2 has elapsed. A second step of controlling trip; If the distance to the ground fault point calculated in the ground fault distance calculation step is not included in the range of the protected zone 2, it is considered to be included in the range of the protected zone 3, and the breaker is tripped after the delay time associated with the protected zone 3 has elapsed. It is characterized by comprising a third step.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a DC power supply system diagram applied to the ground fault protection relay system in the DC power supply system for electric railway according to the present invention, 64P relay, rectifier, di / dt distance relay, which is provided in one substation to facilitate understanding of the present invention, The circuit breaker is shown.

The di / dt distance relays 20, 22, 24, and 26 applied to the ground fault protection relay system in the DC feed system for electric railway according to the present invention measure the di / dt (time = 0) value of the feeder current and the accident point. Calculate the distance to and trip the breaker (one of 30, 32, 34, 36) if the distance is within the main reserve, or after the appropriate time delay if it is outside the main reserve. The tripping operation of one of the two circuits, 36, provides protection coordination with the di / dt distance relay installed in the adjacent substation.

Here, the occurrence of the ground fault is made by a 64P relay, the 64P relay detects the potential difference between the rectifier negative electrode and the ground, and if the potential difference is equal to or greater than a preset reference potential difference, the ground fault is determined. If the ground switch (Ground Switch) is shorted.

Sufficient fault current must flow in order for the di / dt distance relays 20, 22, 24, and 26 to operate. For this purpose, a grounding switch is installed between the negative electrode of the rectifiers 10, 12 and 14 and the ground. In the event of an accident, the 64P relay immediately short-circuits the ground switch to allow sufficient ground current for the operation of the di / dt range relays 20, 22, 24, and 26 to flow.

However, any di / dt distance relay (20, 22 of the short-circuit of the grounding switch is the only ground faults branch line information only that the ground incident plurality of di / dt distance relay (20, 22, 24, 26) , 24, 26) does not give information about whether the occurrence occurred in the main protection zone, the di / dt distance relay (20, 22, 24, 26) according to the present invention by calculating the point of the ground fault occurs The control signal is output to determine whether or not the protection zone is a magnetic zone and to trip control the circuit breakers 30, 32, 34, and 36 installed in the magnetic protection zone.

Therefore, the di / dt distance relay 20, 22, 24, 26 according to the present invention can determine the accident location, so it is installed with a grounding switch, the circuit breaker (30, 32, 34, closest to the grounding accident of the feed line) 36) It can increase the reliability of the system by protecting the system by selecting and blocking only the power supply and maintaining the power supply of the healthy section.

The di / dt distance relays 20, 22, 24, and 26 according to the present invention calculate the distance to the ground fault point based on the amount of change in the feeder current formed as the ground switch is shorted. Explain.

When a ground fault occurs in a DC power supply system for an electric railway and a ground switch is short-circuited, the ground fault current generally changes as shown in Equation 1 below.

Here, if the transmission line ground fault current, R is the resistance of the line, E is the power supply voltage, L represents the reactance of the line.

Subsequently, the rate of change of the fault current when the ground switch is short-circuited due to a ground fault is as shown in Equations 2 and 3 below.

Where D is the distance to the accident site, if is the feeder ground fault current, R is the line resistance, E is the feeder voltage, and L is the line's reactance.

As shown in Equation 4, the distance to the ground fault point may be calculated based on a value obtained by dividing the feed voltage by the increase rate of the fault current (after the ground switch is closed). In addition, since the value determined by Equation 4 is independent of the resistance R , the distance to the ground fault point can be calculated regardless of the ground resistance value at the time of ground fault.

The di / dt distance relay 20, 22, 24, 26 according to the present invention calculates the distance to the accident point by measuring or calculating [di / dt] t = 0 as shown in Equation 4 above. , in practice, it is possible to measure the [di / dt] t = 0 because the direct measurement of the very difficult indirectly by the equation 5 and equation 6 to [di / dt] t = 0 . If we get E / L value, we can get L value. If we know L value, we can get distance to ground fault.

Here, D is the distance to the accident site, SS is the time from if the transient state to the steady state (Steady State), Time Constant represents the time constant of the accident transient current caused by the ground fault.

That is, if the steady state value of the fault current caused by the ground fault is obtained, and the time to reach a constant ratio of the steady state value (for example, 63.21% in case of time constant) is measured, E / L can be obtained as shown in Equation 5 above. . In the above Equation 5, although the time constant is used as the time to reach a constant ratio, other values may be used.

In addition, since the value E / L determined by the above Equations 3 to 5 is independent of the line resistance R , it indicates the distance to the ground fault point regardless of the ground resistance value at the time of the ground fault, so that a high resistance ground fault is easy. Can be detected.

On the other hand, Figure 3 is an illustration of the set value of the ground fault protection relay system and the di / dt distance relay 20, 22, 24, 26 applied in the DC power supply system for the electric railway according to the present invention. In fact, two or more feed lines may exist between adjacent substations, but only one feed line is shown in this drawing for explanation.

The di / dt distance relays 20, 22, 24, 26 according to the present invention are installed at each substation and at each feed line, Figure 3 shows the di / dt distance relays 20, 22, 24, 26 according to the present invention. In order to explain the multiple protection zones set in the drawing, only one feed line between the first substation Sub_A and the first substation Sub_A and the adjacent second substation Sub_B is shown. The multiple protection zone is an important factor in determining whether the di / dt distance relays 20, 22, 24, and 26 are operated, and the di / dt distance relays 20, 22, 24, and 26 are grounded within the set protection zone. When an accident occurs, the trip control is output to the circuit breakers 30, 32, 34, and 36. In addition, through the time delays associated with each protected area, protection coordination is achieved between the di / dt distance relays of adjacent substations.

Di / dt distance relay that is installed in each feed line of the substation (20, 22, 24, 26) is a there is a reserve limit the working distance is set as, respective di / dt distance relay (20, 22, shown in Figure 3 , 24, 26) is to set the operating distance of 80% as the protection zone or the 200% operating distance as the protection zone based on the distance between two adjacent substations (Sub_A and Sub_B). Etc. can be adjusted according to the user's convenience.

The operation of the di / dt distance relays 20, 22, 24, and 26 will be described in more detail.

When the protection zone is set at 80% of the distance to the substation Sub_B from the di / dt distance relay 20 installed in the first substation Sub_A, the di / dt distance relay 20 generates a ground fault. If it detects the unconditionally outputs a signal requesting a trip to the breaker 30 in the main protection area.

If the di / dt distance relay 20 is set to 200% of the distance to the adjacent substation Sub_B, the di / dt distance relay 20 is located in its own jurisdiction even if a ground fault is detected. After waiting for a predetermined time to elapse without immediately outputting the trip request signal to the breaker 30, the trip signal is output to the corresponding breaker 30 when a ground fault is detected.

Next, a ground fault protection method in the DC power feeding system for an electric railway according to the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 4. In the following descriptions, 64P relays, di / dt distance relays, and breakers are installed in all substations, and their reference numerals are omitted.

First, in the ground fault protection relay system according to the present invention, 64P is installed to detect a ground fault based on the potential difference between the negative bus and the ground, and to short-circuit the ground switch installed in the rectifier negative electrode when the ground fault is detected. have. In addition, the di / dt distance relay according to the present invention can set the protection zone according to the distance.

As described above, the protection zone may be expressed as a percentage of the distance between two adjacent substations. For example, the protection zone is 80% of the distance between the two substations, Zone 1 (200), 200% of the distance between the two substations, Zone 3 May be set to a part not included in protected area 2, which may set up one protected area or two or more protected areas.

In addition, the di / dt distance relay has a delay time set in relation to the protection zone 2 and the protection zone 3, the delay time is the time to be delayed until the trip control when the ground fault occurs This delay time is set for protection coordination with di / dt range relays in adjacent substations.

As described above, if a ground fault occurs at any point of the DC feed system for the electric railway in the state where a protection zone is set in each di / dt distance relay, a potential difference (VGN) occurs between the rectifier negative electrode and the ground. The relay determines whether or not the potential difference VGN exceeds a preset reference full position V_set (S10).

As a result of the determination (S10), when the potential difference VGN exceeds the reference value V_set, the 64P relay short-circuits the ground switch installed at the negative electrode of the rectifier (S12).

Subsequently, the di / dt distance relay detects a change amount of the feeder current formed by the shorting of the ground switch. The detection of the amount of change in the current is performed by Equations 1 to 6 as described above.

Subsequently, the di / dt distance relay determines whether the distance to the ground fault point according to the amount of change of the detected current is included in the area range of the protection zone 1 as described above (S14).

As a result of the determination (S14), the di / dt distance relay outputs a trip control signal to the corresponding circuit breaker in its jurisdiction when the ground fault point is within the range of the protection zone 1 (S16) and the ground fault point is protected. If it is not within the scope of Zone 1, proceed as follows:

Subsequently, if the ground fault point is not included in the protection zone 1 range, the di / dt distance relay determines whether the ground failure point is included in the protection zone 2 (S18).

As a result of the determination (S18), the di / dt distance relay determines whether the ground fault condition continues if the ground fault point is included in the range of the protected area 2 (S20), and the ground fault is connected to the protected area 2. If it is determined whether it is maintained in excess of one delay time (S22), and if a ground fault is maintained in excess of the first delay time, a trip control signal is output to a corresponding circuit breaker installed in a feed line of itself (S24). Here, the determination of the ground fault is performed by the change of the current Ig value flowing through the ground switch shown in FIG. This determination method depends on the characteristics of the system.When the load current feedback circuit is formed through the third track with good load insulation, the maximum leakage current Ig_set value is set in the ground current and the Ig value is set in advance. can be determined for a state than the Ig_set value to ground state, the running rail is in advance with respect to the ground the switch current to a relatively large leakage current from, the running rail when used as a feedback circuit of the load current (- △ I It is possible to determine that the ground fault state is released when the value of -ΔI / Δt of the ground switch current is smaller than the set value by setting the value of / Δt) set . In addition, the above two determination methods can be used in combination.

As a result of the determination (S18), the di / dt distance relay performs the following process when the ground fault point is not included in the range of the protection zone 2.

That is, the di / dt distance relay determines whether the ground fault is maintained for the second delay time associated with the protected area 3 (S26, S28), and if the ground fault is maintained for longer than the second delay time, the feed line The trip control signal is output to the circuit breaker installed in the furnace (S30).

On the other hand, if the ground fault is canceled as a result of the determination (S20, S26), the process proceeds to step S32 to open the ground switch.

 As described above, the ground fault protection relay method in the DC power supply system for electric railway according to the present invention can determine whether the ground fault occurs, as well as calculate the distance to the ground fault point. Therefore, the circuit breaker trip control.

The above embodiments have been described with respect to the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. It is obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art.

In the ground fault protection relay method in the DC feed system for electric railway according to the present invention, when a ground fault occurs in the DC feed system for electric railway, a ground fault line and a ground fault section may be identified based on the fault current according to the ground fault. It has an effect.

In addition, since the present invention can easily detect the point where the ground fault occurred when the ground fault occurs, there is an effect that the power of the healthy section is normally supplied while the power of the accident section can be cut off.

Claims (6)

A 64P relay that short-circuits the ground switch when a ground fault occurs in the DC feed system for electric railway; The DC power supply system for an electric railway, comprising a di / dt distance relay configured to trip the circuit breaker by calculating a distance to a ground fault point based on a change amount of a feeder line current formed as the ground switch is shorted. Ground Protection Relay System Determining whether a ground fault has occurred in the DC feed system for electric railway; Shorting the ground switch when a ground fault occurs; Calculating a change amount of a feeder current formed as the ground switch is short-circuited; And calculating a distance to a ground fault point based on the calculated change amount of current. The method of claim 2, The distance calculated in the distance calculation step is a ground fault distance calculation method in a DC power supply system for electric rail, characterized in that the value D determined by the following equation.

Where D is the distance to the accident site, if is the feeder ground fault current, E is the feeder voltage, L is the line reactance, and R is the line resistance. The method of claim 2, The distance calculation in the distance calculation step is a ground fault distance calculation method in the DC power supply system for electric rail, characterized in that the value D determined by the following equation.

Where D is the distance to the accident point, if is the feeder ground fault current, E is the feeder voltage, L is the reactance of the line, R is the line resistance, and SS is the time that if reaches the steady state, and Time Constant is Represents a time constant. Short-circuit the ground switch when a ground fault occurs in a state in which a protection zone for tripping the circuit breaker is set in advance according to a ground fault in a DC power feeding system for an electric railway; Calculating a distance to a ground fault point by calculating a change amount of a feeder current formed as the ground switch is short-circuited; And a trip control of the circuit breaker when the distance to the ground fault point calculated in the step is included in a range of the protection zone. The method of claim 5, The circuit breaker trip control step, A first step of tripping the circuit breaker if the distance to the ground fault point calculated in the ground fault distance calculation step falls within a preset range of the protection zone 1; When the distance to the ground fault point calculated in the ground fault distance calculation step is not included in the range of the protected zone 1, but falls within a preset range of the protected zone 2, the circuit breaker after the delay time associated with the protected zone 2 information has elapsed. A second step of controlling trip; And a third step of tripping the circuit breaker after a delay time associated with the protection zone 3 information if the distance to the ground fault point calculated in the ground distance calculation step is not included in the range of the protection zone 2. Ground fault protection relay method in DC feed system for electric railway.

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