Conjugate Vectors Method Applied to Asymmetrical Fault Analysis of Power Electronized Power Systems

Abstract

With the wide application of power electronized resources (PERs), the amplitude and frequency of voltages show significant time-varying characteristics under asymmetrical faults. As a result, the traditional phasor model, impedance model, and symmetrical components method based on the constant amplitude and frequency of voltages are facing great challenges. Hence, a novel asymmetrical fault analysis method based on conjugate vectors is proposed in this paper which can meet the modeling and analysis requirements of the network excited by voltages with time-varying amplitude/frequency. Furthermore, asymmetrical fault characteristics are extracted. As an application, a faulted phase identification (FPI) strategy is proposed based on the fault characteristics. The correctness and superiority of the asymmetrical fault analysis method and FPI strategy are verified in time-domain simulations and a real-time digital simulator.

Keywords

• Asymmetrical fault characteristics
• conjugate vectors method
• dynamic asymmetrical fault analysis
• time-varying amplitude/frequency