IMPLEMENTATION OF DISTANCE PROTECTION RELAY USING PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLER FOR POWER SYSTEM FAULT DETECTION

Ahmed M.T.  Ibraheem

doi:10.30572/2018/KJE/170234

Authors

Ahmed M.T. Ibraheem Technical Engineering College, Mosul, Northern Technical University, Mosul, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30572/2018/KJE/170234

Keywords:

Protection, Distance relays, PLC, Zone, FBD, Impedance

Abstract

This paper presents the implementation of a distance protection relay using a programmable logic controller (PLC). Power systems widely use distance relays to detect and isolate faults based on the impedance between the relay and the fault location. By leveraging a PLC, the design benefits from flexibility, real-time processing, and integration with a monitoring system. The paper is mostly about using voltage and current inputs to figure out impedance, finding fault zones, and putting protection logic into place using the Function Block Diagram (FBD) in PLC programming environments. The proposed system is reliable, cost-effective, and easy to modify for various protection schemes

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