Catenary Wire Protection using Self Cleaning Property Nano Silica Coating and Impedance Protection Relay Technique
Volume 2 Issue 2 March - May 2014
Research Paper
K. N. Dinesh Babu*, Isaac Ramalla**,
K. Mohan Reddy ***
*-** Research Scholar, Department of
Electrical, Power and Energy, College of Engineering Studies, University of
Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES), Energy Acres, Dehradun, Uttarakhand,
India.
*** Assistant Professor- Senior,
Department of Chemistry, College of Engineering Studies, University of
Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES), Energy Acres, Dehradun, Uttarakhand,
India.
Babu, K. N. D., Ramalla, I., and
Reddy, K. M. (2014). Catenary Wire Protection using Self Cleaning Property Nano
Silica Coating and Impedance Protection Relay Technique. i-manager’s
Journal on Circuits and Systems, 2(2), 33-41. https://doi.org/10.26634/jcir.2.2.2977
Abstract
In this paper, an attempt to overcome the challenges in catenary wire
protection, using the distance protection techniques has been made. A nano
superhydrophobic coating is coated on the aluminum rod and copper plate, and
the coating was showing an insulation property which can control few amount of
transformer impedance to inject into the catenary line and can control dynamic
variation of impedance which is discussed with a simple experiment in this
paper. This even acts as a self-cleaning superhydrphobicity as 'natural lotus
effect'.
Distance protection
relays utilize the comparison of the measured impedance with the set impedance,
and the result is utilized to decide, whether a fault has occurred or not. When
a fault occurs, the magnitude of current increases, and that of the voltage
decreases which results in a dip in impedance. When the measured impedance is
lesser than the set impedance, then the distance protection relay will trip the
breaker. This concept is perfect in most of the applications, but in catenary
wire protection, the set impedance varies dynamically. The dynamic variation of
the set impedance is due to the movement of electric locomotives where the
locomotive transformer gets included in the circuit dynamically. The
theoretical solution towards this concept is proposed in this paper.
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