Multifunctional Coreless Hall-Effect Current Transformer for the Protection and Measurement of Power Systems
- 24 September 2013
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
- Vol. 63 (3), 557-565
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2013.2281555
Abstract
This paper presents a multifunctional coreless current transformer based on the Hall effect (multifunctional HCT), and designs its actual electronic circuit that can discriminate load and fault currents to perform both metering and protective functions. The multifunctional HCT has two primary circuits: 1) distinguishes the load current from the fault current and 2) delivers the current value using an analog multiplexer. This HCT can eliminate the 2.5±0.05 V offset voltage of commercial Hall sensors. It possesses two amplifiers with different gains. Therefore, this multifunctional HCT accurately measures power currents during the operations in measurement systems and protection systems. Using a low-pass filter, the multifunctional HCT is not only capable of reducing noise interference, but also improves the accuracy of power current measurements. The experimental results show that the multifunctional HCT can exhibit an accuracy class of 0.5 for both the measurement and protection of power systems within IEC standard 60044-8. Because the proposed multifunctional HCT does not have core and saturation problems, the accuracy class and limit can achieve the standard accuracy limit factor grade of 63.Keywords
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