The Study of Locating Ground Faults in DC Microgrid Using Wavelet Transform

Ground Fault Location of Cable Using Wavelet in DC Microgrid

DC Microgrid Protection in the Presence of the Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Systems

In recent years, most of the loads and distributed generations are connected to the AC grid through the power electronic converters. Using the DC grid beside the AC grid can reduce the conversion stages and power losses. Protection of the DC grids is a challenging issue because of the new structures of DC grids and fast transients of the DC faults. This paper studies the protection of the low v...

A New Fast and Accurate Fault Location and Classification Method on MTDC Microgrids Using Current Injection Technique, Traveling-Waves, Online Wavelet, and Mathematical Morphology

In this paper, a new fast and accurate method for fault detection, location, and classification on multi-terminal DC (MTDC) distribution networks connected to renewable energy and energy storages presented. MTDC networks develop due to some issues such as DC resources and loads expanding, and try to the power quality increasing. It is important to recognize the fault type and location in order ...

Islanding detection in micro-grids using sum of voltage and current wavelet coefficients energy

This paper presents wavelet based islanding detection in distributed generation (DG) interfaced to the microgrid. Also a new fast method is developed for islanding detection based on measuring the utility currents and voltages signals processed by discrete wavelet transform. These currents and voltages signals are measured before the main circuit breaker of microgrid network and their features ...

Fault detection, classification and location methodology for solar microgrids using current injection, online phaselet transform, mathematical morphology filter and signal energy analysis

In this paper, a new method for detection and fault location and classification in MTDC solar microgrid is presented. Some issues such as expanding renewable energy sources and DC loads and efforts to increase power quality and reduce the environmental impact of electricity generation have led to the expansion of solar networks. Identifying the types and locations of faults is important to ensu...