A Transient Stiffness Measure for Islanding Detection of Multi-DG Systems

    Authors

    M. Al Hosani; Z. H. Qu;H. H. Zeineldin

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    IEEE Trans. Power Deliv.

    Keywords

    Distributed generation (DG); islanding detection; quality factor; stiffness; transient response; DISTRIBUTED-GENERATION; NONDETECTION ZONES; INVERTER SYSTEMS; IMPACT; OPERATION; STABILITY; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

    Abstract

    Islanding detection is important to ensure the reliability and safety of distributed generation (DG). In this paper, a new active islanding detection method (IDM) is proposed, and it depends on individually estimating an overall transient stiffness measure for any multi-DG system to establish a clear separation between prior-and post-islanding stiffness. For the multi-DG system to avoid spectrum overlapping, each of its DGs is required to perturb at distinct frequencies. By using this concept of perturbation separation, the proposed technique can be applied to multi-DG systems without requiring any communication among the DGs. Simulation results show that the proposed technique is scalable and robust against different loading conditions and variations of grid stiffness levels as well as with respect to the number of connected DGs and different types of DG controllers. It is also shown that the proposed technique can successfully distinguish islanding conditions from other disturbances that may occur in power system networks.

    Journal Title

    Ieee Transactions on Power Delivery

    Volume

    30

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2015

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    986

    Last Page

    995

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000351744400053

    ISSN

    0885-8977

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