Índices de coordenação para avaliação dos impactos da inserção de geração distribuída nos esquemas de proteção de sistemas de distribuição radiais e malhados, utilizando relés de sobrecorrente direcionais de tempo inverso

Abstract

The insertion of distributed power sources of low power presents new challenges in the planning and operation of distribution systems. The coordination of the protection system is a challenge which modifies as the insertion of the distributed generation grows at any point in any system. In order to verify how the coordination is altered different indicators have been proposed in literature, seeking to express numerically the effect of this insertion on the pair of relays of a coordinated protection system. The Protection Coordination Index (PCI) and the Protection Miscoordination Index (PMI) are shown as valid indicators for this analysis. The purpose of this paper is to apply these quantifiers in the protection schemes of distribution lines of radial and grid systems that use Inverse Time Overcurrent Relays. By applying these indicators, it will be possible to judge if they will provide enough information to analyze the impact of GD insertion in the SDEE, otherwise, identify if there will be limitations which can be remedied by proposing new indicators. The new indicators proposed in this paper seek to cover the limitations observed, without necessarily using the same information. To achieve this goal, distributed generators will be connected at different points in the network, and its generation capacity will be changed in an increasing way; where for each insertion value and at each point of the system, the Coordination Time Intervals (CTI) between consecutive pairs of relays will be verified, and from these values, the quantitative indicators of the impact of the GD will be calculated. For this, a distribution grid system was modeled with a purpose of obtain the required quantities in the scaling of CT1s and relays, thus obtaining a selective coordinate operation, where for each primary relay there will be an extra relay, forming a protective pair. Next two protective systems were adjusted: one considering one-way relays and another, twoway relays. Finally, for the protection systems dimensioned and coordinated, the indexes found in the literature and the proposed indexes were calculated and compared to the same pair of relays, considering the same GD insertion value at different points of the system. Every indicator were valid to the quantification of the GD insertion impact in the protection schemes applied to SDEE, where IDP indicates a percentage of faults that will cause miscoordination, IDPP indicates the percentage of pairs of relays that will be miscoordinate for each fault, ICP shows wether the ITC variation will occur slowly or rapidly, where the faster variation will result in miscoordination rather than the slower one and ITC (%) imposes a restriction on ITC reduction indicating whether the insertion value will miscoordinate the pairs of relays analyzed through numerical values.