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access icon free Protection of inverter-based microgrids from ground faults by an innovative directional element

  • Author(s): Behnam Mahamedi 1 ; Jian Guo Zhu 2 ; Mohsen Eskandari 1 ; John Edward Fletcher 3 ; Li Li 1
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  • Source: Volume 12, Issue 22, 11 December 2018, p. 5918 – 5927
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-gtd.2018.5469 , Print ISSN 1751-8687, Online ISSN 1751-8695
© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 07/05/2018, Accepted 28/08/2018, Revised 16/08/2018, Published 29/08/2018

The complicated response of inverter-interfaced distributed generators (IIDG) to faults has been reported, which severely affects all parts of relaying, i.e. fault sensing and polarisation, and faulted phase selection. Given this, the root causes of difficulties in dealing with the protection of inverter-based microgrids are explained. Then, the study describes a directional element using unique features of zero-sequence components that retains satisfactory performance even in IIDG-based microgrids. The zero-sequence component is the only sequence component that can be calculated in the time domain without time delay and thus can cause less delay in the outcome of protective schemes compared with the other two sequences. With this, instantaneous zero-sequence power is defined and one term derived from it, zero-sequence reactive power, is utilised to polarise ground faults. It is proven that the zero-sequence reactive power is negative for forwarding ground faults and positive for reverse ground faults. An interesting feature is that the zero-sequence reactive power is calculated by averaging a new quantity in the time domain over half a power cycle. Hence, the time delay is half that of the conventional phasor-based methods. A sample microgrid is simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK to evaluate the directional element and the results demonstrate the improvements.

Inspec keywords: power distribution faults; distributed power generation; power generation faults; reactive power; invertors; earthing

Other keywords: protective schemes; inverter-based microgrids; zero-sequence reactive power; time domain; faulted phase selection; innovative directional element; IIDG-based microgrids; reverse ground faults; conventional phasor-based methods; fault sensing; inverter-interfaced distributed generators; polarisation; time delay; zero-sequence power; zero-sequence component

Subjects: Distributed power generation; Power system protection; Distribution networks; Control of electric power systems

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