A Research of Operation Stability of Overhead Transmission Lines’ Relay Protection Algorithms, Which are Based on Travelling Wave Principle

Abstract

The characteristic of the problem, relevance of the paper. At the present time in electric power industry a concept of intelligent electrical power system is realized. A key component of this system is a digital substation. One of the main tasks of digital substation equipment is realization of effective relay protection and network automation devices. Relatively new phenomenon in this field is relay protection devices, which are based on travelling wave parameters measurement. A very important characteristic of relay protection devices (especially for extra-high voltage transmission lines of 330-750 kV) is their speed-of-response. The usage of travelling wave-based principle will allow to limit speed-of-response only by travelling wave propagation time along a protected transmission line.