Resistive Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (RSFCL) Effect on The Wind Farm Performance

The study sought to evaluate the superconducting fault current limiter impact on network performance provided with a wind farm as distributed generation. Using wind energy to produce electricity has witnessed a remarkable and tremendous growth in recent years. Considering the development in wind turbine inclusion in electrical systems, short circuit current would face an increase trend. Short-circuit current would instigate the thermal and mechanical stress proportional to the short circuit amplitude square causing damages to the equipment. Using fault current limiters (FCLs) sits among the approaches as a simple method to reduce and prevent damages to the equipment making the distribution inevitable. Considering such growth, since the areas with wind potentiality are not necessarily in the vicinity of consumption centers, the evaluating, modeling, and analyzing the wind farms in terms of system stability and power quality and reliability are important aspects which merit attention. The study focuses on evaluating superconducting fault current limiter impact on network performance provided with a wind turbine using PSCAD / EMTDC software for the simulation.

کلیدواژه ها:

Distributed Generation sources ، Dynamic Stability Improvement ، Short Circuit Current ، Superconducting Fault Current Limiter ، Wind Turbine