Implementation of a digital directional Fault Passage Indicator

Author

Gonzalez de Miguel, Carlos ; De Rybel, Tom ; Driesen, Johan

Author_Institution

ESAT, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

fYear

2013

fDate

10-13 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

2075

Lastpage

2080

Abstract

Fault Passage Indicators (FPIs) are a cost effective solution to increase grid reliability. The connection of Distributed Generation units can lead them to misoperate and undermine the reliability improvements. Directional FPIs is a solution to overcome this problem. In this paper, the fault detection methods and direction-polarization principles for an isolated grid are described. As well, the implementation is done in Matlab-Simulink, from the signal processing techniques till the logic scheme for fault confirmation and automated reset. Some simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of such FPI.

Keywords

distributed power generation; fault diagnosis; performance evaluation; power distribution faults; power distribution reliability; power grids; signal processing; FPI; Matlab-Simulink implementation; automated reset; digital directional fault passage indicator; direction-polarization principle; distributed generation unit; fault confirmation; fault detection method; isolated grid reliability; performance evaluation; signal processing technique; Circuit breakers; Circuit faults; Fault currents; Fault detection; Radiation detectors; Reliability;

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.2013.6699451

Filename

6699451