Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit

A portable injection unit for Active Impedance Estimation (AIE) is built and tested in a DC zonal marine power distribution system to provide useful information for system protection and restoration. The portable unit generates current “spikes” and injects them into the system once short circuit fau...

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Main Authors: Jia, Ke, Bi, Tianshu, Liu, Bohan, Christopher, Edward, Thomas, David W.P., Sumner, M.
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Published: IEEE 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33356/
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author Jia, Ke
Bi, Tianshu
Liu, Bohan
Christopher, Edward
Thomas, David W.P.
Sumner, M.
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Bi, Tianshu
Liu, Bohan
Christopher, Edward
Thomas, David W.P.
Sumner, M.
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description A portable injection unit for Active Impedance Estimation (AIE) is built and tested in a DC zonal marine power distribution system to provide useful information for system protection and restoration. The portable unit generates current “spikes” and injects them into the system once short circuit faults are detected (by measuring the system voltage drop). The faulted system impedance can be estimated by AIE and comparing the estimated impedance with the pre-calibrated value, the fault location can be determined. The proposed method does not rely on system fault transient information or communication from the remote-end measurement and offers fast and accurate fault location in DC marine distribution systems. The proposed method has been tested and validated on a 750V, 2 MW twin bus DC Commercial Test Facility with the system both de-energised and energised.
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spelling nottingham-333562020-05-04T20:09:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33356/ Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit Jia, Ke Bi, Tianshu Liu, Bohan Christopher, Edward Thomas, David W.P. Sumner, M. A portable injection unit for Active Impedance Estimation (AIE) is built and tested in a DC zonal marine power distribution system to provide useful information for system protection and restoration. The portable unit generates current “spikes” and injects them into the system once short circuit faults are detected (by measuring the system voltage drop). The faulted system impedance can be estimated by AIE and comparing the estimated impedance with the pre-calibrated value, the fault location can be determined. The proposed method does not rely on system fault transient information or communication from the remote-end measurement and offers fast and accurate fault location in DC marine distribution systems. The proposed method has been tested and validated on a 750V, 2 MW twin bus DC Commercial Test Facility with the system both de-energised and energised. IEEE 2015-04 Article PeerReviewed Jia, Ke, Bi, Tianshu, Liu, Bohan, Christopher, Edward, Thomas, David W.P. and Sumner, M. (2015) Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 30 (2). pp. 818-826. ISSN 0885-8977 fault location marine distribution system injections active impedance estimation http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6942237 doi:10.1109/TPWRD.2014.2364259 doi:10.1109/TPWRD.2014.2364259
spellingShingle fault location
marine distribution system
injections
active impedance estimation
Jia, Ke
Bi, Tianshu
Liu, Bohan
Christopher, Edward
Thomas, David W.P.
Sumner, M.
Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit
title Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit
title_full Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit
title_fullStr Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit
title_full_unstemmed Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit
title_short Marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit
title_sort marine power distribution system fault location using a portable injection unit
topic fault location
marine distribution system
injections
active impedance estimation
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