A protection strategy for fault detection and location for multi-terminal MVDC distribution systems with renewable energy systems

3rd International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 496-501

  Monadi, Mehdi ^a   Koch Ciobotaru, Cosmin ^a   Luna, Alvaro ^a   Candela, Jose Ignacio ^a   Rodriguez, Pedro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Abengoa Research   (Spain)

Author keywords

dc fault currents; distribution systems; Multi terminal dc systems; protection

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; GRADING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

DC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; FAULT DETECTION AND LOCATION; INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES; MULTI-TERMINAL DC; PROTECTION; PROTECTION STRATEGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 84946691651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRERA.2014.7016434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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