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Design, Verification, and Protection Setting of Superconducting Fault Current Limiter for a 10 kV Power Network

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The level of fault current increases as urban power grid expands in recent years. The traditional relay protection has difficulties in preventing the increased fault current in power grid. Magneto-biased superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) is a novel technology with two-stage fault current limiting capability of reducing the level of fault current in the first half of the cycle and further in the second cycle. It consists of a double-split reactor, a non-inductive YBCO component, and a fast circuit breaker. Achieving its coordination with relay protection can reduce the reconstruction cost of power system and contribute to the promotion of SFCL. This paper analyzes the SFCL’s operating mechanism at first. Then, a typical 10 kV IEEE 9-bus power system model including the magneto-biased SFCL is built to theoretically investigate the quench and current limiting characteristics and validate the feasibility of SFCL. Finally, a distance protection setting of a simplified 10 kV urban power grid is calculated and the influence of the introduction of the magneto-biased SFCL on the distance protection is quantified. The simulation results of single-phase short-circuit fault show that the zone I and zone II of distance protection can be properly activated and there is little impact on the distance protection of zone III.

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This work was supported by China State Grid Corporation Science and Technology Project under Grant DG71-22–006 (Corresponding author: Jiahui Zhu).

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Zhu, J., Yang, Q., Chen, P. et al. Design, Verification, and Protection Setting of Superconducting Fault Current Limiter for a 10 kV Power Network. J Supercond Nov Magn 36, 455–465 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-023-06498-4

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