Current-limiting reactors are widely used in industrial electrical grids to reduce the current amplitude in the equipment and stabilize the voltage on the busbar during short circuits. Their application is distinguished by high technical and economic efficiency. However, mechanical damage to the reactors has been observed within extensive industrial grids with many induction motors and internal synchronous generators. The article analyses a case study of the reactor damage in the true industrial grid during a short circuit. An analysis of the damaged reactor’s previous operation had shown that there was a weakening of the fastenings in the reactor design, caused by the repeated starting currents of the grid motors and generators. A study of grid transients during short circuits was carried out by Matlab/Simulink software. The simulation results showed that the reactor could be damaged by a critical peak current in an unfavourable combination of the grid configuration and the short circuit location. The results of the study prove that, for industrial networks containing powerful induction motors and internal synchronous generators, the standardized procedure for selecting current-limiting reactors should additionally consider such factors as the localization in the grid, the effect of equipment-starting currents and possible grid configurations.
Passive filters are widely used to mitigate the effect of load harmonics on the supply power grid. Topology selection of the filters is based on the frequency bandwidth to be suppressed. Filter topologies comprising single-tuned filters and damped filters are the most popular in industrial power system applications. The article focuses on the influence of the damped C-type 2 nd harmonic filter on the transients behavior under arc transformer energization in the arc furnace power supply system compensated by SVC. The examination results of transient currents and voltages across capacitors and reactors of the 3 rd and 5 th passive filters are compared for two topologies of the SVC filter circuits: with and without C-type filter. The Matlab/Simulink Software was used to modeling filter behavior during unload transformer switching-on.
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