Identifying fault location in distribution systems with high Distributed Generation penetration

Author

Calderaro, V. ; Piccolo, A. ; Galdi, V. ; Siano, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a method to built a Petri Net (PN) to identify fault location in distribution systems with high penetration of distributed generation (DG). The design of PN is based on the composition of single PN, modeling protection systems and current detectors. A case study considering a typical Italian distribution grid is shown. The results highlight that the proposed method can remove a lot of complexity in data analysis also in presence of misoperation of protection systems.

Keywords

Petri nets; distributed power generation; fault location; power generation protection; Petri Net; current detectors; distributed generation penetration; distribution systems; fault location; protection systems; Circuit breakers; Circuit faults; Detectors; Distributed control; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Fault location; Power system faults; Power system modeling; Power system protection; Distributed Power Generation; Distribution systems; Petri Net; Power System Protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 2009. AFRICON '09.

Conference_Location

Nairobi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3918-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3919-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRCON.2009.5308089

Filename

5308089