Review and evaluation of the state of the art of DC fault detection for HVDC grids

Vasileios Psaras; Abdullah Emhemed; Graeme Burt; Grain Philip Adam

doi:10.1109/UPEC.2018.8541961

Review and evaluation of the state of the art of DC fault detection for HVDC grids

Vasileios Psaras, Abdullah Emhemed, Graeme Burt, Grain Philip Adam

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This paper reviews the state of the art of DC fault discrimination and detection methods of HVDC grids, and summarises the underlying principles and the characteristics of each method. To minimize HVDC grid disturbance and power transfer interruption due to DC faults, it is critically important to have protection schemes that can detect, discriminate and isolate DC faults at high speeds with full selectivity. On this basis, this paper lists the advantages and disadvantages of the most promising fault detection methods, with the aim of articulating the future directions of HVDC protection systems. From the qualitative comparison of relative merits, the initial recommendations on HVDC grid protection are presented. Moreover, a comprehensive quantitative assessments of different fault detection methods discussed above are carried out on a generic 4-terminal meshed HVDC grid, which is modelled in PSCAD environment. The presented simulation results identify that the voltage derivative and wavelet transform are the most promising methods for DC fault detection and discrimination.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC)
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538629109
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/UPEC.2018.8541961
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2018
Event	The 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference - Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow , United Kingdom Duration: 4 Sept 2018 → 7 Sept 2018 Conference number: 53 http://www.upec2018.com/

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Conference	The 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference
Abbreviated title	UPEC2018
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/09/18 → 7/09/18
Internet address	http://www.upec2018.com/

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fault detection
HVDC grids
protection systems
VSC technology

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Psaras, V, Emhemed, A, Burt, G & Adam, GP 2018, Review and evaluation of the state of the art of DC fault detection for HVDC grids. in 2018 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, The 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference, Glasgow , United Kingdom, 4/09/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/UPEC.2018.8541961

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