• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.169-175
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• 2017

A safe and reliable protection system in distribution networks, specifically, those hosting distribution generation units, needs a robust over-current protection scheme. To avoid unintentional DG disconnection during fault conditions, a protection system should operate quickly and selectively. Therefore, to achieve this aim, satisfying coordination constraints are important for any protection scheme in distribution networks; these pose a challenging task in interconnected and large-scale networks. In this paper, a new coordination strategy, based on the same non-standard time-current curve for all relays, in order to find optimal coordination of directional over-current relays, is proposed. The main aim is to reduce violations, especially miscoordination between pair relays. Besides this, the overall time of operation of relays during primary and backup operations should be minimized concurrently. This work is being tackled based on genetic algorithms and motivated by the heuristic algorithm. For the numerical analysis, to show the superiority of this coordination strategy, the IEEE 30-bus test system, with a mesh structure and supplemented with distributed generation, is put under extensive simulations, and the obtained results are discussed in depth.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1043-1051
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• 2018

The coordination of directional overcurrent relay (DOCR) is employed in this work, considering gray wolf optimizer (GWO), a recently designed optimizer that employs the hunting and leadership attitude of gray wolves for searching a global optimum. In power system protection coordination problem, the objective function to be optimized is the sum of operating time of all the main relays. The coordination of directional overcurrent relays is formulated as a linear programming problem. The proposed optimization technique aims to minimize the time dial settings (TDS) of the relays. The calculation of the Time Dial Setting (TDS) setting of the relays is the core of the coordination study. In this article two case studies of IEEE 6-bus system and IEEE 30-bus system are utilized to see the efficiency of this algorithm and the results had been compared with the other algorithms available in the reference and it was observed that the proposed scheme is quite competent for dealing with such problems. From analyzing the obtained results, it has been found that the GWO approach provides the most globally optimum solution at a faster convergence speed. GWO has achieved a lot of relaxation due to its easy implementation, modesty and robustness. MATLAB computer programming has been applied to see the effectiveness of this algorithm.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.612-620
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• 2017

Relay coordination in power system is a complex problem and so far, meta-heuristic algorithms and other methods as an alternative approach may not properly deal with large scale relay coordination due to their huge time consuming computation. In some cases the relay coordination could be unachievable. As the urgency for a proper approach is essential, in this paper an innovative and simple relay coordination method is introduced that is able to be applied on optimization algorithms for relay protection coordination. The objective function equation of operating time of relays are divided into two separate functions with less constraints. As the analytical results show here, this equivalent method has a remarkable speed with high accuracy to coordinate directional relays. Two distribution systems including directional overcurrent relays are studied in DigSILENT software and the collected data are examined in MATLAB. The relay settings of this method are compared with particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm. The analytical results show the correctness of this mathematical and practical approach. This fast coordination method has a proper velocity of convergence with low iteration that can be used in large scale systems in practice and also to provide a feasible solution for protection coordination in smart grids as online or offline protection coordination.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.944-950
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• 2008

When small cogenerators are operated in connected with power system, there are many positive aspects such as the reduction of power plant construction, making a improvement of power security etc. At the same time, there are some negative effects or difficulties such as we should make sure of protective coordination, especially, Actually these are not fault, but it is likely to consider the current as the fault. This is one of major causes of malfunctions for protective relays in power distribution system which is including interconnection point. Thus, in this paper, We showed that the directional protection is necessary to the dispersed generation system which is including connection point. We also executed contingency analysis to find out the magnitude of fault current and direction which are classified by fault points, length of line and kinds of faults using ETAP power system analysis program.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권2B호
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• pp.170-177
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 본 논문에서는 BS(Base Station, 기지국)와 RS(Relay Station, 중계기)가 지향성 안테나를 갖는 multi-tier 기반의 NBTC (Narrow-Beam Trisector Cell)와 WBTC (Wide-Beam Trisector Cell) 구조를 제안하고, 두 시스템에서 동일 채널 간섭 (Co-channel interference)에 의한 용량을 두 개의 채널 모델을 적용하여 분석하였다. 분석을 통해 $2^{nd}$ tier로 구성한 한 클러스터에서 발생하는 총 용량은 LOS(Line of Sight)의 존재 여부에 따라 NBTC 구조 셀과 WBTC 구조 셀의 총 용량이 달라짐을 알 수 있었다. 본 논문의 결과는 향후 차세대 이동통신 및 와이브로 시스템에서 간섭을 고려한 멀티 홉 RS 도입 시에 참고할 만한 가이드라인을 제시할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2012

The current study presents a zero-one integer programming approach to determine the minimum break point set for the coordination of directional relays. First, the network is reduced if there are any parallel lines or three-end nodes. Second, all the directed loops are enumerated to reduce the iteration. Finally, the problem is formulated as a set-covering problem, and the break point set is determined using the zero-one integer programming technique. Arbitrary starting relay locations and the arbitrary consideration of relay sequence to set and coordinate relays result in navigating the loops many times and futile attempts to achieve system-wide relay coordination. These algorithms are compared with the existing methods, and the results are presented. The problem is formulated as a setcovering problem solved by the zero-one integer programming approach using LINGO 12, an optimization modeling software.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.890-910
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• 2014

This paper investigates the spectrum hole utilization of cooperative schemes for the two-way relaying model in order to improve the utilization efficiency of limited spectrum holes in cognitive radio networks with imperfect spectrum sensing. We propose two specific bidirectional secondary data transmission (BSDT) schemes with two-step and three-step two-way relaying models, i.e., two-BSDT and three-BSDT schemes, where the spectrum sensing and the secondary data transmission are jointly designed. In the proposed cooperative schemes, the best two-way relay channel between two secondary users is selected from a group of secondary users serving as cognitive relays and assists the bi-directional communication between the two secondary users without a direct link. The closed-form asymptotic expressions for outage probabilities of the two schemes are derived with a primary user protection constraint over Rayleigh fading channels. Based on the derived outage probabilities, the spectrum hole utilization is calculated to evaluate the percentage of spectrum holes used by the two secondary users for their successful information exchange without channel outage. Numerical results show that the spectrum hole utilization depends on the spectrum sensing overhead and the channel gain from a primary user to secondary users. Additionally, we compare the spectrum hole utilization of the two schemes as the varying of secondary signal to noise ratio, the number of cognitive relays, and symmetric and asymmetric channels.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.80-82
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• 2005

Distributed generation (IX;) plays an important role in the power system nowadays. Over-current relay, widely used in the DG protection, causes a wide outage section and long time delay. This paper proposes a DG protection technique to minimize the outage section. The proposed method uses three directional over-current relays with delay, which are connected to the point of common coupling. The method can minimize the outage section.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 제36회 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.450-452
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• 2005

Distributed generation (DG) plays an important role in the power system nowadays. Over-current relay, widely used in the DG protection, causes a wide outage section and long time delay. This paper proposes a DG protection technique to minimize the outage section. The proposed method uses three directional over-current relays with time delay, which are connected to the point of common coupling. The method can minimize the outage section.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2018

최근, 대용량의 태양광전원이 연계된 배전계통은 기존의 단방향과 달리 양방향의 조류가 발생하고, 태양광전원의 연계위치 및 고장위치에 따라 사고전류의 크기와 방향이 변하여, 보호기기간의 협조시간차가 충분히 확보되지 않는 문제점이 발생할 수 있다. 또한, 태양광전원을 고려하지 않은 기존의 보호기기 정정치를 그대로 적용하고 있어 보호기기간의 협조시간차를 확보하기 어려운 상황이 발생하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 태양광전원이 연계된 선로에서 고려할 수 있는 3가지 Case의 보호기기 정정치 운용모드를 제시하고, 이를 바탕으로 태양광전원의 용량에 따른 최적의 보호협조 시간을 도출할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 한편, 이를 바탕으로 보호협조 전용소프트웨어인 Off-DAS를 이용하여, 태양광전원이 연계된 배전계통을 모델링하고, 보호기기(변전소 계전기, 리클로저(Recloser), 고객계전기, 태양광전원 고객계전기)간의 협조시간차 특성을 분석한다. 실 계통을 대상으로 시뮬레이션을 수행한 결과, 본 논문에서 제시한 보호기기의 정정치 운용 모드와 정정치 산정 방식이 태양광 전원이 연계된 배전계통 보호기기간의 협조시간을 안정적으로 확보할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.