1. Protecting Distribution Systems With Inverter-Interfaced PV Plants Using Q-Axis Components.
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Mishra, Priyanka, Singh, Parul, Pradhan, Ashok Kumar, and Bajpai, Prabodh
- Abstract
Satisfying fault ride-through requirements, solar photovoltaic (PV) plant remains connected to the grid even during a fault. With current limiting feature, the plant current during a fault becomes comparable to its rated current. This imposes challenges to conventional local data-based protection methods employed in the relay on PV-side. In such a situation, the selectivity of a protection scheme is crucial for maintaining an uninterrupted supply to customers. In this article, a q-axis component-based protection scheme is proposed for the distribution system with a PV plant. The method extracts the second-order harmonic components of q-axis voltage and current at relaying point for fault detection and direction identification. Using this direction information at both ends of a line segment to be protected, internal and external faults are discriminated. The performance of the proposed method is tested on 14-bus distribution system for various fault cases. A comparative analysis with existing techniques shows the strength of the proposed method. Hardware-in-loop testing using OPAL-RT simulator as system and Arduino NANO microcontroller as relay validates the performance of the proposed method in real-time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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