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Transient Analysis of AC and DC Microgrid with Effective of SFCL

Research Authors
Mahmoud Aref, Amir Abdelmeneam, Vladislav Oboskalov, Anatolijs Mahnitko, Aleksandrs Gavrilov
Research Member
Research Department
Research Year
2018
Research Journal
2018 IEEE 59th International Scientific Conference on Power and Electrical Engineering of Riga Technical University (RTUCON)
Research Publisher
IEEE
Research Vol
NULL
Research Rank
3
Research_Pages
1-6
Research Website
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8659839
Research Abstract

Due to the increasing penetration level of microgrids (MGs), it becomes a critical issue for MGs to help sustaining power system stability. Therefore, this paper is aimed at investigating comparison between transient analysis AC and DC Microgrid connected to the grid in case of using Superconducting Fault current limiter (SFCL) at the connection point of Microgrid and grid. When the three-phase-to-ground fault is applied at connection point of Microgrid and grid, the SFCL minimized the oscillating currents and the active and reactive power of AC and DC microgrid to range 20-30%. The transient analysis of AC microgrid is better than DC microgrid except the values currents and the active and reactive power are very high during the fault. The time required to recover pre-fault values of AC microgrid (0.1 sec) is less than those time of DC microgrid (3 sec).