학술논문

Processing Magnetometer Signals for Accurate Wide-Area Geomagnetic Disturbance Monitoring and Resilience Analysis
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery IEEE Trans. Power Delivery Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on. 36(4):2550-2558 Aug, 2021
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Magnetometers
Magnetic field measurement
Signal to noise ratio
Magnetic separation
Power transformers
Geomagnetic disturbances
geomagnetically induced current (GIC)
monitoring
denoise
despike
time derivative
magnetometer
Language
ISSN
0885-8977
1937-4208
Abstract
Geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) can disrupt the operation of power systems by inducing a quasi-dc voltage and generating geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) in a vast area of the power systems. This gives rise to the importance of wide-area monitoring of magnetic field on earth's surface. Assessment of power system resiliency against GMDs requires an accurate calculation of GIC flows, which is achieved by wide-area monitoring of the magnetic field B , and processing the B signals that are recorded by magnetometers on the earth's surface. In this paper, a method is proposed to denoise the B signal. Spikes in the signal are detected using a stationary wavelet transform and then replaced. Time derivative of B signal is taken by a continuous wavelet transform to prevent amplification of the noises. Furthermore, a quantitative analysis is performed to detect the optimum sampling frequency to overcome the practical limitations associated with transmitting the recorded B signal and to modify peaks of ${\boldsymbol{dB}}/{\boldsymbol{dt}}$ signal negligibly. It is demonstrated that a sampling frequency of 1/15 Hz satisfies these conditions. Finally, GICs in a 118-bus benchmark power system are calculated with respect to a realistic geomagnetic storm to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed signal processing method.