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protection. DGs will supply short circuit current and increase flow passing transformer is very small during the fault, it will
short circuit level during system fault, which may damage take some time for protection of DG to detect system fault.
distribution equipment and impact distributing protection. During this period, electric apparatus have to suffer
Although interconnection of DG leads to a series of overvoltage.
negative impacts, we can allocate and set connecting arrester suffering overvoltage
equipment, such as limiting interconnecting capacity of DG,
setting isolation transformer and equipping relevant
connecting equipment and so on, to reduce and prevent above
disadvantageous impacts.
Isolation transformer of DG means special transformer
installed at the exit of DG when DG with large capacity needs single-phase to ungrounded
ground fault transformer
being interconnected. Voltage transformation is not its chief
function, and by selecting proper connection modes and Fig. 1 electric apparatus such as arrester suffer overvoltage during single-
phase fault
parameters of transformer, we can obtain following functions: It can be seen from above analysis that if high-pressure
(1) Prevent injecting direct current to grid (because direct side of isolation transformer uses ungrounded mode of
current doesn’t cause change of magnetic flux, direct current connection, it will lead to resonance overvoltage and steady
at the side of DG will not induce direct current potential via overvoltage and endanger electric apparatus such as DG unit,
transformer, and ordinary transformer can obtain this transformer, and lightning arrester and so on. Therefore, when
function); selecting connection mode of isolation transformer, the high-
(2) Clear harmonics with 3 or integer multiples of 3 orders, pressure side should be guaranteed grounding to prevent
cut down on impacts of higher harmonic and voltage overvoltage at DG side during system fault. [7]
fluctuation on other users on the distribution network;
(3) Make sure the side of DG can detect the fault during B. Guarantee DG side to detect grid fault
system fault and limit short circuit current to prevent In order that line opening doesn’t result in islanding
protection disoperation of the system; operation during system fault, DG’s protection should detect
(4) Prevent resonance overvoltage and steady overvoltage system fault correctly and trip off DG before line opening, in
at the side of DG during system fault, resulted from this way electric department can clear the fault according to
ungrounded of DG side or DG disconnection with grid. initial plan. Even above method is unfeasible, DG’s protection
Above are just about the general principles to select should detect the fault before reclosing relay starts and cut off
connection mode and parameters of DG isolation transformer. DG after line breaker trips off.
As a general rule, it is not necessary for DG with small If there is an isolation transformer at the exit of DG, then
capacity to install special isolation transformer. While connection mode of transformer will have certain impacts.
capacity of DG is considerable, several disadvantageous Therefore, when selecting connection mode of transformer,
impacts can be weaken and reduce by installing isolation we must follow principles convenient to fault detection. For
transformer. protection of power supply system, when short circuit presents
to system, we hope the actual short circuit current is more
IV. SELECTING OF TRANSFORMER CONNECTION MODE enough so that the protection action will be more reliable and
in favor of cutting off fault line quickly. For the most frequent
A. Prevent ferro resonance and overvoltage short circuit fault style, namely single-phase short circuit fault,
If electric lines at grid side have to exit operation due to the quantity of short circuit current depends on zero sequence
lighting stroke or service, circuit breaker, reclosing equipment, impedance. If the grid side of isolation transformer isn’t
section breaker or fuse will act to cut off power supply lines. grounding, the zero sequence impedance will be very large
If DG units are still in operation then, voltage will remain in and fault zero sequence current can’t circulate, which results
the electric lines. As showed in figure 1 that DG is connected that it is difficult for DG side to detect single-phase fault at
to other loads with an ∆ / Y isolation transformer, without grid side. If the fault isn’t detected, it means that the electric
grounding source. Here, typical ferro resonance will present. [6] apparatus will suffer overvoltage.
Besides that, the two lighting arresters of the other non-fail It can be seen from above analysis that on the view of
phases will suffer line voltage (in excess of rated voltage of preventing overvoltage at the DG side and guaranteeing DG
the lighting arresters because of ungrounded connection mode side to detect system fault, the primary side of isolation
of transformer high-pressure side. Here, if DG relay can not transformer needs effective grounding. Therefore, we should
detect abnormal islanding state and still supply power for follow the principle of the primary side grounding when
other users in the electric lines, it will lead to no planned selecting transformer connection mode.
independent operation. Because the designed load of DG unit First of all, we analyze the current distribution during
is not so much, this operation mode will result in very serious single-phase short circuit at system side, when DG’s isolation
sequent and damage the unit at last. In addition, the remaining transformer adopts Yn / ∆ (e.g. yn11, D). Assume the ratio of
voltage in the line will endanger maintainers’ lives. If the net transformer line voltage is n, and then the ratio of phase
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voltage is n. The relation of currents of DG side and system connection can shield harmonic, the fault current can’t
side is circulate, which makes DG side can not detect the fault. While
Yn / Yn connection is scarcely used because other negative
D n D D
Ia = ( I A − IC ) effect is too much (e.g. DG is easy to de destroyed during the
3 fault. Therefore, it is better to select transformer with Yn / ∆
D n D D
Ib = (I B − I A ) (1) mode of connection.
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D n D D
Ic = ( IC − I B ) V. SELECTING OF TRANSFORMER PARAMETERS
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The main function of isolation transformer is step up and
When single-phase short current presents to C phase at the down instead of isolation, and the voltage level of primary and
D D
(1)
D D secondary side of transformer even can choose by the ratio of
system side, there is I C = I K , I B = I A = 0 . The positive- 1:1 in accordance with exit voltage of DG. Transformer
sequence current, negative-sequence current and zero- capacity can choose more than DG capacity. The uppermost
sequence current will all be transmitted into delta winding at thing of selecting isolation transformer parameters is selecting
the DG side, but the zero-sequence current only circulates in leakage reactance and neutral ground reactance of transformer.
delta winding. Then, there is following relation that We will analyze in two points of view as follow.
D
We make an assay on the illustration showed in Figure 2,
D n (1) and select EMTDC simulation software to simulate on
Ia = −
3IK different conditions. DG is connected to the feeder of a shutter
D
station, which has several additional outgoing feeders except
Ib = 0 ( 2) the feeder that DG is connected to. When fault presents to one
D
D n (1) of the feeders, the connection of DG will lead to certain
Ic =
3IK impacts on system.
It can be known that no matter which phase the single- load
phase short circuit occurs to, there are always two line Xgrid
Xa
currents at DG side reflecting single phase short circuit load a
current at system side, and system fault can be detected by
Xb
over current protection. b
From above analysis, we can see that when isolation
transformer uses connection, the single-phase short circuit
fault is easy to be detected according to voltage between
load
phases or line current of DG side and other faults is
correspondingly easy to be detected. DG
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line b. x
To solve this issue, it can be considered from following k 0
= ∑ (0)
x ∑ (0)
two aspects: (1) limit connection capacity of DG; (2) increase
It can be seen from above formula that the larger zero
impedance of DG isolation transformer. We can limit DG
sequence impedance is, the larger voltage of non-fault phase
short circuit current and prevent some disadvantageous
after fault is. In order to prevent overvoltage, it should be
impacts by these two ways. When DG capacity can not be
guaranteed that zero sequence impedance meets the
reduced for economic reason or other reasons, we should
requirement of effective grounding.
select isolation transformer with high impedance or add to
Analyzing zero sequence impedance diagram of figure 4, it
reactor at neutral point of star side to reduce short circuit
can be seen that:
current.
1) When DG is connected to grid, which will provide
In medium-voltage distribution network, over current
grounding source (low enough zero sequence impedance), if
protections generally take 1.4kA as detecting value. In order
distribution network is grounding system, then DG is effective
to prevent original protection disoperation, zero sequence
grounding;
impedance of transformer should be selected to make current
2) If electric grid doesn’t provide grounding source, or
of DG side not pass 1.4kA during the fault.
DG trips off grid, there is no grid zero sequence impedance
B. Consider in view of effective grounding factor (Xgrid is very great or infinitely great). Load Xloadb0 is
While we guarantee the fault current of DG is not too large generally biggish, while zero sequence impedance of load
to affect protection, we also have to prevent temporary Xloadb0 may make a great difference, which requires DG to
overvoltage at DG side during system fault, which is to provide effective grounding. Isolation transformer of DG
guarantee effective grounding after disconnection with electric provides parallel zero sequence channel for load zero
grid. Effective grounding means that when fault to ground impedance, and zero sequence impedance should be lower
occurs to one of three phases of power system, the voltage to enough to provide effective grounding.
ground of the other two phases can not be more than 125% of However, in view of fault current, if the zero sequence
rated voltage. impedance is too low, DG will be easy to be affected by
For DG parallel to grid model in figure 2, when single- overload of system disturbance. During the fault, short circuit
phase short circuit fault occurs to feeder as showed in the current of fault phase (A phase) is
figure, the equivalent circuit of positive sequence and zero ⋅
sequence is respectively showed in figure 3 and figure 4: ⋅
=
⋅
+
⋅
+
⋅
= 3×
U f 0
( 5)
Xa1 Xb1
I f I f (1) I f (2) I f (0) z ∑(1) z ∑(2) + z ∑ (0)
+
Xt1 It can be seen from above equation that too low zero sequence
impedance will augment short circuit level, which may
Xgrid1 Xload1 Xloadb1
Xdg destroy protection of distribution. Therefore, in order to
restrain short circuit current, we must select transformer with
biggish impedance; however, in order to guarantee effective
Fig. 3 equivalent circuit of positive sequence
Xa0 Xb0 grounding and prevent overvoltage, the impedance of
transformer should be reduced. In consequence, we should
make a compromise between them.
Xt0
There are two ways to change the impedance of
Xgrid0 Xload0 Xloadb0
transformer:
(1) Change leakage reactance of transformer;
(2) Change reactance of neutral point at star side.
Fig. 4 equivalent circuit of zero sequence
Therefore, when selecting isolation transformer, we can
When A phase to ground short circuit occurs to system,
adjust leakage reactance and neutral point reactance to
individual voltages of the non-fault phases B, C is [8]
determine zero sequence reactance of transformer and obtain
compromise between restraining DG injecting short circuit
⋅
=
⋅
−
⋅ k 0
−1
( 3) current and effective grounding.
U fB U fB 0 U fA 0 2+k0
C. 4.3 Simulation illustration
⋅ ⋅ ⋅ k −1 This paper studies impacts of different zero sequence
= − 0
( 4) impedances of transformer on short circuit current and
U fC U fC 0 U fA 0 2+k0
temporary overvoltage on the basis of model showed in figure
⋅ ⋅ ⋅ 2. In the illustration, DG is regarded as a 1.5MVA minitype
Among these, , , respectively are generator with 0.4kV export voltage, and system bus voltage
U fA 0 U fB 0 U fC 0
is 10.5kV. Because the ratio of reactance to resistance in the
voltages of A, B, C phases at fault point before the fault,
grid is considerable, we only take reactance into account and
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VI. CONCLUSION
This paper illustrates the ways of selecting DG isolation
transformer by theory analysis and simulation illustration on
Fig. 12 voltage of primary side of isolation transformer when adjusting the basis of study of impacts of DG on power system.
reactance of transformer (1) In order to prevent ferro resonance and overvoltage
It can be seen in figure 11 that when we keep leakage due to without earthing source at DG side and guarantee DG
impedance of 3% and change neutral point reactance to 0.4 , side to detect system fault during the fault, it calls for effective
the zero sequence impedance of transformer is 0.52p.u.. Here, grounding at primary side of isolation transformer;
the effective value of maximum short circuit current provided (2) In view of clearing triple-harmonic and higher
by DG side is 0.8kA, and the effective value of maximum harmonics with integer multiples of 3 order, we can choose
short circuit current is close to 4.3kA. That is to say, the short isolation transformer with delta mode of connection;
circuit current of DG side is comparatively small and will not (3) By analysis and comparison, we can find that the
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