Heresh SEYEDI, Saeed ASGHARIGOVAR, Shahram PARCHEHBAF DIBAZARI

Optimal coordination of overcurrent protection in the presence of SFCL and distributed generation

As power demand is increased, power generation and especially distributed generation (DG) are beingdeveloped. Therefore, power distribution systems become increasingly complicated and short circuit level in distributiongrids is being augmented. Thereby, installation of a superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) is a logical solutionto decrease the fault current level in a distribution network. Preventing distribution system degradation by high faultcurrents, lower equipment ratings, and economic issues are the advantages of SFCL in distribution grids. However, SFCLinstallation causes delayed operation of the existing overcurrent protection and requires recoordination of the relays. Inaddition, disconnecting the SFCL from the distribution circuit due to maintenance leads to miscoordination between theovercurrent relays. In this research work, a genetic algorithm (GA) is used to achieve optimal protection coordinationin the presence of both SFCL and DG. Furthermore, the uncertainty associated with the connection status of SFCL andDGs, which are reflected in the protection coordination, is investigated in detail. Moreover, various overcurrent relaycharacteristics, such as long-time inverse, extremely inverse, very inverse, and normally inverse, are used in a test powersystem, and remarkable computation results will be shown and discussed in the next parts of the paper.

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