Modeling of transient caused by lightning strike at Nias high voltage substation using ATP-EMTP case study

Abstract

Lightning has always been a dangerous threat to power system equipment consisting of: power plants, substations, transmission lines and distribution lines. Commonly, the overhead high voltage transmission line is subjected to lightning strikes. Therefore the protection level against lightning is determined based on the level of insulation of equipment. To prevent damage due the equipment due to a lightning strike, an arrester is used. In this study, three models of arrester are used as comparison viz. IEEE arrester model, Micaela arrester model and Karbalaye arrester model. The system were simulated by using the Alternative Transients Program (ATP) software. The results show that the lightning arrester is declared successful in protecting the transmission system, where the three lightning arresters have Margin Protection (MP) arrester which reaches 28%. In the simulation, it is known that the IEEE and Karbalaye arrester successfully breakdown the lightning current in transmission system so that the transient overvoltage recorded on the transformer does not exceed the Basic Insulation Level (BIL) value of the transformer. While the Pincenti arrester has also succeeded in reducing the voltage on the system but its value is greater than the transformer BIL of the substation, Teluk Dalam, Nias