An advanced protection scheme for enabling an LVDC last mile distribution network

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2602-2609

  Emhemed, Abdullah A S ^a   Burt, Graeme M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed energy resources; low voltage direct current (LVDC) distribution systems; power system protection; smart grid; solid state circuit breakers

Indexed keywords

DIRECT CURRENT; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION; SMART GRID; SOLID STATE CIRCUIT BREAKER;

EID: 84907571651     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2014.2335111     Document Type: Article

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