DC transmission grid with low-speed protection using mechanical DC circuit breakers

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1383-1391

  Hajian, Masood ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Jovcic, Dragan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circuit breaker (CB); converters; fault detection; fault tolerance; HVDC transmission; Protection

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; FAULT TOLERANCE; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); POWER CONVERTERS; TORQUE CONVERTERS; TRANSMISSIONS;

DC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; DIFFERENTIAL METHODS; FAULT CLEARING TIME; HVDC TRANSMISSION; PROTECTION; PROTECTION SYSTEMS; SECURITY AND RELIABILITIES; VOLTAGE-SOURCE CONVERTER;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 84930193547     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2014.2371618     Document Type: Article

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