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Published in IET Electric Power Applications
Received on 23rd April 2010
Revised on 19th January 2011
doi: 10.1049/iet-epa.2010.0114
ISSN 1751-8660
Abstract: To accurately simulate fast transient phenomena in transformer windings, a turn-to-turn-based multiple transmission
line (MTL) model is regarded as the best approach because it is valid in a wide frequency range and capable to describe
discontinuity of capacitive coupling among the turns of a non-uniform winding. However this MTL modelling approach also
means that a series of large dimensional equations characterised by fully coupled admittance matrices need to be numerically
dealt with, when simulating a winding typically having thousands of turns. In this study an improved lumped Resistor-
Inductor-Capacitor (RLC) model is presented, which has lower computational complexity than but almost equal accuracy to
the MTL model. Firstly, both the MTL and conventional lumped RLC model were compared and it was concluded that the
conventional lumped RLC model is only valid in the frequency range below 2 MHz. Secondly, an improved lumped RLC
model was derived in which a negative-value capacitive branch is added in parallel with the inductive branch to compensate
the decrease of susceptance with the increase of frequency. Both numerical analysis and laboratory measurements were
conducted on large power transformer windings, and it is confirmed that the valid frequency range of the improved lumped
RLC model can be extended to about 4 MHz with no significant increase of computational cost.
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unanswered on how to introduce the electromagnetic Let
coupling between sub-models or at the turn-ends of the disc
coils and how to guarantee the consistency of the
sL
electromagnetic field conditions at those boundaries. Y1 = P tanh W −1
2 (6)
The objective of this paper focuses on developing a model
−1 −1
with less complexity and higher validity of frequency to meet Y2 = P sinh (sL) W
the requirements of modelling core-type EHV and UHV
power transformers for fast transient simulations. The
Then, (5) can be rewritten as
model development and its parameter calculations are based
on transformer design parameters instead of measurement
data of the already built transformers [21] so that the I S = Y 1 U S + Y 2 (U S − U R )
proposed model and corresponding algorithm can be used I R = Y 1 U R + Y 2 (U R − U S ) (7)
during transformer design stage. In contrast to the shell-
form transformers and the core-type distribution The p-type equivalent circuit of (7) in the frequency domain
transformers, the core-type EHV and UHV power is given in Fig. 1.
transformers have more complex grade-insulated winding
structures that is a combination of inter-shielded disc coils
or interleaved disc coils and plain disc coils. Hence, the 2.2 Two-port expressions of RLC model
subdivision of a winding can only be implemented either
on coil basis or on turn basis. It is the general expectation The two-port equivalent circuit of the turn-based lumped
that any model developed should be able to represent the RLC model for a winding is shown in Fig. 2 and its
EHV and UHV transformer windings with a valid equations are shown in (8), where L, R, C and G are the
frequency range up to several MHz. inductance, resistance, capacitance and conductance N × N
matrices, which are calculated on turn basis. R is a matrix
with only non-zero diagonal element, whereas L, C and G
2 Comparison of turn-based MTL model are full matrices because of the mutual coupling among the
and RLC model turns. If the average length of the turns is transformed to
the ‘unit length’, say 1 m (leaving the actual length out to
2.1 Two-port expressions of MTL model be treated as a constant separately), then the matrices of L,
R, C and G become the same in (1) and (8)
The equations of turn-basis MTL model in the frequency
domain can be written as ⎧
⎪ 1
⎨ I S = (G + sC)U S + (R + sL)−1 (U S − U R )
⎧ 2 (8)
⎪ dU ⎪
⎩ I = 1 (G + sC)U + (R + sL)−1 (U − U )
⎨ = −(sL + R) I = −ZI R R R S
dx (1) 2
⎪
⎩ dI = −(sC + G) U = −Y U
dx 2.3 Comparison between two models
where U, I are the voltage and current vectors, L, R, C and The coefficients of (7) and (8) are compared in Table 1.
G are the ‘unit-length’ inductance, resistance, capacitance In fact, if |sL| ≪ 1, then we have
and conductance N × N matrices, where N is the number of
turns in a winding. coth(sL) ≃ (sL)−1 + 0.5sL or coth(sL) − sinh−1 (sL)
Let P and W be the phase-mode transformation matrices = tanh(0.5sL) ≃ 0.5sL (9)
of I and V, respectively, and they satisfy
W −1 ZY W = P −1 YZP = s2 L2 (2)
sL = P −1 Y W = W −1 ZP (3)
W T P = PT W = L (4)
Fig. 1 p-type equivalent circuit of MTL model
where L = diag(l1 , . . . , lj , . . . , lN ), lj is the inverse of jth
mode velocity and s is the complex frequency.
An expression of two-port equations can be obtained from
(1) as
I S = P coth(sL) W −1 U S − P sinh−1 (sL) W −1 U R
(5)
I R = −P sinh−1 (sL) W −1 U S + P coth(sL) W −1 U R
where IS and US are the current vector and the voltage vector
at the sending end and IR and UR are the current vector
and the voltage vectors at the receiving end of the turn, Fig. 2 Equivalent two-port circuit of conventional turn-based
respectively. lumped RLC model
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Table 1 Comparison of parameters in (7) and (8) and the coefficients for the RLC model are
Y1 Y2
Y11 = P[(sL)−1 + 0.5sL] W −1 , Y12 = −P(sL)−1 W −1
21 21 21
MTL model P tanh(0.5sL)W P sinh (sL)W
(15)
RLC model 0.5(G + sC) (R + sL)21
From (14) and (15), the relative error made by using the RLC
model to approximate the MTL model can be estimated by
and
coth(sl) − [(sl)−1 + 0.5 sl]
err1 = (16)
sinh−1 (sL) ≃ (sL)−1 (10) coth(sl)
sinh−1 (sl) − (sl)−1
In this case, using (3), Y1 and Y2 in (6) approximate to
err2 = (17)
sinh−1 (sl)
Y1 = P tanh(0.5 sL) W −1 ≃ 0.5 sP LW −1
Let s ¼ jv, note that sinh21(sl ) ¼ 2jsin21(vl ) and
= 0.5 (sC + G) (11) coth(sl ) ¼ 2jcot(vl), then take lmax of the windings
given in Table 2, the err1 and err2 defined in (16) and (17)
are shown in Figs. 3a and b.
Y2 = P sinh−1 (sL) W −1 ≃ s−1 PL−1 W −1 It is clearly seen that since the diameter of Winding 1 is the
= (sL + R)−1 (12) smallest among the three windings, its turn-based RLC model
is a very good approximation to the MTL model for the
frequencies up to 4 MHz. However, the err1 and err2 at
Equations (11) and (12) show that the turn-based RLC model around 2 MHz for both Windings 2 and 3 become
is equivalent to the turn-based MTL model under the considerably large. This clearly demonstrates that the
condition of |sL| ≪ 1. Since the diagonal elements of L
represent the inverse of mode velocity or the transmission
time along a line of 1 m length, the condition of |sL| ≪ 1
hence implies that the shorter the line length, the higher
frequency the RLC model is valid for.
Table 2 shows the calculated minimum and maximum
diagonal elements in L of three typical windings. Winding
1 is an air-core winding with its average diameter of
0.523 m; Winding 2 is the HV winding of an EHV power
transformer, which has an average diameter of 1.83 m; and
Winding 3 is the HV winding of a UHV power transformer,
which has an average diameter of 2.57 m. The numbers of
turns for the three windings are 394, 506 and 940,
respectively. These three typical windings are to be used
throughout this paper for both model derivations and model
validations.
Using the condition of vlmax ≤ 1 and the lmax of Winding
3, we can obtain that f ≤ 3 MHz. This means that the valid
frequency range is within 3 MHz, in the case that Winding
3 is modelled by the RLC model on turn-to-turn basis.
Since the transient response is determined by all l, using
lmax to estimate the valid frequency range of the RLC
model is reasonable and sufficient.
Both (7) and (8) can be written in the same form as
I S = Y11 U S + Y12 U R
(13)
I R = Y12 U S + Y11 U R
Winding 1 2 3
lmin/1028
0.2692 1.020 1.247 Fig. 3 Relative error of item of RLC to MTL model
lmax/1028 2.194 5.169 5.289 a Y11 – err1(f)
b Y12 – err2(f)
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conventional lumped RLC model is not capable to model EHV From (23) and (24), we obtain k1 . 0.333 and k2 ,– 0.167.
and UHV transformer windings for fast transient studies. However both inequalities could not simultaneously match
the condition of k1 2 k2 ¼ 0.5. Since k1 should be
3 Improved lumped RLC model determined within 0.333 , k1 , 0.5, hence the inequality
of k2 , – 0.167 will not be used in determining the values
In order to increase the valid frequency range of the lumped of k1 and k2 .
RLC model, the basic idea is to modify the conventional Based on the above considerations, assume the upper limit
lumped RLC model to make it become a more accurate of frequency fu ¼ 5 MHz and take lmax of Winding 3 which
approximation to the MTL model. is the largest winding size being ever found so far, we obtain
Let x ¼ sl, cothx and sinh21x can then be expressed as
x = j2p × 5 × 106 × 5.289 × 10−8 = j1.662
1 1 2 5
coth x = x−1 + x − x3 + x − ··· (18)
3 45 945 Let function f (x) ¼ coth x 2 x 21 ≃ k1x and take 1000
samples in the range of 0 , x , j1.6, the coefficient k1 can
1 7 3 31 5
sinh−1 x = x−1 − x + x − x − ··· (19) be solved by the following equation
6 360 15 120
N
Both (18) and (19) are convergent in the range of 2
min(err{f }) = min [f (xi ) − k1 xi ] and
0 , |x| , p. i=1
With the help of (18) and (19), equations (9) and (10) can
be modified to achieve the goal of making the RLC model a d
N
[f (x ) − k1 xi ]2 = 0
better approximation to the MTL model. Consequently, it is dk1 i=1 1 i
proposed to modify the RLC model through the following
three steps.
we obtain
Firstly, a simpler form of the approximation is assumed as
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Table 3 Basic data of winding under test this wide-frequency less computationally costly model
should also be able to represent not only shell-form
number of discs 50
transformer windings and core-type distribution transformer
number of turns per disc 628
windings but also grade-insulated EHV and UHV core-type
inner diameter, mm 500
transformer windings.
outer diameter, mm 546
To create such a useful simulation tool for fast transient
Height, mm 855
analysis, an improved turn-based lumped RLC model is
working turn conductor, mm 1.8 × 11.8
proposed in this paper. By comparing the conventional
shielded turn conductor, mm 1.18 × 11.8
turn-based lumped RLC model with the MTL model, it is
working turn insulation thickness, mm 0.95
concluded that conventional RLC models can only be valid
shielded turn insulation thickness, mm 1.35
in the frequency range up to 2 MHz for large power
insulation gaps between discs, mm 4–6
transformer windings. Deriving from the two-port
expression of MTL model, the lumped RLC model is
improved by adding a negative-value capacitive branch in
parallel with the inductive branch, which compensates the
decrease of the susceptance of the inductive branch with the
increase of frequency. By taking the MTL model as
the reference, the comparisons show that without increasing
the complexity of the solution, the valid frequency range
of the improved RLC model is extended to about 4 MHz
for large power transformer windings. The laboratory
measurements have also confirmed the effectiveness of the
improved lumped RLC model for fast transient simulations.
6 Acknowledgments
The authors wish to express their gratitude to the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 50577034
and Grant no. 51077084), TBEA Shenyang Transformer
Group Co., Ltd and Baoding Tianwei Baobian Electric Co.,
Ltd for their financial and technical support towards this
piece of research work. Due appreciation is given to Dr K.J.
Cornick for proofreading this manuscript.
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