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Mohamed F. Kotb, Magdi El-Saadawi and Eman H. El-Desouky
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2223/2018.03.005
The FREEDM (future renewable electric energy delivery and management) system is a smart distribution system that facilitates seamless integration of high-penetration DRER (distributed renewable energy resources) and DESD (distributed energy storage devices) with the existing distribution system. Protection schemes have been proposed to detect the overcurrent faults throughout the FREEDM system, according to its requirements. In this paper the time inverse directional over current protection coordination scheme is developed as a backup protection when the primary protection communication failed. The proposed scheme is applied to FREEDM network using conventional mathematical model. To speed up the fault clearing time without coordination loss, the settings of the proposed relays in the two directions are minimized using genetic algorithm. The developed methods are validated using ETAP software. The results ensure that the faults throughout the FREEDM system sections are detected and the relays tripping time are minimized.
FREEDM, protection coordination, genetic algorithm, ETAP software.