Overvoltage phenomena caused by disconnecting motor-loads on power lines with open-phase

This paper describes overvoltage caused by disconnecting a lot of motor-loads on a power distribution line with power-factor-correcting capacitors during a transmission line open-phase. The overvoltage phenomena are studied by a field test, a steady-state analysis, and a transient analysis. Experimental results show that the line-to-line voltage on a 6.6 kV distribution line with an open-phase 22 kV transmission line amounts to 1.7 per unit. The overvoltages are caused by two types of resonance. One is the linear circuit resonance between the power-factor-correcting capacitors and the secondary side impedance of motors. The difference between positive components and negative ones of the impedance produces the resonance. The other is the nonlinear circuit resonance between the power factor-correcting capacitors and the saturated reactances of a transformer. © 1997 Scripta Technica, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 120(4): 59–65, 1997