Combined current and voltage transformer for a metal-enclosed gas-insulated high-voltage switching station

• US 5,432,438 A
• Filed: 06/26/1992
• Issued: 07/11/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG (ABB Limited)
• Original Assignee: ASEA Brown Boveri SA de CV (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Haffner, Ken Y., Baumgartner, Rudolf, Kaczowski, Andrzej
• Primary Examiner(s): Wieder, Kenneth A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BOWSER, BARRY
• Application Number:
  US07/904,863
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• Field of Search: 324/127, 324/142, 324/17, 336/84 C, 340/538, 340/657, 340/539, 340/870.38, 340/870.17, 364/464, 364/492, 364/483
• US Class Current: 324/127
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/142 Arrangements for simultaneous measurements of several parameters employing techniques covered by groups G01R15/14 - G01R15/26
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/18 using inductive devices, e.g. transformers
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 15/181 using coils without a magnetic core, e.g. Rogowski coils
• CPC Class Codes: H01F 38/36 Constructions

Abstract

A combined current and voltage transformer for a metal-enclosed, gas-insulated high-voltage switching station. It has a current and voltage sensor (10) and a signal processing device connected following the current and voltage sensor (10). A coil (14) wound in the shape of a torus serves as current sensor, and a hollow cylindrical test electrode (15) serves as voltage sensor. After installation of the current and voltage sensor (10) in the metal enclosure (4), the coil (14) and test electrode (15) concentrically surround a conductor (5) of the switching station. This combined current and voltage transformer is cost effective in production, has small dimensions, and a high measurement accuracy. This is achieved when the current and voltage sensors are constructed such that signals corresponding to the temporal variation in the current to be determined and in the voltage to be determined are present at their outputs, and the signal processing device has at least one integration device on which the output signals of the current and voltage sensors (10) act.

Claims

1. A combined current and voltage transformer for metal-enclosed, gas-insulated high-voltage switchgear comprising:

a tubular metal enclosure at ground potential and filled with an insulating gas;

a current sensor enclosed and supported by said enclosure and containing a shielded Rogowski coil, which after installation in the metal enclosure concentrically surrounds a high-voltage conductor of the switchgear;

a voltage sensor enclosed and supported by said enclosure and containing a hollow cylindrical test electrode which after installation in the metal enclosure concentrically surrounds the high-voltage conductor of the switchgear and which is part of a capacitive voltage divider containing;

a high-voltage capacitor formed by the high-voltage conductor and the test electrode;

a low-voltage capacitor formed by the test electrode and the metal enclosure as well as the shield of the Rogowski coil; and

an ohmic resistor having a first end electrically connected to the test electrode and having a second end electrically connected to the metal enclosure and the shield of the Rogowski coil for forming signals at the output of the voltage sensor which are proportional to the temporal variation in the high voltage of the high voltage conductor; and

a signal processing device connected to the current sensor and to the voltage sensor and having at least one integration device on which the output signals of the current sensor and of the voltage sensor act

2. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in claim 1, wherein a filter element, constructed as a low-pass filter or bandpass filter, and an overvoltage protection are connected in each case between the outputs of the current and voltage sensors and the input of the at least one integration device.

3. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in in claim 2, wherein the low-pass filter or bandpass filter is connected downstream of the ohmic resistor.

4. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in claim 3, wherein the low-pass filter is constructed as an RC element.

5. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in claim 4, wherein a nonlinear resistor is connected in parallel to the capacitor of the RC element.

6. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in claim 1, wherein two integration devices are provided, to a first of which the output signals of the current sensor can be applied, and to a second of which the output signals of the voltage sensor can be applied.

7. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in claim 1, wherein the output signals of the current sensor and of the voltage sensor can be applied to the at least one integration device in a temporally interleaved fashion.

8. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in claim 7, wherein the at least one integration device contains a digital IIR filter.

9. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in claim 1 in which the high-voltage capacitor, the low-voltage capacitor and the ohmic resistor are dimensioned such that above a prescribed threshold frequency the amplitudes of the signals at the output of the voltage sensor are below a prescribed amplitude limiting value.

10. The current and voltage transformer as claimed in claim 9, wherein the threshold frequency is determined by the following relationship:

f_g =1/2π

R₁ (C₁ +C₂), where

f_g signifies the threshold frequency in hertz,

R₁ signifies the value of the ohmic resistor in ohms, and

C₁ and C₂ signify the values of the high-voltage and low-voltage capacitors in farads.