Modeling and simulation of air-gapped current transformer based on Preisach Theory

Current Transformer(CT)modeling,by which CT’s characteristics can be studied has a significant importance in CT selection and design.In spite of numerous studies about closed-core CT model,only a few works have been conducted on air-gapped ones with the following problems:models of which required data is easily-accessible,have poor simulations of magnetization process;on the contrary,models which have satisfactory simulations,are hard to be established because of the hard-to-get required data.Therefore,based on Preisach Theory,a novel air-gapped CT model is deduced from the closed core CT model.The proposed model is accurate and can be established easily.The saturation and remanence properties of closed-core CT and air-gapped CT are simulated and compared.