Protection Strategies for Medium-Voltage Direct-Current Microgrid at a Remote Area Mine Site

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2846-2853

  Yuan, Chen ^a   Haj Ahmed, Mohammed A ^a   Illindala, Mahesh S ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit faults; delays; distributed power generation; energy storage; microgrids; mining; overcurrent protection; voltage control; wind turbines

Indexed keywords

DELAY CIRCUITS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT PROTECTION; ELECTRIC LOAD FLOW; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY STORAGE; FUEL CELLS; FUEL STORAGE; MATLAB; MINING; MINING EQUIPMENT; OVERCURRENT PROTECTION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; VOLTAGE CONTROL; WIND TURBINES;

BI-DIRECTIONAL POWER FLOWS; CIRCUIT FAULTS; DELAYS; DIFFERENTIAL PROTECTION; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; MATLAB/SIMULINK MODELING; MICRO GRID; OVERCURRENT PROTECTIVE RELAY;

SURGE PROTECTION;

EID: 84937953687     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2015.2391441     Document Type: Article

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