2016 International Symposium on Computer, Consumer and Control

The Calculation of 750kV Transmission Line Parameters

Based on ATP-(073 Simulation
Zhou-Xing Fu#, Di Ju#, Yun-Ge Li*
#
School of Electrical and Control Engineering, Xi'an University of Science and Technology
58 North Yanta Road
1
fuzx@xust.edu.cn
2
120678652@qq.com
*
Shaanxi Electric Power Research Institute
112 North Art Road, Xi'an, China
3
1511715153@qq.com

AbstractTransmission line is one of the major components of

The height of tower from the centre of the wire to the
the power system. It is great significance to accurately obtain the ground: 36.2 m
frequency power parameters of transmission line for the entire The height from span intermediate wire centre to the
power system to operate safely and reliably. In order to acquire ground: 18m
the power frequency parameters of 750kV overhead line, a new The height of tower from ground-wire centre to the ground:
method is proposed in this paper. This method gets the 50.6m
transmission line parameters by artificially eliminating the The height of span middle ground-wire centre to the ground:
ground wires. Namely through steady calculation , the head end 38m
of voltage and current parameters of the lines are obtained, next 2) Transmission line
transmission line parameters equal the voltage value divided by
Inside radius of the transmission line: 0.4cm
the current value. In this paper, the author does a simulation to
calculate the 750kV transmission line parameters by ATP-EMTP, Outside radius of the transmission line: 1.3815cm
and out of this comes the transmission line parameters derivation The transmission line of DC resistance per unit length:
formula, which is also verified by using ATP-EMTP model, and 0.07232 /km DC
ensures the correctness of the calculation. The divide transmission line spacing: 40 cm
KeywordsATP-EMTP; simulation; ground wires elimination; A line at any the angle of location belongs to the wire
transmission line parameters bundle (As traverse beam centre is the origin and calculated
according the anti-clockwise starting from the horizontal
I. INTRODUCTION line):0 degree
Currently in 750kV overhead line engineering, we usually The number of bundled conductors: 6
use the method that take two ground wires grounding. One 3) Ground wire
wire is optical fiber composite overhead ground wire (OPGW)  OPGW, type is OPGW2S1/24
another one is common ground wire (CGW). Type of Cross-sectional area 88.76 mm2
groundings: OPGW is earthed at each tower and CGW is Inside radius: 0
earthed at each section. For the transmission line that different Outside radius: 0.63cm
type of groundings with two ground-wires, the existing Direct-current resistance 0.682/km20
programs of ATP-EMTP cannot calculate the line parameters  Common ground, type is GJ-80
directly. Thus, this paper proposes a new method of Cross-sectional area 78.94 mm2
eliminating ground-wires artificially to calculate transmission Inside radius0
line parameters. Outside radius0.575 cm
II. CALCULATION OF TRANSMISSION LINE IMPEDANCE Direct-current resistance2.13/km20
PARAMETERS 4) Others
Earth resistivity50m;
A. Transmission line and Tower Parameters The length of line100km
The discussion transmission line is a strip of 750 kV
overhead transmission line and the route adopts that 6 bundled B. Transmission line Impedance Matrix
conductors. Two ground wires, which one is OPGW with In the system of obtains 750 kV voltages and 5
grounding at each tower, and another one that is ordinary transmission lines impedance matrix equation, we can get the
ground wire with grounding at each section. formula (1). The next we can set the transmission line
The following parameters for the transmission line tower: impedance parameter matrix for Z5*5, and OPGW is the
1) Transmission line tower ground wire 1, common ground (CGW) is ground wire 2.

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 U A IA Z1 Z Z
2 2
U B IB (1) Z2 Z 1 Z 2 Z M
= =
U C Z 55 I C Z 55 Z 2 Z 2 Z 1
U 01 I 01 Z 3 Z 5


Z Z Z4
U 02 I 02 M 5

In this equation, UA, UB, UC is phase voltage, IA, IB, IC is

C. Ground Wires Elimination
phase current, U01, U02 is voltage on the ground wire, and
I01,I02 is current on the ground wire. In situation that 750 kV lines of the two ground wires,
In this paper, using ATP-EMTP method to simulate the OPGW is earthed at each tower and CGW is earthed at each
tower under 750 kV and with single circuit transmission line, section. We can get the result is that OPGW voltage is 0 and
meanwhile consider the case of transmission line transposition. CGW current is 0. The line matrix equation can be written as
Fig.1 is a 750 kV transmission line, and now passing into the U A Z 1 Z Z I A
2 2
amplitude of the current 1A for the left ends of line A, B, C U B Z 2 Z 1 Z 2 Z M I B

and two ground wires respectively. The Line right ends are U C = Z 2 Z 2 Z 1 I C
grounded. Then take measured the voltage value of each left 0 Z 3 Z 5 I 01

end of lines, thus the voltage values are the any elements of U 02 Z M Z 5 Z 4 0
Z5*5 matrix. Expansion
U A
= Z 1 I A + Z 2 I B + Z 2 I C + Z M I 01 (2)

U B
= Z 2 I A + Z 1 I B + Z 2 I C + Z M I 01 (3)
 = Z 2 I A + Z 2 I B + Z 1 I C + Z M I 01 (4)
Fig.1 the circuit diagram of calculating Z5*5 matrix U C

Fig.1 expression that pass into 1A current from A phase 0 = Z M I A + Z M I B + Z M I C + Z 3 I 01 (5)

and then we can measure 5 voltage values. Using the 5 voltage (6)
U = Z M I A + Z M I B + Z M I C + Z 4 I 01
values as the first column elements of the Z5*5 matrix. In this 02

figure, the LCC uses Pi model, and selects division conductors 1) Positive Sequence Impedance
automatically constituted phase line. Meanwhile we should If IA, IB, IC is the positive sequence quantities, the result is
consider the skin effect. IA+IB+IC=0. From (5) to obtain I01= 0, then the formula (2) -
Running ATP- EMTP, the result is as follows: (6) can be written as
Begin steady-state printout of EMTP output variables. Node voltage outputs follow.
U = I (Z - Z )
A A 1 2

U B = I B (Z 1 - Z 2)
Bus Phasor Angle in Real Imaginary
name magnitude degrees part part
N1B 0.21655479E+00 77.817806 0.45697614E-01 0.21167831E+00
N1C
N1A
0.21655477E+00
0.49092263E+00
77.817806
83.220111
0.45697611E-01
0.57956083E-01
0.21167829E+00
0.48748961E+00 U = I (Z - Z )
C C 1 2
(7)
N3
N2
0.21199183E+00
0.21199180E+00
77.861368
77.861359
0.44577173E-01
0.44577198E-01
0.20725205E+00
0.20725201E+00 I 01 = 0
Thus, the first column elements of the Z5*5 matrix are U 02
=0
Z 11 0.058 + j 0.487 Set U,I as the phase voltages and phase currents respectively,

Z 12 0.046 + j 0.212 then
= j 0.212
Z 13 0.046 + =U = Z1 Z 2 (8)
Z 14 0.045 + j 0.207 Z +
I
Z 15 0.045 + j 0.207
Formula (7) is the basic equation of lines (positive sequence)
And then given B, C phase and two ground wires by passing that eliminating ground wires and formula (8) is the positive
a current through the above process, the last we can get Z5*5 sequence impedance parameters.
matrix, and the result is as follows. Take measured the current of OPGW with ATP-EMTP,
Z =55 and given A, B, C pass into a three-phase positive sequence
0.058 + j 0.487 0.046 + j 0.212 0.046 + j 0.212 0.045 + j 0.207 0.045 + j 0.207 current, the result as shown in Fig.2.

0.046 + j 0.212 0.058 + j 0.487 0.046 + j 0.212 0.045 + j 0.207 0.045 + j 0.207
0.046 + j 0.212 0.046 + j 0.212 0.058 + j 0.487 0.045 + j 0.207 0.045 + j 0.207

0.045 + j 0.207 0.045 + j 0.207 0.045 + j 0.207 2.17 + j 0.753 0.043 + j 0.192

0.045 + j 0.207 0.045 + j 0.207 0.045 + j 0.207 0.043 + j 0.192 0.725 + j 0.748
According to the law of elements in the matrix Z5*5, then the
Z5*5 matrix can be written as Fig.2 measuring the current of OPGW
Running results is: 
Node Source node voltage Injected source current Injected source power
name Rectangular Polar Rectangular Polar P and Q MVA and P.F.
N4
TERRA 0.0 0.0 -.3454896056E-7 .39489041247E-7 0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0 -.1912468831E-7 -151.0331380 0.0 0.0

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 The running results shown that from the current OPGW = 0.058 + j 0.487 + 2(0.046 + j 0.212)
3 (0.045 + j 0.207) 2
= 0.192 + j 0.871
(etc. measured on the 4th node current) is almost zero, and the Z 0
2.17 + j 0.753
theory derived I01=0 consistently. We can certify that the
Using ATP-EMTP built the circuit model as shown in Fig.4,
above derivation is correct. Namely verified the positive
we can pass into 750 kV line the amplitude of 1A zero-
sequence impedance with ground wires is unrelated. Similarly
sequence current and measure the three-phase voltage
available, the negative sequence impedance has nothing to do values.
with the ground wires.
2) Zero Sequence Impedance
If IA, IB, IC is zero sequence quantities, namely IA=IB=IC=I,
then the formula can be written as
U A = U B = U C = IZ 1 + 2Z 2) (9) Fig.4 access to the system the zero sequence current of the amplitude is 1A
U 01
= U 02 = 3Z M I Running results is:

Begin steady-state printout of EMTP output variables. Node voltage outputs follow.
(10) Bus Phasor Angle in Real Imaginary
U
Z 0 = = Z 1 + 2Z 2 name magnitude degrees part part
I N1A
N1B
0.89144566E+00
0.89144562E+00
77.564868
77.564868
0.19195869E+00
0.19195869E+00
0.87053272E+00
0.87053269E+00
Formula (9) is the basic equation of lines (zero sequence) that N1C 0.89144566E+00 77.564868 0.19195870E+00 0.87053273E+00
eliminating ground wires and formula (10) is the zero Namely that the value of each phase voltage is zero
sequence impedance parameters (zero sequence). sequence impedance values, and the results can be seen
Z0=0.192+j0.871. This result is consistent with the value of
III. VERIFICATION theory.
A. Positive Sequence Impedance
It is seen from the above derivation formula for the positive IV. CONCLUSIONS
sequence impedance In this paper, on the basis of the existing ground
= U =
elimination methods, author presents a new method that
Z + Z 1 Z 2
I artificial eliminate the ground wires. Namely through steady
calculation , the head end of voltage and current parameters of
Z1=0.058+j0.487, Z2=0.046+j0.212, substituted into the above the lines are obtained, next transmission line parameters equal
equation, the voltage value divided by the current value. Specific as: In
Z + = 0.058 + j 0.487
- 0 .046 + j 0 .212= 0.012 + j 0.275 this transmission line, passing into the AC 50HZ with the
positive sequence current of amplitude is 1A to the left end of
Now verified the derivation is correct or not by ATP-EMTP. phase line, and meanwhile the right end of phase line connect
Set up a circuit model in ATP-EMTP, and shown as Fig.3, we with the ground. In this situation, the positive-sequence
can pass into the amplitude of positive sequence current of 1A impedance of the line is the voltage of the current source. If
to 750KV overhead lines and measure the three-phase voltage the right end of line phase conductor open, the voltage of
values. current source is the line positive sequence capacitance.
Another case is that if the zero sequence current is applied and
ceteris paribus, the result is zero sequence parameters for the
line.
In this paper, based on the 750 kV double ground wires
Fig.3 access to the system the positive sequence current of the amplitude is (Type of grounding methods: OPGW is earthed at each tower
1A
and CGW is earthed at each section.) Author conducted a
The result is shown below: simulation for the transmission line and summary the formulas
Begin steady-state printout of EMTP output variables. Node voltage outputs follow.
Bus Phasor Angle in Real Imaginary of positive sequence impedance and zero sequence impedance
name magnitude degrees part part
N1A 0.27608359E+00 87.455160 0.12258453E-01 0.27581131E+00 respectively.
N1B 0.27608359E+00 -32.544843 0.23273037E+00 -0.14852180E+00 Positive sequence impedance :
N1C 0.27608360E+00 -152.544848 -0.24498885E+00 -0.12728949E+00
A phase of the voltage is positive sequence impedance = U =
Z + Z 1 Z 2

value, from the results can be seen Z + = 0.012 + j0.276, I

Zero sequence impedance:
which consistent with the theory of value. 2
3Z M
B. Zero Sequence Impedance Z 0
= Z 1 + 2Z 2 -
It is seen from the above derivation, the zero sequence Z 3

impedance is The calculation shows that this method is also applicable

2 for other double ground wires grounding ways.
= U A = Z 1 + 2Z 2-
3Z M
Z 0
I A Z 3
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