Fast internal detection and location in Shunt Ca-pacitor Banks (SCBs) can lead to the prevention of damages to other SCBs' elements and consequently avoid undesirable performance and effects in power system operation. This paper targets the performance of phasor-based algorithms of failure detection and fault location of SCBs. Being dependent on the fundamental phasor components which usually are calculated based on the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), the failure detection and fault location algorithms suffer from almost one-cycle delay. This paper provides sub-cycle phasor estimation based on the least-square technique. The proposed algorithm is evaluated for different configurations of SCBs considering different fuse protection designs. The proposed method provides a criterion for relay decision-making in the case of multiple faulty phases condition. The proposed method is designed to monitor and detect consecutive failures based on the existing data of commercial relays. Performance evaluations are conducted under different circumstances namely voltage unbalance conditions and multiple internal fault locations.@en

The performance of measurement transformers especially in transient phenomena affects the monitoring, control and protective devices. Coupling capacitor voltage transformer (CCVT) is a measurement transformer that may experience ferroresonance phenomenon due to the presence of capacitors and non-linear reactors. This study provides a probabilistic framework for investigation of ferroresonance phenomenon in CCVT. The aim of this investigation is to find out the area of the power system in which a CCVT is highly prone to experience ferroresonance phenomenon. Also through this framework the behaviour of the different types of ferroresonance suppression circuits and possible solutions to avoid or reduce the chance of ferroresonance will be discussed. The effects of several factors such as switching moment, different fault type and the fault inception angle are investigated. The investigation will be conducted considering the effects of single-pole auto-reclosing, three-pole auto-reclosing and capacitor failure in the CCVT. As shown in the simulation results, the presented framework can provide some useful information regarding the exposure level and severity of CCVT ferroresonance in the system.@en

This paper deals with a fault detection investigation of SCBs, and it is focused on the faulty phase detection and the number of faulty capacitor units. Unlike previous methods, the proposed method provides a relay decision making criterion which determine the faulty capacitors, and the number of capacitor failures in case of multiple faulty phase conditions. The proposed algorithm is applied on different wye configurations of SCBs considering different protection designs (i.e., fuseless, internally and externally fused units). Since the detection of capacitor failures in SCBs are based on the fundamental phasor component, there may occur a significant delay in decision making in the case of an external short circuit fault in the power system. The aforementioned condition, which will be mathematically proven, happens due to a capacitor discharge after fault clearance. To deal with this condition, a method is proposed by applying an algorithm, in which the fundamental component of the voltage signal is extracted in one cycle. Performance evaluations associated with the proposed method are provided for different fault conditions, fault locations, and different levels of harmonics and, they are further discussed through the implementation of the proposed method in MATLAB environment.@en