LMD-based fault detection scheme for TCSC compensated wind integrated transmission lines

Abstract

In this paper, a fast fault detection scheme is presented to detect the faults in thyristor-controlled series capacitor (TCSC) compensated transmission line connected with the large wind farms to export the electrical power to grid. The proposed logic utilizes the current information at the relay location and processes through the local mean decomposition technique to extract the magnitude features of the current. Cumulative sum of these features are computed for each phase currents to detect the faults in the transmission lines and further to classify the faulty phase in the system. The residual component of the current is used to detect the ground involvement in the faulty phase. The proposed method is tested during variety of faults by changing the nature of the fault using the fault parameters. Furthermore, the impact of the TCSC is also investigated along with the dynamic changes of the WF and their influence on the protection scheme. All the simulations are performed in MALTAB-Simulink software.