Transient analysis on different types of super conducting fault current limiters

Author

Alaraifi, Surour ; El Moursi, Mohamed Shawky ; Zeineldin, Hatem

Author_Institution

Electr. Power Eng. Dept., MASDAR Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

fYear

2013

fDate

16-20 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of installing series fault current limiters (FCL) on angular stability, voltage stability, as well as fault current mitigation. A resistive type (R-Type) HTS-FCL, and a magnetic HTS-FCL (MFCL) are modeled in time domain using PSCAD/EMTDC and tested in a single machine to infinite bus test system. To evaluate the performance of these FCLs they are compared with conventional series current limiting reactor SCLR. Machine´s internal voltage, rotor speed, and current are monitored for all cases. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of HTS-FCL among other FCLs in boosting stator voltage and improving angular stability.

Keywords

power system transient stability; rotors; stators; superconducting fault current limiters; PSCAD/EMTDC; angular stability; fault current mitigation; infinite bus test system; rotor speed; series current limiting reactor; stator voltage; superconducting fault current limiters; transient analysis; voltage stability; Circuit faults; Fault current limiters; High-temperature superconductors; Oscillators; Power system stability; Rotors; Stability analysis; High Temperature Superconducting fault current limiters; Magnetic fault current limiter; Rotor angle stability; Voltage stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PowerTech (POWERTECH), 2013 IEEE Grenoble

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PTC.2013.6652248

Filename

6652248