Abstract
Amongst applications of high temperature superconductors, fault current limiters are foreseen as one of the most promising in power systems. Several topologies have been developed in the last years, taking advantage of different superconductors’ properties. Increasing distributed generation (DG) penetration, based on renewable energy, adds new short-circuit sources to electrical grids, which brings several energy quality and protection issues. Superconducting fault current limiters can obviate these problems, representing thus an enabling technology for DG penetration. In this paper current limiter topologies are presented, its operations principles, strengths and weaknesses, in the context of these DG grids. In the end, future trends are discussed.
Chapter PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
References
CIGRE Sudy Committee 37-23: Impact of increasing contributions of dispersed generation on the power systems. Technical report, CIGRE (1999)
CIRED Working Group 04: Dispersed generation. Preliminary report, CIRED Conference, Nice, France (1999)
Conti, S.: Analysis of distribution network protection issues in presence of dispersed generation. Electrical Power Systems Research 79, 49–56 (2009)
Jenkins, N., Allan, R., Crossley, P., Kirschen, D., Strbac, G.: Embedded Generation. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, London (2000)
Boutsika, T., Papathanassiou, S.: Short-circuit calculations in networks with distributed generation. Electrical Power Systems Research 78, 1181–1191 (2008)
Tran-Quoc, T., Andrieu, C., Hadjsaid, N.: Technical impacts of small distributed generation units on LV networks. IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting 4, 2459–2464 (2003)
Kunde, K., Kleimaier, M., Klingbeil, L.: Integration of fast acting electronic fault current limiters (EFCL) in medium voltage systems. In: CIRED 17th International Conference on Electricity Distribution, Barcelona, Spain (2003)
Pina, J., Suárez, P., Ventim Neves, M., Álvarez, A., Leão Rodrigues, A.: Reverse Engineering of Inductive Fault Current Limiters. Accepted for publication. In: 9th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, EUCAS 2009, Dresden, Germany (2009)
Sato, T., Yamaguchi, M., Fukui, S., Watanabe, Y., Matsumura, T., Shimizu, H.: A Study on DC S/N Transition Type Superconducting Fault Current Limiting Interrupter. IEEE Trans. App. Superconductivity 13, 2088–2091 (2003)
Noe, M., Juengst, K.-P., Werfel, F., Cowey, L., Wolf, A., Elschner, S.: Investigation of high-Tc bulk material for its use in resistive superconducting fault current limiters. IEEE Trans. App. Superconductivity 11, 1960–1963 (2001)
Paul, W., Chen, M., Lakner, M., Rhyner, J., Braun, D., Lanz, W.: Fault current limiter based on high temperature superconductors - different concepts, test results, simulations, applications. Physica C 354, 27–33 (2001)
Shimizu, H., Yokomizu, Y., Matsumura, T., Murayama, N.: Proposal of Flux Flow Resistance Type Fault Current Limiter using Bi2223 High Tc Superconducting Bulk. IEEE Trans. App. Superconductivity 12, 876–879 (2002)
Bock, J., Breuer, F., Walter, H., Elschner, S., Kleimaier, M., Kreutz, R., Noe, M.: CURL 10: Development and Field-Test of a 10 kV/10 MVA Resistive Current Limiter Based on Bulk MCP-BSCCO 2212. IEEE Trans. App. Superconductivity 15, 1955–1960 (2005)
Sim, J., Park, K., Kim, H., Kang, J., Lee, B., Kim, H., Oh, I., Hyun, O.: 14 kV single-phase superconducting fault current limiter based on YBCO films. Cryogenics 47, 183–188 (2007)
Yazawa, T., Koyanagi, K., Takahashi, M., Ono, M., Toba, K., Takigami, H., Urata, M., Iijima, Y., Saito, T., Ameniya, N., Shiohara, Y.: Superconducting fault current limiter using high-resistive YBCO tapes. Physica C 468, 2046–2049 (2008)
Bashkirov, Y., Fleishman, L., Patsayeva, T., Sobolev, A., Vdovin, A.: Current-limiting reactor based on high-Tc superconductors. IEEE Trans. Magnet. 27, 1089–1092 (1991)
Paul, W., Lakner, M., Rhyner, J., Unternährer, P., Baumann, T., Chen, M., Windnhorn, L., Guérig, A.: Test of 1.2 MVA high-Tc superconducting fault current limiter. Superconductor Science and Technology 10, 914–918 (1997)
Elschner, S., Breuer, F., Walter, H., Stemmle, M., Bock, J.: HTS Components for High Voltage Resistive Current Limiters Based on a Magnetic Field Triggered Concept. IEEE Trans. App. Superconductivity 17, 1772–1775 (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
About this paper
Cite this paper
Pina, J.M., Neves, M.V., Álvarez, A., Rodrigues, A.L. (2010). High Temperature Superconducting Fault Current Limiters as Enabling Technology in Electrical Grids with Increased Distributed Generation Penetration. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Pereira, P., Ribeiro, L. (eds) Emerging Trends in Technological Innovation. DoCEIS 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 314. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11628-5_47
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11628-5_47
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-11627-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-11628-5
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)