A survey on fault current limiters: Development and technical aspects

A Safaei, M Zolfaghari, M Gilvanejad… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents an overview on fault current limiters (FCLs) technologies in power
systems. First, the FCLs have been classified into four groups: superconducting FCLs …

Superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL): Experiment and the simulation from finite-element method (FEM) to power/energy system software

B Shen, Y Chen, C Li, S Wang, X Chen - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) has been regarded as one of most popular
superconducting applications. This article reviews the modern energy system with two major …

Power dissipation in HTS coated conductor coils under the simultaneous action of AC and DC currents and fields

B Shen, C Li, J Geng, X Zhang, J Gawith… - Superconductor …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a comprehensive alternating current (AC) loss study of a circular high
temperature superconductor (HTS) coated conductor coil. The AC losses from a circular …

Numerical modeling of HTS applications

F Grilli - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-temperature superconductor applications have reached a mature status, with several
prototypes and devices in precommercial stage installed around the world. Following this …

How to choose the superconducting material law for the modelling of 2G-HTS coils

BC Robert, MU Fareed, HS Ruiz - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
In an attempt to unveil the impact of the material law selection on the numerical modelling
and analysis of the electromagnetic properties of superconducting coils, in this paper we …

A novel structure for bridge-type fault current limiter: Capacitor-based nonsuperconducting FCL

H Nourmohamadi, M Nazari-Heris… - … on Power Electronics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Taking into account extension of power systems, their interconnections, and increment of
load demand, power capacity of networks is increased and the impedance of sources is …

Power quality improvement of radial feeders using an efficient method

T Ghanbari, E Farjah, F Naseri - Electric Power Systems Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a voltage sag compensation of Point of Common Coupling (PCC) is provided
using a suitable hybrid scheme composed of a Fault Current Limiter (FCL) and a Dynamic …

Impact of resistive superconducting fault current limiter and distributed generation on fault location in distribution networks

D Guillen, C Salas, F Trillaud, LM Castro… - Electric Power Systems …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Resistive Superconducting Fault-Current limiters (r-SFCL) appear as a new
attractive technology to address faults in power grids. Based on a new generation of …

General approach for the determination of the magneto-angular dependence of the critical current of YBCO coated conductors

X Zhang, Z Zhong, HS Ruiz, J Geng… - Superconductor …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The physical understanding and numerical modelling of superconducting devices which
exploit the high performance of second generation high temperature superconducting tapes …

Optimal location and minimum number of superconducting fault current limiters for the protection of power grids

X Zhang, HS Ruiz, J Geng, TA Coombs - International Journal of Electrical …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel method to determine the optimal strategy for the allocation of
multiple resistive superconducting fault current limiters (SFCLs) aiming to improve the …