Double interpolation anti-skew compensation of sampled analog data points in a protective relay

摘要

A protective relay system comprises current and voltage transducers 10, filters 12, and a multiplexor 14, the latter outputting an interleaved stream of analog phase current and voltage signal samples, as well as neutral current samples. The analog multiplex output by the multiplexor 14 is digitized by an analog-to-digital converter 16. The output of the analog-to-digital converter 16 is fed to a digital signal processing block 18. The multiplexor necessarily introduces a time-skew between the successive samples for each channel and also introduces a time-skew between the respective channels. The system corrects the sample-to-sample time-skew for each channel, and then derives current and voltage phasors from the time-skew corrected data.