A Vector Inspection Technique for Active Distribution Networks Based on Improved Back-to-Back Converters

Weiming Zhang, Hui Fan, Jiangbo Ren, Xianzhi Wang, Tiecheng Li and Yibo Wang ()
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Weiming Zhang: State Grid Hebei Electric Power Research Institute, Shijiazhuang 050021, China
Hui Fan: State Grid Hebei Electric Power Research Institute, Shijiazhuang 050021, China
Jiangbo Ren: State Grid Hebei Electric Power Co., Ltd., Shijiazhuang 050021, China
Xianzhi Wang: State Grid Hebei Electric Power Research Institute, Shijiazhuang 050021, China
Tiecheng Li: State Grid Hebei Electric Power Research Institute, Shijiazhuang 050021, China
Yibo Wang: Wuhan Kemov Electric Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430223, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: In this paper, an improved back-to-back converter is proposed, and the converter is used as a test power source for vector inspection of relay protection in an active distribution network, which effectively solves the problem that the output voltage and current of the test power source cannot be continuously and stably adjusted. Firstly, a three-phase back-to-back cascade converter is established to analyze the impedance characteristics of its DC terminal. Then a feedforward voltage is added to the inverter to improve the input impedance characteristics of the inverter. Secondly, the system stability and parameter stability of the improved back-to-back converter are analyzed. Finally, the improved converter is used as the test power source for vector inspection of relay protection in the active distribution network. The simulation results show that the stability of the improved back-to-back converter system is greatly improved. The experiment shows that the vector check technology based on an improved back-to-back converter can effectively check the vector of relay protection in an active distribution network and find various installation problems.

Keywords: active distribution network; relay protection; vector inspection; back-to-back converter; stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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