Impact of Position of Fault Current Limiter on the Interrupting of Circuit Breaker

Author

Li, Weiwei ; Dan, Shuheng ; Li, Yan

Author_Institution

Electr. Power & Autom. Eng. Dept., Shanghai Univ. of Electr. Power, Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

28-31 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The fault current limiter (FCL) can be installed upstream and downstream from the circuit breaker. With regards to short-line fault in power transmission lines installed with FCL under different current limiting riot, the impact of the installation position of FCL on transient recovery voltage and the rate of rise of recovery voltage (RRRV) were studied. The presence of the FCL reduces recovery voltage, regardless of the installation position of FCL were upstream or downstream from the circuit breaker. Whereas the different installation position of FCL have no impact on the RRRV of circuit breaker. Comparing the voltage at the source-side terminal of FCL under different position of FCL, the voltage was relatively low when FCL is installed downstream from the circuit breaker. In other words, the best installation position of FCL is downstream form the circuit breaker.

Keywords

circuit breakers; fault current limiters; circuit breaker; fault current limiter; power transmission lines; rise of recovery voltage; short-line fault; Circuit breakers; Circuit faults; Fault current limiters; Fault currents; Power system faults; Power system reliability; Power system security; Power system stability; Power system transients; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2010 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4812-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4813-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2010.5448983

Filename

5448983