The ground faults in the DC railway systems are ususally detected by a potential relay(64P). But It can not detect a fault if a fault occur with a fault resistance over a certain value. Moreover, if the rail potential goes high in the ordinary operati...
The ground faults in the DC railway systems are ususally detected by a potential relay(64P). But It can not detect a fault if a fault occur with a fault resistance over a certain value. Moreover, if the rail potential goes high in the ordinary operating state because of the traction load, the potential relay would be maloperated. A modified protective relaying algorithm that can identify exactly the faulted region and can distinguish a ground fault from the potential rising of the rail is presented in this paper The proposed algorithm is independent of the operating time difference of the potential relays.