New Electronic Current Transformer With a Self-Contained Power Supply

• Published in: IEEE transactions on power delivery Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 184 - 192
• Main Authors: Liang, Chin-Tien, Chen, Kun-Long, Tsai, Yuan-Pin, Chen, Nanming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.02.2015
• Subjects: Batteries; Current measurement; current transformer (CT); electronic current transformer; Hall effect; iron core; Power cables; Power supplies; Regulators; self-contained power supply; Sensors; Voltage control
• ISSN: 0885-8977; 1937-4208
• DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2014.2334894

Compared with traditional current transformers (CTs), electronic current transformers (ECTs) are characterized by small volume, light weight, good isolation, good linearity, and easy digitization. Hence, ECTs are one of the primary devices for signal digitization for supervising intelligent substations. We design a coreless ECT using Hall sensors as well as its mechanism and circuit configuration in order to replace traditional CTs and other CTs. The proposed ECT achieves Class 0.5 accuracy for measuring CTs and accuracy Class 5P21 for protective CTs according to IEC Standard 60044-8. An additional power supply is required to drive the ECT. Considering that there are no usable power supplies for special measurement environments, we use the surrounding magnetic fields induced by the cable currents as the power supply. A self-contained power supply is proposed and integrated with a backup battery power supply and a battery protection circuit to ensure that power is supplied for different operating conditions. In addition, we design a protective device to protect the back-end circuits of the self-contained power supply in case of a fault occurring in the power system.