Smart Protection System for Microgrids with Grid-Connected and Islanded Capabilities Based on an Adaptive Algorithm

Felipe Carvalho Sampaio, Fernando Lessa Tofoli, Lucas Silveira Melo, Giovanni Cordeiro Barroso, Raimundo Furtado Sampaio and Ruth Pastôra Saraiva Leão ()
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Felipe Carvalho Sampaio: Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Brazil
Fernando Lessa Tofoli: Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of São João del-Rei, São João del Rei 36307-352, Brazil
Lucas Silveira Melo: Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Brazil
Giovanni Cordeiro Barroso: Department of Physics, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Brazil
Raimundo Furtado Sampaio: Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Brazil
Ruth Pastôra Saraiva Leão: Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza 60455-760, Brazil

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: This work proposes a smart protection system for microgrids, which relies on an adaptive metaheuristic for the automatic calculation of optimal settings for directional overcurrent relays (DOCRs). The adaptive fuzzy directional bat algorithm (AFDBA) associated with a fuzzy inference system (FIS) is used for this purpose. A prominent advantage of this solution is that there is no need for an initial tuning of the parameters associated with the algorithm, unlike many traditional approaches reported in the literature. Such a metaheuristic is used in the conception of an adaptive protection system (APS) in the context of a microgrid while taking into account the connection status of distributed generation (DG) units under distinct scenarios. A performance comparison with a protection system with fixed optimal settings (PSFOS) is also presented. The results demonstrate that the proposed APS outperforms the PSFOS while providing faster response, higher reliability and less susceptibility to miscoordination. In other words, it presents a shorter trip time when compared with the PSFOS, with a reduction of 6.83% and 26.58% when considering the DG penetration and the islanded microgrid, respectively.

Keywords: adaptive protection systems; directional overcurrent relays; distributed generation; metaheuristics; microgrids (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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