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.
Study on reactance relays for single phase to earth fault on EHV transmission lines
Two questions about zero-sequence-reactance relay to overcome the disadvantages of high fault resistance for single phase to earth fault of high voltage transmission lines are discussed in this paper. The first question is about the phase difference between the measured zero-sequence current and voltage at fault position for un-balanced transmission lines. The second question is about the "in-phase" problem in reactance relays (or fault component reactance relays). This paper analyzes the two questions theoretically and the reactance relay is improved by a new discriminative principle. The capability against the fault resistance is largely enhanced by the improved schemes.
Turbine blade temperature calculation and life estimation - a sensitivity analysis
Abstract The overall operating cost of the modern gas turbines is greatly influenced by the durability of hot section components operating at high temperatures. In turbine operating conditions, some defects may occur which can decrease hot section life. In the present paper, methods used for calculating blade temperature and life are demonstrated and validated. Using these methods, a set of sensitivity analyses on the parameters affecting temperature and life of a high pressure, high temperature turbine first stage blade is carried out. Investigated uncertainties are: (1) blade coating thickness, (2) coolant inlet pressure and temperature (as a result of secondary air system), and (3) gas turbine load variation. Results show that increasing thermal barrier coating thickness by 3 times, leads to rise in the blade life by 9 times. In addition, considering inlet cooling temperature and pressure, deviation in temperature has greater effect on blade life. One of the interesting points that can be realized from the results is that 300 hours operation at 70% load can be equal to one hour operation at base load.