The application discloses a reactive compensation cabinet
capacitor overheat protection device and method based on
harmonic current, belongs to the technical field of reactive compensation of
electric power systems, and realizes real-time collection of
power grid current through the reactive compensation cabinet, separates
harmonic current components, calculates the effective value of the
harmonic current, calculates the current harmonic equivalent time value of the input
capacitor based on the effective value of the harmonic current, the preset harmonic
current threshold value and the time interval of the sampled harmonic current, so that when the effective value of the harmonic current is greater than the harmonic
current threshold value, the current harmonic equivalent time value is positive, otherwise, the current harmonic equivalent time value is negative, when the effective value of the harmonic current is equal to the harmonic
current threshold value, the current harmonic equivalent time value is zero, the current harmonic equivalent time value of the input
capacitor is accumulated, and when the obtained cumulative harmonic current equivalent time value is greater than the maximum allowed harmonic working time threshold value, a capacitor removal control instruction is generated to remove the capacitor.