Conference Article

·2016

Adaptive protection and relay coordination approaches for next generation electricity networks

Yavuz Ateş YTU , Ali Rıfat Boynueğri YTU

2016 National Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Biomedical Engineering (ELECO)

Abstract

Nowadays, microgrids composed of distributed generators including renewable energy sources have appeared as alternative to conventional electrical energy structure in terms of higher efficiency, reliability, sustainability, lower electrical losses and environmental pollution. However, one of the most significant obstacles that prevent the widespread application of microgrids is the insufficiency of conventional protection systems due to their variable and indefinite fault characteristics especially in islanding mode of operation. In the literature, there exist several solution proposals for this issue. However, when investigated; it is observed that there is a lack of a reliable, widely accepted and standard protection technique in the literature. In this concept, the protection and control issues in a smart grid system including different loads and several sources with distributed generation units have efficiently been realized in this thesis by employing smart controller.

Keywords

Renewable energy Islanding Distributed generation Relay Smart grid Reliability (semiconductor) Grid Reliability engineering Microgrid Electricity generation Electric power system Controller (irrigation) Sustainability Variable renewable energy Computer science Engineering Control engineering Risk analysis (engineering) Electrical engineering Business Power (physics)

Subject Areas

Islanding Detection in Power Systems ·Electrical and Electronic Engineering ·Physical Sciences
Power Systems Fault Detection ·Control and Systems Engineering ·Physical Sciences
Microgrid Control and Optimization ·Control and Systems Engineering ·Physical Sciences

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