Novel Protection Scheme of Single-Phase Earth Fault for Radial Distribution Systems With Distributed Generators

This paper presents a new method based on the relay agent for single-phase earth fault protection in radial distribution systems with distributed generators. In order to get the most informative fault features to discriminate fault for this system, traditional protection schemes based on different fault features are analyzed. The selection of fault features is discussed. Moreover, the cluster center of historical fault data is calculated to analyze the space distribution of fault data for each feeder by applying a fuzzy clustering algorithm. The space relative distance between the online sample data and the cluster center and the minimum value of the space relative distance among all of the relays at the relay agent are obtained. Finally, the coordination strategy of the relay agent is proposed to discriminate the faulty feeder. The proposed protection scheme is evaluated in a radial distribution network with distributed generations using PSCAD simulation.