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High impedance fault simulation in OpenDSS-G

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2020-08-11
2020-08-13
  • Juan Carlos Hernández Muñoz

    Good afternoon everyone, I am performing a protection coordination analysis, between fuses and recloser, I want to simulate a single-phase fault with a fault resistance of 40 ohms, is it possible to do it in OpenDSS-G or do I have to do it from the OpenDSS console?

     
  • Roger Dugan

    Roger Dugan - 2020-08-12

    I'm assuming you want to do a fault study at many buses.

    The fault definition for a 40-ohm fault would be something like this

    New Fault.F1 phases=1 Bus1=myBus.1 R=40

    Put a Monitor on the Fault to capture the current. if you are driving OpenDSS with the COM interface you can use your program to capture the fault currents..

    New Monitor.F1 Fault.F1 1

    After defining it like this, you can move the fault like this.

    Fault.F1.Bus1=AnotherBus.1
    Solve
    Sample ! capture the result with the Monitor
    Fault.F1.Bus1=ThirdBus.1
    Solve
    Sample ! capture the result with the Monitor
    ...
    Save ! close the Monitor

    You generally don't want more than one fault active at a time. I will make a list of node names with Export NodeNames. Then use a good text editor to create a script file for putting the fault at the nodes you want and execute it with the Redirect Command. You can do this from OpenDSS-G as well as other forms of OpenDSS.

    There may be a more elegant way to do this in OpenDSS-G, but I'll let Davis supply the answer.

     
    • Juan Carlos Hernández Muñoz

      Gracias Roger y Davis, con sus indicaciones logre simular la falla con una
      impedancia de falla y ver el efecto en un fusible, les adjunto una imagen
      de los resultados.

      Atentamente,

      Juan Carlos

      El mar., 11 ago. 2020 a las 20:49, Roger Dugan ( rdugan@users.sourceforge.net) escribió:

      I'm assuming you want to do a fault study at many buses.

      The fault definition for a 40-ohm fault would be something like this

      New Fault.F1 phases=1 Bus1=myBus.1 R=40

      Put a Monitor on the Fault to capture the current. if you are driving
      OpenDSS with the COM interface you can use your program to capture the
      fault currents..

      New Monitor.F1 Fault.F1 1

      After defining it like this, you can move the fault like this.

      Fault.F1.Bus1=AnotherBus.1
      Solve
      Sample ! capture the result with the Monitor
      Fault.F1.Bus1=ThirdBus.1
      Solve
      Sample ! capture the result with the Monitor
      ...
      Save ! close the Monitor

      You generally don't want more than one fault active at a time. I will make
      a list of node names with Export NodeNames. Then use a good text editor to
      create a script file for putting the fault at the nodes you want and
      execute it with the Redirect Command. You can do this from OpenDSS-G as
      well as other forms of OpenDSS.

      There may be a more elegant way to do this in OpenDSS-G, but I'll let
      Davis supply the answer.


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  • Juan Carlos Hernández Muñoz

    Good morning, a query, how can I simulate transient faults, that is, that have a specific duration, to verify the operation of a recloser and a fuse? and what kind of simulation should I do?

    Best regards

    Juan Carlos

     
    • Davis Montenegro

      Hello,

      In this video:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTOeUUa1vxM

      At 15:20 you will find the procedure for incorporating faults and see the recloser tripping in time. But if what you want to see is EMT, in that case OpenDSS cannot do that. What we can do is to simulate electromechanical transients in dynamic mode, including generators, but that's not EMT.

      Best regards

      Davis

       

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