A compound current limiter and circuit breaker

Heidary, A; Radmanesh, H; Bakhshi, A; Rouzbehi, K; Pouresmaeil, E

A compound current limiter and circuit breaker

Heidary, A Radmanesh, H Bakhshi, A Rouzbehi, K

Pouresmaeil, E

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Citation:: Electronics (Switzerland), 2019, 8 (5)
Issue Date:: 2019-05-01

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dc.contributor.author	Heidary, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Radmanesh, H	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Bakhshi, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rouzbehi, K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3623-4840	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pouresmaeil, E	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-05-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Electronics (Switzerland), 2019, 8 (5)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/134756
dc.description.abstract	© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The protection of sensitive loads against voltage drop is a concern for the power system. A fast fault current limiter and circuit breaker can be a solution for rapid voltage recovery of sensitive loads. This paper proposes a compound type of current limiter and circuit breaker (CLCB) which can limit fault current and fast break to adjust voltage sags at the protected buses. In addition, it can act as a circuit breaker to open the faulty line. The proposed CLCB is based on a series L-C resonance, which contains a resonant transformer and a series capacitor bank. Moreover, the CLCB includes two anti-parallel power electronic switches (a diode and an IGBT) connected in series with bus couplers. In order to perform an analysis of CLCB performance, the proposed structure was simulated using MATLAB. In addition, an experimental prototype was built, tested, and the experimental results were reported. Comparisons show that experimental results were in fair agreement with the simulation results and confirm CLCB’s ability to act as a fault current limiter and a circuit breaker.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Electronics (Switzerland)	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.3390/electronics8050551	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	A compound current limiter and circuit breaker	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	5	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	8	en_US
utslib.for	0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Electrical and Data Engineering
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	8	en_US

Abstract:

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The protection of sensitive loads against voltage drop is a concern for the power system. A fast fault current limiter and circuit breaker can be a solution for rapid voltage recovery of sensitive loads. This paper proposes a compound type of current limiter and circuit breaker (CLCB) which can limit fault current and fast break to adjust voltage sags at the protected buses. In addition, it can act as a circuit breaker to open the faulty line. The proposed CLCB is based on a series L-C resonance, which contains a resonant transformer and a series capacitor bank. Moreover, the CLCB includes two anti-parallel power electronic switches (a diode and an IGBT) connected in series with bus couplers. In order to perform an analysis of CLCB performance, the proposed structure was simulated using MATLAB. In addition, an experimental prototype was built, tested, and the experimental results were reported. Comparisons show that experimental results were in fair agreement with the simulation results and confirm CLCB’s ability to act as a fault current limiter and a circuit breaker.

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