Title
Active Fault Protection for an AC Zonal Marine Power System Architecture.
Abstract
This paper proposes a new protection scheme for marine power systems (MPS). The scheme exploits the increased use of power electronic devices to provide a useful complement to traditional protection strategies which can also provide the necessary back up protection during extreme protection failure, without the need for communication channels. The scheme is described for an AC zonal Advanced Power System architecture employing power electronic Bus Interface Units, An Active Fault Protection scheme is presented based on active impedance estimation from these Bus Interface Units. The power system impedance is measured by injecting a very short current transient onto the network via a coupling inductance and analyzing the transient response to this using the measured voltages and currents. Wavelet analysis is used in the data processing to estimate the system impedance over a broad frequency range; the identified impedance can be used for fault discrimination. The speed, accuracy and range of validity of such an approach are fully explored.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/08IAS.2008.282
IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting
Keywords
Field
DocType
marine electrical distribution system,impedance,harmonic frequency,protectio,IFEP
Transient response,Inductance,Electric power system,Electronic engineering,Electrical impedance,Power electronics,Marine energy,Systems architecture,Power-system protection,Engineering,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0197-2618
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Wang100.34
P. Kadanak200.34
M. Sumner326126.78
D. Thomas412.13
R. D. Geertsma500.34