A new protection scheme for PQ events prediction and classification in distribution system: A SSO-ANN strategy

Abstract

Increased utilization of nonlinear loads and fault event on the power system have resulted in a decline in the quality of power provided to the customers. It is fundamental to recognize and distinguish the power quality disturbances in the distribution system. To recognize and distinguish the power quality disturbances, the development of high protection schemes is required. This paper presents an optimal protection scheme for power quality event prediction and classification in the distribution system. The proposed protection scheme combines the performance of both the salp swarm optimization and artificial neural network. Here, artificial neural network is utilized in two phases with the objective function of prediction and classification of the power quality events. The first phase is utilized for recognizing the healthy or unhealthy condition of the system under various situations. Artificial neural network is utilized to perceive the system signal’s healthy or unhealthy condition under different circumstances. In the second phase, artificial neural network performs the classification of the unhealthy signals to recognize the right power quality event for assurance. In this phase, the artificial neural network learning method is enhanced by utilizing salp swarm optimization based on the minimum error objective function. The proposed method performs an assessment procedure to secure the system and classify the optimal power quality event which occurs in the distribution system. At that point, the proposed work is executed in the MATLAB/Simulink platform and the performance of the proposed system is compared with different existing techniques like Multiple Signal Classification-Artificial Neural Network (MUSIC-ANN), and Genetic Algorithm - Artificial Neural Network (GA-ANN). The comparison results demonstrate the superiority of the SSO-ANN technique and confirm its potential to power quality event prediction and classification.