Pseudo-Incremental Normalized Quantity-Based Phase Selection Method for Systems With Conventional and Inverter-Based Resources

Abstract

This letter proposes a settings-free Pseudo-Incremental Normalized (PIN) quantity-based phase selection method, which is suitable for systems with conventional and inverter-based resources (IBRs). The proposed solution process voltage and current PIN components in the same way, being flexible for applications in weak and strong terminals. The proposed method is initially evaluated by means of PSCAD simulations with the aim to compare it against five other competing solutions. Then, real-world records are used to validate the proposed method application in actual fault scenarios. In both evaluation stages, faults on lines that interconnect IBRs to synchronous generator-dominated grids are considered, allowing to assess the proposed solution under the influence of conventional generations and IBRs. The obtained results attest that the proposed phase selection method is robust, flexible and reliable, being promising for systems with conventional generations and/or IBRs.