Ngan Mach ATP
Ngan Mach ATP
Ngan Mach ATP
Received September 15, 2012; Revised February 3, 2014; Accepted March 24, 2014
The calculation of short-circuit currents is important for power systems operation and restoration, and for
determining the means to protect human lives and properties. In this paper, a part of a power system network,
around the Dtmarovice power station in Czech Republic, was simulated by the well known program EMTP-ATPDraw
(Electromagnetic Transients Program-Alternative Transient Program), and short-circuit currents and voltages
were calculated at different points in the electric network and presented as a time function by the PlotXY program.
Calculations were done just for phase-to-ground, and for the three-phase short-circuit at the Kunice substation. The
results were important for determining the characteristics of the equipment required to withstand or break the short-
circuit current; for this reason, the calculations were repeated using earth-fault resistances only for the case of busbar
KUN shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed: Sources of a short-circuit current that are normally considered
E-mail: [email protected] include utility sources, local sources, synchronous motors, in-
duction motors and alternate power sources [4].
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the type and duration of the fault, the installation point (as in a
physical location) where the fault occurred and the short-circuit (a)
power. Consequences include:
U A 0=
= , I B 0=
, IC 0 (1)
3 E
IA = (2) Switching from the state before the fault to the new state is
Z1 + Z 2 + Z 0
accompanied by a transient. In single-phase short-circuits (Fig.
2(a)), the transient is caused by the balance capacities in phases
where B and C, where its energy shifts to inductance, which will be
E is the phase voltage. transformed into the energy of the coils magnetic field and vice
Z1, Z2 and Z0 are the positive, negative and zero impedances, versa. This results in an oscillating circuit, whose natural fre-
respectively. quency depends on the values of capacities and inductance and
The characteristic equations for a three-phase short circuit is oscillates the phase A voltage from the phase value UA to, or near,
as follows (Fig. 1(b)): zero and UB and UC to the values U'B and U'C calculated by equa-
tions 5 and 6 below:
I=
A I=
B I C , U=
A U=
B UC (3)
'
3 Z 0 / Z1 3
For the phase currents, assuming a symmetrical short: I B= U A j (5)
2 2 + Z 0 / Z1 2
E E E 3 Z 0 / Z1 3
I A = a 2 , IC =
, IB = a , (4) U '
C= U A +j (6)
Z1 Z1 Z1
2 2 + Z 0 / Z1 2
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The diagram of Fig. 2(a) can be replaced by Fig. 2(b), and the
frequency of the circuit is calculated by equation 7 below:
1
f0 =
(7)
2 3 Lr C
2
3. CONSTRUCTION OF THE MODELS U = 15.75 =12.860 kV (8)
amp 3
The power system has two supply stations, the block of
Dtmarovice (EDE), which contains a synchronous generator The supergrid 220 kV of Lstkovec (LIS2) is represented as an
(EDE2) and a block transformer (EDET), and the supergrid 220 ideal source of voltage (AC3ph- type 14) with amplitude given by
kV of Lstkovec (LIS2), in addition to two transformers, three equation 9:
Angle SMOVTP
Volt Freq Poles
Phase A in (deg.) No machines in parallel=1
12,860 50 77.47 2 1
SMOVTQ RMVA RkV RA
AGLINE
No machines in parallel=1 3phase volt-ampere rating line-to-line voltage Armature resistance (pu)
1 235 15.75 5,000 0
Xd (pu) Xq (pu)
XL (pu) Xd' (pu) Xq' (pu)
D-axis synchronous reac- Q-axis synchronous reac-
Armature leakage reactance D-axis transient reactance Q-axis transient reactance
tance tance
0.13 1.73 1.65 0.206 0.165
Xd'' (pu) Tdo' (s) Tqo' (s) Tdo'' (s)
Xq'' (pu)
D-axis subtransient reac- D-axis transient time con- Q-axis transient time con- D-axis subtransient time
Q-axis subtransient reactance
tance stant stant constant
0.154 0.154 7.1 7.1 0.041
Tqo'' (s) RN (pu) XN (pu) XCAN (pu)
Xo (pu)
Q-axis subtransient time Real part of neutral ground- Imaginary part of neutral Canay's characteristic reac-
Zero-sequence reactance
constant ing impedance grounding impedance tance. unknown=XL
0.43 0.13 0 0 0.13
MECHUN
HICO DSR DSD FM
0: English units. 1: Metric
0.0156 0 0 3 1
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U 2 1102 106
R =
=
(10) = 121 performed in total. A switching simulation was represented by a
P 100 106 statistical switch, modeled at ATP as SW_STAT, with a Gaussian
probability distribution and described by a standard deviation
Finally, the scheme of the Dtmarovice power station - block (set to 1 s). For all simulations, the starting time of the fault was
No. 2 shown in Fig. 3, will be modeled by ATPDraw as shown in set to 0.0378 s, which is the time the voltage of phase A crosses
Fig. 4 below. the maximum.
5. NOTES
A fault such as indirect connection of one phase with the
ground in networks with an isolated node or in compensated
networks (node is connected via arc-suppression coil) is called
an earth-fault (or ground fault). This fault may occur in normal
operation and currents will leak from phase to earth. Earth-
leakage currents have small values and are capacitive [12], while
short-circuit currents usually reach multiple values higher than
those at steady state operation and are inductive.
In this study, we assumed that the earth-fault resistance was
zero, although it has a decisive influence on the Y-voltage (U0)
value and thereby on earth-fault protections. For example, the
functions of some earth-fault protections, such as GSC12 [12],
are blocked by the value of (U0); protection will not react if the
value does not reached 30~40% of the nominal value.
Fig. 11. The currents to the load KUN. Short-circuit calculations are possible using earth-fault resis-
tances if the power system is correctly modeled and the study
aims to find the correct configuration for the network to avoid
faults. In ATPDraw, the earth-fault resistance is simply modeled
by the component "Resistor", which will be one-pole or three-
pole grounded. For example, with earth-fault resistance of 10
for the scheme corresponding to Figs. 5 and 6, the curves of the
currents and voltages will differ as shown below. The amplitude
of the current at phase A reached 538.92 A, not zero (Fig. 5), and
the amplitude of the voltage reached 63.6 kV.
6. CONCLUSIONS
This study demonstrated the imbalance situations due to
short circuits at different locations in power systems. Short-
circuits may occur in well designed power systems and produce
large decaying transient currents, in most cases much above the
Fig. 12. The voltages to the load KUN. system load currents. Such a case can be studied to identify the
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Fig. 13. The currents at EDET. Fig. 17. The currents to the load KUN - () with and () without earth-
fault resistance.
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