Performance of time-domain line protection elements on real-world faults

Abstract

Ultra-high-speed line protection is becoming a reality today, giving the industry a way to trip line faults in a few milliseconds. One relay described in this paper that uses time-domain principles incorporates incremental-quantity (TD32) and traveling-wave (TW32) directional elements in a communications-assisted tripping scheme, incremental-quantity distance element (TD21), and traveling-wave differential element (TW87). This paper introduces these time-domain line protection elements, shares key details of their implementation in hardware, and illustrates their operation using real-world faults and digital simulations. By comparing the performance of the time-domain line protection elements with the traditional phasor-based elements of the in-service relays that captured the fault records, we demonstrate the performance of the time-domain line protection elements.