The Signal Injection Method with High-Frequency for Distribution Network Capacitive Current Measurement

In order to solve the problem of limited frequency selection range and simplify calculations on the grounded capacitance measurement for the ungrounded distribution system, a high-frequency injecting method for the capacitive current measurement is proposed in the paper. The injecting frequency can be high enough to ignore capacitive reactance and leakage resistance comparing with leakage inductance. The leakage inductance value is obtained directly on the base of simplified calculation. Then the resonant frequency of the power system needs to be obtained by the traditional resonant method. Finally, the grounded capacitance can be calculated through the equivalent circuit and the simultaneous equations. The simulation and experiments verify the feasibility of the high-frequency method. The experiment results prove that this method not only solves the problem of frequency selection, but also has advantages of convenience and high precision (the relative error is less than 5%), which is also suitable for the larger grounded capacitance system.