Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2015-10-01T13:21:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoPradoDeMedeiros_DISSERT.pdf: 23036779 bytes, checksum: a7e3d6bc86f0611a2e27faca2dc99a1e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elisangela Moura (lilaalves@gmail.com) on 2015-10-01T13:35:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoPradoDeMedeiros_DISSERT.pdf: 23036779 bytes, checksum: a7e3d6bc86f0611a2e27faca2dc99a1e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-01T13:35:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoPradoDeMedeiros_DISSERT.pdf: 23036779 bytes, checksum: a7e3d6bc86f0611a2e27faca2dc99a1e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-05-26 / Cerca de 10% das faltas envolvendo o sistema el?trico ocorrem em transformadores de pot?ncia. Portanto, a prote??o aplicada aos transformadores de pot?ncia ? essencial para garantir o funcionamento cont?nuo desse dispositivo e a efici?ncia do sistema el?trico. Dentre as fun??es de prote??o aplicadas em transformadores, a prote??o diferencial aparece como um dos principais esquemas, apresentando confi?vel discrimina??o entre faltas internas e faltas externas ou condi??es de carregamento nominal do sistema. Por?m, a principal dificuldade dos m?todos de prote??o convencional consiste na demora para detec??o dos eventos. Contudo, faltas internas, faltas externas e os demais eventos apresentam transit?rios, podendo ser apropriadamente analisados pela transformada wavelet. Neste trabalho ? proposto o desenvolvimento de um esquema de prote??o diferencial de transformadores baseado na transformada wavelet para detec??o e identifica??o de faltas externas, faltas internas e energiza??o do transformador usando a energia dos coeficientes wavelets das correntes diferenciais. Os resultados revelam as vantagens da utiliza??o da transformada wavelet na prote??o diferencial em rela??o ? prote??o convencional, uma vez que ela prov? confiabilidade e rapidez na detec??o desses eventos. / About 10% of faults involving the electrical system occurs in power transformers. Therefore, the protection applied to the power transformers is essential to ensure the continuous operation of this device and the efficiency of the electrical system. Among the protection functions applied to power transformers, the differential protection appears as one of the main schemes, presenting reliable discrimination between internal faults and external faults or inrush currents. However, when using the low frequency components of the differential currents flowing through the transformer, the main difficulty of the conventional methods of differential protection is the delay for detection of the events. However, internal faults, external faults and other disturbances related to the transformer operation present transient and can be appropriately detected by the wavelet transform. In this paper is proposed the development of a wavelet-based differential protection for detection and identification of external faults to the transformer, internal faults, and transformer energizing by using the wavelet coefficient energy of the differential currents. The obtained results reveal the advantages of using of the wavelet transform in the differential protection compared to conventional protection, since it provides reliability and speed in detection of these events.