RELIABILITY EVALUATION, CRITICALITY ANALYSIS OF SVC AND FAST PROTECTION ALGORITHM FOR SVC COMPENSATED TRANSMISSION LINE

Authors

  • Farhana Fayaz Electrical Engineering Department. National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.
  • Gobind Lal Pahuja Electrical Engineering Department. National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.

Keywords:

Artificial Neural Network (ANN), criticality, pattern recognition, reliability, Var Compensator (SVC)

Abstract

 This article reports a relay algorithm based protection of static var compensator (SVC) based compensated transmission line utilizing artificial neural networks (ANN). The sequentially involved four artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used. The first ANN detects fault and the second ANN classifies it as either a ground or a phase fault. The faulted phases are then detected using ground fault ANN or phase fault ANN, depending on the situation. A transmission line (100 km, 230 kV, 50Hz) is simulated with SVC at the midpoint using a sampling frequency of 1 kHz in PSCAD/EMTDC. The sequence current ratios are used in fast protection algorithm with 100% accuracy in 4 milliseconds and identify them as phase or ground faults in 8 milliseconds. Finally, the identification of the faulted phase/phases requires just 13 milliseconds. Further, the number of thyristor-switched capacitors (TSC) in SVC depends on several factors such as thyristor valve, reactive power output, and electrical network type. However, the effect of the number of TSCs on the SVC reliability and criticality is not found in the existing literature. The reliability of SVC is increased is reported in this work by varying the number of TSC branches. The observations found increase of 15.47% in the SVC reliability by increasing TSC branches from one to three. In this way, the number of TSC branches in SVC can be optimized to increase the system's reliability with minimum cost.

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2026-08-28

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Fayaz, F., & Lal Pahuja, G. (2026). RELIABILITY EVALUATION, CRITICALITY ANALYSIS OF SVC AND FAST PROTECTION ALGORITHM FOR SVC COMPENSATED TRANSMISSION LINE. Suranaree Journal of Science and Technology, 29(5), 010156(1–11). retrieved from https://ph04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/SUJST/article/view/15170

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