A DC Fault Current Limiting Method for HB-MMC Without Losing Control of AC Currents

Author(s):  
Xiongfeng Fang ◽  
Zeyu Hu ◽  
Yongfei Xing ◽  
Dongyu Wang ◽  
Jian Xiong ◽  
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Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 4210
Author(s):  
Kang-Cheol Cho ◽  
Min-Ki Park ◽  
Sung-Hun Lim

Recently, a lot of interesting research has been conducted to solve the fault current problem of the DC system. In long-distance transmission, DC transmission is more economical than AC transmission. The connection of power grids with a DC system can also better control the power flow and provide high stability. However, the control of the fault current in a DC system is more difficult to handle than in an AC system because the DC system does not make a zero point, unlike the AC system. In addition, there is a disadvantage, in that an arc occurs when a circuit breaker operates. In this paper, a new type of DC superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) is proposed. This new type of SFCL is composed of two superconducting elements, a current limiting resistor/reactor (CLR), and a transformer. With the proposed SFCL, the DC fault current limiting experiments were performed and the DC fault current limiting characteristics of this SFCL due to the component of the CLR were analyzed.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4157
Author(s):  
Sang-Jae Choi ◽  
Jun-Hyup Lee ◽  
Jin-Wook Lee ◽  
Sung-Hun Lim

In this paper, direct current (DC) fault current limiting and interrupting operation of hybrid DC circuit breaker (DCCB) using double quench, which consists of DCCB, a series resonance circuit, power electronic switch, surge arrestor, two separated current limiting reactor/resistor, and two superconducting elements, were suggested. The suggested hybrid DCCB can perform the interrupting operation after twice or once DC fault current limiting operation according to DC fault current amplitude. To verify the effective operation of the suggested hybrid DCCB, the modeling for the components of DCCB, the surge arrestor, and the SCE was carried out and its DC operational characteristics were analyzed. Through the analysis of the modeling results for the suggested hybrid DCCB, the advantages of hybrid DCCB were discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 256 ◽  
pp. 01028
Author(s):  
Jinyi Deng ◽  
Chen Li ◽  
Junfeng Gao

With the rapid development of DC power grids, the protection of DC power grids is particularly important. Therefore, this paper proposes a kind of DC fault current-limiter with instantaneous by-pass of current-limiting reactance, analyses its working principle and theoretical calculations, and verifies the correctness of its principle through simulation experiments. At the same time, the experimental results show that the current-limiter proposed in this paper can not only instantaneously and greatly limit the fault current when a short-circuit fault occurs in the power grid, but not affect the normal operation of the power grid. A new device is provided for DC gird fault current-limiting protection.


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