Wams Based Flow Transferring Indentification Algorithm and its implementation

When relays trip a faulted line in power system, the flow on the faulted line will be transferred to the other lines. Those lines might be overloaded and then cascading tripped by the backup relays, which worsen the system state and even cause blackout. Generally, these kind of cascading trips are the origins of a lot of well-known blackouts. In this paper, by analyzing the defects of traditional backup protections, a new wide area backup protection scheme based on WAMS is presented to identify flow transferring. A new concept of flow transferring relativity factor (FTRF) is proposed to estimate the flow distribution after flow transferring occurs; and the method of calculating FTRF matrix online is also deduced. The simulation of 10-unit and 39-bus New England network shows that the proposed wide area backup protection scheme can identify flow transferring successfully and hence be superior to the traditional backup protection.