Title

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

Authors

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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