The calculations of conductive noise and heating of the screen in a control cable

Аннотация

Lighting strokes and short circuits (SCs) are the main sources of conductive noise that propagates along control cables and can lead to the failure of microprocessor equipment in the protection and control systems of electric power substations. Two-sided grounding of the screen of a control cable substantially reduces the pulse and high-frequency conductive noise level, but leads to heating of the screen under short-circuit conditions. The existing standards determine the conductive noise and screen heating as a function of screen voltage that is suitable for a single cable. A more general case that takes into account the cable magnetic coupling with other conductors when current is used as a calculation parameter has been considered. The conductive noise at the first pulse of lightning current is determined using the transfer impedance “screen–cable core” or 3D cable model in the general case. To calculate the heating, the formula of GOST (State Standard) 28895-91, which is rejected in modern standards because of the assumption that short-circuit current is invariable (in fact, the current decreases with heating of the screen), has been used. Using this formula in a step algorithm leads to correct results. The cable magnetic coupling with other conductors is expressed as insertion impedance that increases the screen impedance and decreases the current and screen heating. A numerical experiment for a typical cable has shown that conductive noise and heating of the screen of the cable can be substantially reduced because of the parallel laying of conductors. It has been concluded that, to decrease the conductive noise and heating of the screen of a control cable, it is necessary to decrease the screen current.