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Abstract

At different times, different devices were used as current sensors at electric power systems. However, the instrumental electromagnetic current transformers (CTs) proved more suitable and have been the most commonly adopted. The wide application of the CTs can also be justified by their reliability, subject to the operation rules. Accuracy and reliability of measured information sent from instrumental CTs are one of the important components for the correct operation of power system protection, data acquisition and telemetry systems, process control systems at electrical power facilities. There have been developed a lot of numerical methods for compensation of current transformer (CT) saturation. The article provides the comparison of several mathematical methods for secondary current restoration. The accuracy of different methods was analyzed under various conditions, namely, remaining flux, initial phase of short circuit current and noise presence. Linear combination of sine wave and aperiodic function was used as a test primary signal along with real short circuit current scope. Based on the performed analysis some recommendations and further development directions are stressed.

Keywords

Current transformers (CTs), distorted secondary current, magnetizing curve, compensated current, magnetizing current, unsaturated section.

Ismoil N. Odinaev

Research engineer, Postgraduate Student, Department of Automated Electrical Systems, Ural Federal University, Ural Power Engineering Institute, Yekaterinburg, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2434-1929.

Pavel V. Murzin

Assistant Professor, Department of Automated Electrical Systems, Ural Federal University, Ural Power Engineering Institute, Yekaterinburg, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1593-9833.

Andrey V. Pazderin

D.Sc. (Engineering), Professor, Head of the Department of Automated Electrical Systems, Ural Federal University, Ural Power Engineering Institute, Yekaterinburg, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-2387.

Valeriy A. Tashchilin

Ph.D. (Engineering), Leading Engineer, Associate Professor, Department of Automated Electrical Systems, Ural Federal University, Ural Power Engineering Institute, Yekaterinburg, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8763-3705

Aleksandar Sukalo

Ph.D. (Engineering), Elektroperenos - Elektroprijenos BiH, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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