This paper studies the effects of symmetrical and unsymmetrical voltage sags on three-phase three-legged transformers. The transformer model includes saturation and the parameters have been obtained from experimental measurements. The study shows that sags can produce transformer saturation when voltage recovers. This saturation produces an inrush current that is similar to the inrush current produced during the transformer energizing. The study takes into account that the voltage recovery instant can take only discrete values, since the fault-clearing is produced in the natural current zeroes. The paper also studies the influence of the sag type, duration, depth and fault current angle on the inrush current peak value. The current peak has a periodical dependence on sag duration, and a linear dependence on depth. Unsymmetrical sags can result in current peaks as high as those of symmetrical sags.

Ferroresonance is one of the most destructive transient phenomena in power systems. This complex phenomenon involves the association of nonlinear magnetizing inductances and capacitances, and may be initiated in many different ways, which makes its characterization very difficult. This work links EMTP and MATLAB and presents some computer tools that have been developed for assessing ferroresonance behavior. These tools allow users to visualize 2-D and 3-D bifurcation diagrams which can be used for performing sensitivity analysis, predicting the phenomenon at different stages, and finding safety zones for power system parameter design.

This paper describes the effects of symmetrical voltage sags on three-phase three-legged transformers. The transformer model includes saturation and is based on experimental parameters. It has been implemented in PSpice. Voltage recovery after a voltage sag can produce transformer saturation. This saturation produces an inrush current similar to that of the transformer energizing. The variables that influence the peak value of the inrush current, namely depth, duration, and initial point-on-wave are studied. A result that must be emphasized is the periodical influence of the sag duration.

In this paper, a new control stra¬tegy is deve¬loped; an adaptive fuzzy controller based on Lyapunov's stability theory (AFLC) recalculates the real-time PI-fuzzy gains and combines ...

This work shows an alternative method to determine the Voltage Unbalance Factor in a power grid by using both the mean value of the line voltages and Current Unbalance Factor in induction motors. Twenty unbalanced voltage points on three induction motors were used in order to compare the two methods. The influence of the measurement error of both the voltmeters and the ammeters on the resulting Voltage Unbalance Factor was studied, and the validation was made with laboratory data for one of the three motors analyzed, in addition to the simulations carried out. The proposed Voltage Unbalance Factor was compared with the most typical method in the standards to obtain this factor, showing that the proposed factor has a better approach than the standard factor to determine the value of the Voltage Unbalance Factor in an unbalanced power system.