Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing
weight increases with the voltage grade increasing, etc [1], [2].
Abstract--With the development of HVDC project in State The DC optical current transformer based on Faraday effect is
Strong Smart Grid, the Faraday magneto-optical effect optical not only able to overcome the above disadvanges, but also
current transformer has been paid more and more attention to.
convenient to connect with digital equipments. Therefore, the
However, the signal to noise bands overlap in original Faraday
DC optical current transformer is more suitable for DC
effect DC optical current transformer causes its measurement
accuracy to decrease. Therefore, this paper presents a Faraday
measurement and meets development of State Strong Smart
magneto-optical effect DC optical sensing method based on Grid.
modulation and demodulation. Moreover, a new Faraday effect As the original Faraday effect DC optical current
DC optical current transformer measurement system is deduced transformer has some problems, such as signal to noise bands
and designed on this basis. Subsequently, this paper mainly
overlap and temperature drift, its measurement accuracy
studies and designs an AC modulated optical source. With data
decreases. According to the problems, the Faraday magneto
acquisition and analysis of several experiments by LabVIEW, the
results prove that the optical source can steadily generate optical effect DC optical sensing method based on modulation
modulated light intensity. Based on the AC modulated optical and demodulation and a new type of Faraday DC optical
source, combined with the DSP technology, a complete DC optical current transformer measurement system is presented in this
current measurement system is formed. The practicality of the paper.
designed DC optical current transformer system has been tested
by experiments in this paper.
II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF FARADAY EFFECT OPTICAL
CURRENT TRANSFORMER (OCT)
Index Terms--AC modulated optical source, Data acquisition
and analysis , DSP technology , Faraday effect DC optical The Faraday effect principle is shown as Fig. 1.
current transformer measurement system , Faraday magneto
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I. INTRODUCTION
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development of HYDC project demands higher
requirements for DC current transformer. However, the
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traditional current transformer is still used for DC
measurement on most transmission systems. Although the ./' .. ' .
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Fig. 2. Faraday effect DC optical current transformer measurement
changed into as follows: system
I ' 7r
J1 =-Jo[1 +cos2«(} +-)]
2 4 The modulation signal used in the measurement system is
�
I , . I ,
= - Jo (1 - sm 2 0) "" -Jo(1- 20) = Jo(1- 20) s(t) =M] + M2 sinmt , where M]"? M2 . The
modulated optical
2 2
As (4) is substituted into (2), it can be concluded that: intensity J] is as follows:
J] =Jo(l-2N·V·i) (5) J]=Jo(M] + M2 sinat)(l- 2N· V· i)
(6)
III. FARADAY MAGNETO-OPTICAL EFFECT DC OPTICAL The optical intensity signal is changed into voltage signal
SENSING METHOD BASED ON MODULATION AND by the photodetector. It is assumed that Jo is corresponding to
DEMODULATION
voltage Uo. Then the voltage signal through the high-pass
From the equations above, it can be concluded that filter is:
emergent intensity signal � is determined by Jo and i. In DC Vo(t) =UOM2 sinmt(l-2N·V. i) (7)
measurement, if J� is generated by a DC source, the output Afterwards, the signal is demodulated with the
demodulation signal r(t) =M2 sinmt . The demodulated signal is
which is generated by superposition of J� and i is still DC
as following:
quantity. That is difficult to be distinguished. Meanwhile, as
Vi (t) = Vo(t)·r(t)
most of the noise on DC measurement equipments is low
=UOM2 sinmt(l-2N·V·i). M2 sinmt (8)
frequency noise, it is not able to be filtered when J� and i is
DC quantity. =.!.uoMi(l-2N·V·i)(l-cos2mt)
2
To overcome the above problems caused by noise bands With low-pass filtering, the final signal is:
overlap [4], Faraday magneto-optical effect DC optical sensing
method based on modulation and demodulation is presented. V(t) =.!.uoMi(l-2N·V·i) (9)
2
In this method, at first, frequency modulation and frequency From (9), it can be concluded that the output of the
shifting principle are used to make the signal frequency band measuring system is DC component. It indicates that the noise
away from the noise frequency band. In this paper, the optical of original signal is eliminated and this system is able to
source is modulated. Then the effect of noise is eliminated improve the measuring accuracy.
after filtered. Finally with demodulating the filtered signal, the For the LED is not able to emit light when negative voltage
original signal can be obtained. The noise bands overlap is imposed on it, an AC modulated optical source with
problem is able to be overcomed in this way, and the output modulation signal s(t) =M] + M2 sinat (M]"? M2 ) is used in this
signal to noise ratio of OCT is raised.
system.
V. AC MODULAlED OPTICAL SOURCE necessary to make the voltage signal change into current signal
The AC modulated optical source is the core part of the [6]. In order to make the optical source generate complete
Faraday effect DC optical current transformer measurement sinusoidal light intensity, through the adder circuit and the
system. Its hardware electrical graph is shown in Fig. 3. voltage following circuit, the voltage signal generated by the
signal source circuit is changed into sinusoidal current signal
which is positive in its whole period.
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LabVIEW Program on PC
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Fig. 10. Wiring diagram of DC optical current transformer measurement
Fig. 7. Unfiltered output of the photodetector
system
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�:; n n n n A n A A n With the DSP processing, the signal which is converted by
3.55-: photodetector is acquired by LabVIEW program.
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