Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yasutaka Sonobe

Takahiro Kase

Hidenari Amo

A directional ground relay () for receiving electric values relating to voltage and current from a power transmission line () to be protected. The directional ground relay may decide a direction of a fault in the power transmission line based upon the electric values. The directional ground relay comprises a zero-phase sequential current calculation unit (-) for calculating a zero-phase sequential current based upon the current detected from the power transmission line. The directional ground relay further comprises a phase-comparison unit (-) configured to compare a phase of the zero-phase sequential current to a phase of voltage corresponding to the voltage in the power transmission line, to decide whether the zero-phase sequential current is within a pre-determined range, and to output the phase of the voltage as a faulty phase of voltage, when the zero-phase sequential current is within the pre-determined range.

Directional ground relay system

A digital directional relay converts a voltage value and a current value of a power system into digital voltage data and digital current data by periodic sampling and determines a direction of a fault using the digital voltage data and the digital current data. In the digital directional relay, a variation in unbalanced component voltage and a variation in unbalanced component current are computed using both voltage data at a reference point in time and voltage data at a point in time elapsed from the reference point in time by a given sampling interval and using both current data at reference time and current data at time elapsed from the reference time by a given sampling interval, respectively. A relationship in phase between these variations is obtained to determine whether a forward fault or a reverse fault occurs.

Digital directional relay

A directional comparison distance relay system for protecting a power transmission line. The relay system comprises a fault detection unit which includes a directional distance relay element for deciding whether a fault is in forward or reverse directions; a short-circuit distance relay element for deciding whether a fault is within a protection zone by distance calculation; and an evolving fault detecting unit for deciding an evolving fault when a forward earth fault directional relay in a single phase and a reverse directional relay in a phase are in operation. The relay system further comprises a block unit for blocking trip of a circuit breaker at a near end due to the short-circuit distance relay, and for blocking permissive trip signal to a circuit breaker at the far end, based on an operation of the evolving fault detecting unit.

Directional comparison distance relay system

In a protective relay system according to an aspect of the present invention, a direction of a fault is correctly determined during system oscillation using one of a negative-phase-sequence relay and a zero-phase-sequence relay. A circuit breaker is tripped only when an internal fault is determined at both terminals to be protected using a carrier signal. Thus, even though a fault occurs during system oscillation, the circuit breaker can be tripped against the internal fault.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasutaka Sonobe