A study on practical methods to decrease short circuit level in transmission grids

Author

Farrokhifar, M. ; Esmaeilzadeh, R. ; Heydari, M. ; Milani, A.R.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettron., Inf. e Bioingegneria, Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

10-13 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1962

Lastpage

1967

Abstract

Increased generation capacity along with entrance of new power plants to the grid has caused increase in the level of short circuit in transmission grid substations. In this paper, methods for decreasing fault current used theoretically and practically are gathered briefly first. Then, short circuit level is studied in transmission substations at Azerbaijan regional electricity company region in 2014 to introduce practical methods to decrease fault current. Short circuit level of mentioned transmission grid is analyzed using DIgSILENT and appropriate methods are proposed to decrease fault current.

Keywords

fault current limiters; power plants; power transmission faults; short-circuit currents; substations; Azerbaijan regional electricity company region; DIgSILENT; fault current; fault current limiter; generation capacity; power plants; short circuit level; transmission grid substations; Fault current limiters; Fault currents; Inductors; Limiting; Short-circuit currents; Substations; Switches; Azerbaijan electricity grid; DIgSILENT; Short circuit level; fault current limiter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2013.6699432

Filename

6699432