
Power System Protection in Future Smart Grids
Achieving Reliable Operation with Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles, and Distributed Generation
- 1st Edition - August 22, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Taha Selim Ustun
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 7 8 0 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 7 2 6 5 - 9
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Request a sales quotePower System Protection in Future Smart Grids: Achieving Reliable Operation with Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles and Distributed Generation demonstrates how to protect smart, highly renewable, and highly distributed power systems with state-of-the-art methods rooted in adaptive protection and dynamic response, and based on continuous communication. Focusing on the implementation of novel protection schemes, each chapter presents solutions accompanied by figurative elements and demonstrator codes in MATLAB, C, Python and Java. Chapters address active distribution networks, hybrid microgrids, EVs and inverters on fault levels, adaptive protection systems, dynamic protection strategies, and Hardware in the Loop (HiL) approaches.
- Demonstrates how to mitigate the numerous unanticipated protection consequences of smarter grids and smarter grid equipment
- Focuses on providing communication-based solutions and power hardware in the loop modeling for integration of novel devices
- Emphasizes the importance of automation, communication, and cybersecurity in future protection systems
- Fully supported with modern demonstrator coding in MATLAB, C, Python, and Java
Early career researchers with interests in the impacts of renewable energy on power system operation or power system protection issues in future smart grids, Graduate students, Power System Engineers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of contributors
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Abstract
- References
- Chapter 2. Wide area protection in modern power systems
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The concept of synchrophasor measurements
- 2.3 Wide-area monitoring system
- 2.4 Design considerations of a wide-area monitoring system
- 2.5 Wide-area protection system
- 2.6 Application of wide-area protection in a distribution network
- 2.7 Key issues and challenges
- References
- Chapter 3. Out-of-step protection in power system
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Methodology of out-of-step protection
- 3.3 State-of-the-art methodologies for out-of-step protection
- 3.4 Out-of-step protection applications
- 3.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. Machine learning techniques for power system application: fault analysis
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Power system fault transient data extraction
- 4.3 Convolutional neural network architecture for power system fault classification
- 4.4 Case study
- 4.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5. Optimal coordination of time delay overcurrent relays for power systems with integrated renewable energy sources
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Main challenges of integrating renewable energy sources in power system
- 5.3 Short circuit calculation
- 5.4 Impact of renewable energy sources on short circuitand relay setting
- 5.5 Proposed optimal time setting formulation
- 5.6 Results and discussion
- 5.7 Conclusions
- Author contributions
- Funding
- Institutional review board statement
- Informed consent statement
- Data availability statement
- Acknowledgments
- Conflicts of interest
- Abbreviations
- References
- Chapter 6. Application of the phasor measurement unit for protecting unintentional islanding of the distribution system
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Basic concepts of the phasor measurement
- 6.3 Distributed generation system
- 6.4 Phasor measurement units technique for microgrid islanding detection
- 6.5 Phasor measurement units simulation for the islanding scenarios
- 6.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7. Adaptive protection system for microgrids with high penetration of renewables: IEC 61850 modeling and cybersecurity considerations
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Protection challenges in dynamic power systems
- 7.3 Adaptive protection with communication
- 7.4 IEC 61850 modeling of adaptive protection system
- 7.5 Cybersecurity vulnerabilities of power system communication based on IEC 61850 standard
- 7.6 Machine learning-based intrusion detection for adaptive protection systems modeled with IEC 61850
- 7.7 Performance tests and results
- 7.8 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8. Testing and evaluation methods for protection systems
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Generalized protection device components
- 8.3 Necessary resources for protection evaluation
- 8.4 Understanding protection equipment for evaluation
- 8.5 Evaluation method 1: Pure software simulation
- 8.6 Evaluation method 2: Replaying field signatures
- 8.7 Evaluation method 3: Hardware-in-the-loop setup
- 8.8 Controller hardware-in-the-loop evaluation
- 8.9 Power hardware-in-the-loop evaluation
- 8.10 Use of evaluation techniques for successful commercialization and field deployment
- 8.11 Summary
- References
- Chapter 9. DC microgrids protection: forthcoming approaches
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 DC microgrid fault analysis
- 9.3 Forthcoming protection schemes
- 9.4 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 22, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 320
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323917803
- eBook ISBN: 9780323972659
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Taha Selim Ustun
Taha Selim Ustun received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Currently, he is a researcher at Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA) and leads the Smart Grid Cybersecurity Lab. Prior to that he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His research focuses on novel protection challenges that are encountered in new generation power systems, particularly in the development of new protection coordination techniques, communication approaches and testing procedures. With the aim of achieving duplicable and scalable solutions, his research also focuses on standards such as IEC 61850. Recently, his research has concentrated on achieving safe and reliable operation under cyberattacks given the unprecedented cybersecurity vulnerabilities inherent in highly connected smart grids.
Affiliations and expertise
Head of Smart Grid Cybersecurity Laboratory, Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Koriyama, JapanRead Power System Protection in Future Smart Grids on ScienceDirect