Innovative Solid-State Ferroresonance-Suppressing Circuit for Voltage Transformer Protection in Wind Generation Systems

Ferroresonance, as an undesirable disturbance, leads to significant overvoltage and distorted waveforms. This phenomenon can be highly damaging to voltage transformers and other parallel-connected equipment and can entail catastrophic consequences. This paper aims to design and study a solid-state f...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 16; no. 23; p. 7684
Main Authors Bakhshi, Ali, Bigdeli, Mehdi, Moradlou, Majid, Behdani, Behzad, Hojabri, Mojgan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2023
Subjects
Analysis
Electric transformers
Energy
Failure
ferroresonance
overvoltage
protection
Simulation
solid-state circuit
voltage transformer (VT)
wind generation systems
Wind power
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Summary:Ferroresonance, as an undesirable disturbance, leads to significant overvoltage and distorted waveforms. This phenomenon can be highly damaging to voltage transformers and other parallel-connected equipment and can entail catastrophic consequences. This paper aims to design and study a solid-state ferroresonance-suppressing circuit (SSFSC) to protect voltage transformers (VTs) together with other parallel-connected equipment in wind generation systems from the adverse effects of the ferroresonance phenomenon. The proposed structure consists of low-voltage circuits, including power IGBTs. The excellent performance of the proposed SSFSC in suppressing ferroresonance overvoltage in wind generation VTs has been authenticated by analyses conducted utilizing a wind generation system model. In order to validate the performance of the proposed SSFSC, detailed analytical studies and time-domain simulations have been carried out employing a MATLAB/Simulink environment. The results verify that the proposed SSFSC can effectively suppress ferroresonance phenomena in VTs and mitigate their accompanying overvoltages with a high operational speed.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en16237684