Adaptive Impedance Relay with Composite Polarizing Voltage
Fault resistance can bring some disadvantages for an impedance relay while a single-phase-to-ground fault occurs on transmission line. Taking advantage of the compensated voltage changing with fault resistance, this paper presents a kind of adaptive impedance relay with composite polarizing voltage to enhance the capability against fault resistance. On the other hand, the operating boundary of the adaptive relay may enter into "in-phase" region along with the increase of fault resistance. To prevent the adaptive relay from the "in-phase" problem, a new additional blocking component is proposed in this paper. Both the adaptive relay and the blocking component are all analyzed in the voltage plane and the impedance plane. Theoretical analyses show that both of them have circular characteristics with greater resistive tolerance. The performance of the relay has been demonstrated on a two-source 500 km line 750 kV system.
Research of one new adaptive mho relay
In this paper, a new mho relay based on the adaptive principle is proposed. The operation boundary of the new relay can be adjusted to adapt different earth-fault resistance automatically, and provide consistent relay zone coverage. Therefore the adaptive mho relay has a perfect performance for the protection of single phase-to-earth faults, especially the high impedance faults on transmission line. The performance of the relay has been verified on a simulated network using ATP program. The result shows that the new adaptive mho relay has excellent performance within the protective zone, and it can reflect inner single-phase faults with a high impedance of more than 800 /spl Omega/ on a simulated 300 km long transmission line of 500 kV.
Integrating Al with NiO nano honeycomb to realize an energetic material on silicon substrate
Nano energetic materials offer improved performance in energy release, ignition, and mechanical properties compared to their bulk or micro counterparts. In this study, the authors propose an approach to synthesize an Al/NiO based nano energetic material which is fully compatible with a microsystem. A two-dimensional NiO nano honeycomb is first realized by thermal oxidation of a Ni thin film deposited onto a silicon substrate by thermal evaporation. Then the NiO nano honeycomb is integrated with an Al that is deposited by thermal evaporation to realize an Al/NiO based nano energetic material. This approach has several advantages over previous investigations, such as lower ignition temperature, enhanced interfacial contact area, reduced impurities and Al oxidation, tailored dimensions, and easier integration into a microsystem to realize functional devices. The synthesized Al/NiO based nano energetic material is characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, differential thermal analysis, and differential scanning calorimetry.