Technical and economical benefits of superconducting fault current limiters in power systems

Author

Noe, M. ; Oswald, B.R.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Technische, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

9

Issue

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1347

Lastpage

1350

Abstract

There is no doubt that superconducting fault current limiters (SFCL) will be used if their technical and economical benefits are high enough. Up to now a number of studies have been carried out to show suitable applications of SFCL but very few reports have been published on their technical and economical benefits in existing networks. This paper shows favourable places of SFCL in an urban network up to a voltage of 110 kV, lists technical benefits and calculates the economical savings. In the investigated network it was found that feeder locations of power stations and wind generators are the most economical places for SFCL.

Keywords

fault current limiters; power stations; power system economics; power system protection; superconducting devices; 110 kV; economical benefits; feeder locations; power stations; power systems protection; superconducting fault current limiters; technical benefits; wind generators; Capacitive sensors; Circuit faults; Fault current limiters; Impedance; Power generation; Power generation economics; Power system economics; Power system faults; Power system stability; Power system transients;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.783552

Filename

783552