Providing a fault detection method for the occurrence of faults in DC microgrids, distributed generations, and electrical vehicles

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Isfahan University of Technology

2 Islamic Azad University of Qazvin

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DC microgrids have emerged as a promising solution to provide reliable and efficient power for various applications. However, similar to any power system, DC microgrids are prone to faults that can disrupt their performance. Accordingly, the lack of publication of sufficient standards and guidelines for the protection of DC microgrids makes it necessary to develop protection methods in these networks. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to create a new fault detection method in islanded DC microgrids. In this method, the current signal samples are entered into a chaotic state and using the feature of sensitivity to the initial conditions of this method, it accurately identifies the fault. In this case, the signal undergoes a very large changes during the fault, which is easily visible compared to the normal state. It should be noted that, unlike other methods, in the proposed method in this paper, only one measurement unit is used in the DC bus for sampling signals. Therefore, there is no need to use communication links in the proposed method. The proposed method has been implemented using MATLAB/Simulink software on a sample DC microgrid. The results show that the proposed method is capable to detect pole-to-pole and pole-to-ground faults on the microgrids and also faults on the distributed generations and electrical vehicles. Also, results prove that this method is resistant to the operational uncertainty of distributed generations, electrical vehicles, and the destructive effects of noise on the sampled signals.

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AUT Journal of Electrical Engineering
Volume 56, Issue 2
March 2024
Pages 12-12

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