ANALYSIS OF POWER QUALITY ISSUES IN POWER

SYSTEM UNDER FAULTY CONDITION

USING SUPERCONDUCTING FAULT CURRENT LIMITER
(SFCL)
BY

Nagarathna M C
2SD13EPS07
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF

Prof. H. Vijay Murthy
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY
LITERATURE REVIEW
PROBLEM FORMULATION
ABOUT SFCL
FUTURE WORK
EXPECTED OUTCOME

INTRODUCTION

The electrical power of good quality is essential for proper operation of all electronic
equipment, power electronics based loads and microprocessor based controlled loads.
The power quality disturbances decrease the efficiency of system equipment such as
inductive loads, power electronic devices, generators. Therefore the issue of power
quality is very important to both the consumers and the utility of electric power.
Large-scale power systems are required to meet the increasing demand for electricity.
For such systems, the fault current that occurs for short-circuit faults is higher and
existing breakers may not be suitable for current interruption.
To address these issues, Conventional solutions to fault current over-duty such as
major substation upgrades, splitting existing substation busses or multiple circuit
breaker upgrades could be very expensive and require undesirable extended
outages and result in lower power system reliability.
The application of superconducting fault current limiters (SFCL) in high voltage power
systems is very attractive from the technical and economical point of view.
At present there exist no conventional devices to limit peak short-circuit currents in
high voltage power systems.
Superconducting fault current limiters offer attractive solutions for system optimization
and also enable a more efcient asset management.
Therefore, worldwide attempts are made to develop SFCLs for high voltage power
systems.
In September 2005, the German BMBF funded project CULT 110 started to develop the
rst prototype of a superconducting fault current limiter for 110 kV and 1.8 kA.


OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY

OBJECTIVES:
To reduce the Fault Current by Super Conducting Fault Current Limiter.
To improve the Power quality of Power System under faulty conditions.

METHODOLOGY:
The power Quality improvement at different faulty conditions of the power system
is to be carried out with the help of SFCL in an integrated power system.
The modeling is carried out by using the MATLAB/SIMULINK Software which helps
in proper modeling and accurate analysis of the power system network.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Jin-Seok Kim, Sung-Hun Lim, and Jae-Chul Kim, Study on Protective Coordination for
Application of Superconducting Fault Current Limiter, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, VOL. 21, NO. 3, JUNE 2011.

Devendra Mittal, Om Prakash Mahela, Rohit Jain, Detection and analysis of power
quality disturbances under faulty conditions in electrical power system, International
Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology (IJEET), ISSN 0976 6545(Print), ISSN
0976 6553(Online) Volume 4, Issue 2, March April (2013), IAEME

Linmang Wang, Pengzan Jiang, and Dada Wang, Summary of Superconducting Fault
Current Limiter Technology, S. Sambath and E. Zhu (Eds.): Frontiers in Computer
Education, AISC 133, pp. 819825. springerlink.com Springer-Verlag Berlin
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Realization study of superconducting fault current limiter,Anji, H. Sato, Y. Saruhashi, D.
Yanabu, S.Akasu, T. Takao, N. Electric Power Equipment - Switching Technology (ICEPE-
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Textbooks:
Protection And Switchgear by- U.A.Bakshi, M.V.Bakshi

A Guide to MATLAB for Beginners and Experienced Users by Brian R. Hunt, Ronald L.
Lipsman, Jonathan M. Rosenberg, with Kevin R. Coombes, John E. Osborn, and Garrett J.
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PROBLEM FORMULATION

Increasing demand for electricity and the restructuring of the power transmission
system resulting from deregulation and the increased level of distributed and renewable
energy generation can lead to fault current levels above the capability of existing
switchgear.
A viable solution is to install a current-limiting device that is self-triggering, rapidly
activated within a few milliseconds, and failsafe. Fault current limiters (FCLs) are widely
acknowledged as the preferable solution from the technological and economical points
of view.
Superconducting fault-current limiters normally operate with low impedance and are
"invisible" components in the electrical system.
In the event of a fault, the limiter inserts impedance into the circuit and limits the fault
current. With current limiters, the utility can provide a low-impedance, stiff system with
a low fault-current level.
ABOUT SFCL
WORKING PRINCIPLE OF SFCL
SFCL consists of the transformer with ariable coupling
magnetic circuit and the non-inductance
superconducting coil.
There are two connection mode (left-series connection,
right- parallel connection). The transformer secondary
winding of the SFCL is much more than the primary
windings so that the current of superconducting coil is
limited.
When a fault occurs, the current of superconducting coil
reached a critical value. Then the coil quenched, the
resistance increases. For the series type, the majority of
current is into the primary winding primary winding
and is limited by reactance.
For the parallel type, the increase of the
superconducting resistance converted to the primary
side, thus short-circuit current is limited.

Structure of SFCL
FEATURES OF SFCL

Ultra-fast response fault currents are limited within the first half-cycle
Intrinsic safety fault currents are limited automatically without an external trigger
No interruption of power supply fault currents of any strength are limited to a pre-
defined level
Self-recovering property system automatically returns to superconducting state after
a fault incident
Modular design fault current limiting capacity can be adjusted to the grid
environment
FUTURE WORK
Gathering of real time data.
Analyzing present fault current limiting methods.
Analyzing the existing methods for SFCL for power quality improvement.
Attempt to develop a model of SFCL that can be connected to a Power system.
For different fault conditions analysis is carried out.
The modeling is carried out by using the MATLAB/SIMULINK Software which helps
in proper modeling and accurate analysis of the power system network.


EXPECTED OUTCOME

Limit the fault current.
Improved Current and Voltage profile.
Improved Power quality under different faulty conditions.
Power system is safe and reliable.