Space phasor model based monitoring of voltages in three phase systems

Abstract

This paper proposes a method for monitoring of voltages in three-phase systems using parameters of the ellipse, correspondent to the space phasor model of three-phase voltages. Three main parameters, semi-minor axis, semi-major axis and rotating angle of the ellipse are calculated as single-cycle characteristics. Once these characteristics exceed predefined threshold values, different voltage events are detected. Given whole event data the parameters of the corresponding ellipse are calculated as ‘single-event characteristics’. The proposed method is applied to different measured voltage waveforms. The simulation results confirm that the ellipse parameters are a good basis for both detecting and characterizing voltage events.