Método para detecção e compensação dos efeitos causados pela saturação dos TCs de proteção com meios adaptativos para mitigação da influência do ruído e dos desvios de frequência

Abstract

This work proposes a method for detecting the saturation of the current-transformer cores used in the protection of electric power systems and promote the compensation for its effects by correcting the secondary current signal distorted due to the saturation. Signal processing techniques based on the second order differentiator Savitzky-Golay filter are used for locating the transition points between distorted and undistorted parts of the current signal. Then, an estimation process based on the least squares criteria that uses exclusively signal samples included in the undistorted regions is performed, extracting the parameters needed for the signal correction. The influences of the noise and the frequency offset were analysed, and adaptive means to mitigate their effects were developed and incorporated. The developed algorithms were implemented in MATLAB and performance evaluation was performed using the signals taken from fault simulations in a system modeled on a real time digital simulator (RTDS). The results indicated that the proposed method reaches a satisfactory performance, regardless of the CT parameters and within a wide range of analysed fault scenarios. Moreover, the method showed to be robust relative to the noise and effective in mitigating the errors due to the frequency offsets.