When a circuit breaker is opened, a large capacitance around the buses, the circuit breaker and the potential transformer (PT) might cause PT ferroresonance. During PT ferroresonance, the iron core repeats saturation and unsaturation even though the s...
When a circuit breaker is opened, a large capacitance around the buses, the circuit breaker and the potential transformer (PT) might cause PT ferroresonance. During PT ferroresonance, the iron core repeats saturation and unsaturation even though the supplied voltage is a rated voltage. This paper describes the quantitative analysis of PT ferroresonance in the transient-state using a two-segment core model. To analyze ferroresonance analytically, the iron core is modelled by a simplified two-segment core model in this paper. Thus, a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) for the flux linkage is changed into a linear ODE with constant coefficients, which enables an analytical analysis. In this simplified model, each state, which is either saturated or unsaturated state, corresponds to one of the three modes, i.e. overdamping, critical damping and underdamping. The flux linkage and the voltage in each state are obtained analytically by solving the linear ODE with constant coefficients. The proposed transient analysis is effective in the more understanding of ferroresonance and thus can be used to design a ferroresonance prevention or suppression circuit of a PT.
When a circuit breaker is opened, the flux linkage of PT core might exceed the flux linkage of a saturation point, and PT ferroresonance occurs. This paper proposes a PT ferroresonance preventing method based on a two-segment core model. The proposed method decides the conditions of parameters to ensure that the flux linkage should not exceed the saturation point. Based on the assumption that the core is not saturated, the flux linkage is obtained analytically by solving a second-order differential equation. The maximum of the flux linkage depends on time, open phase angle and parameters. Firstly, the upper limit of the flux linkage was obtained because the maximum of the flux linkage cannot be obtained directly by differentiating the flux linkage with respect to time. Secondly, the maximum of the upper limit was obtained by differentiating the flux linkage with respect to the open phase angle. Depending on the three damping modes, the conditions of the parameters were obtained to ensure that the maximum of the upper limit should not exceed the saturation point. The ferroresonance regions under various operating conditions were shown.