Power quality in microgrids: A critical review of fundamentals, standards, and case studies

S Sepasi, C Talichet, AS Pramanik - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid has become a critical research
topic in recent years. Microgrid technology has emerged as a promising option to integrate …

AC microgrid protection–A review: Current and future prospective

B Patnaik, M Mishra, RC Bansal, RK Jena - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Microgrid is an important component of the evolving smart-grid. It has the ability to increase
reliability, decrease costs, and enlarge penetration rates for distribution generation systems …

Existing developments in adaptive smart grid protection: A review

H Khalid, A Shobole - Electric Power Systems Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The future smart power grid where Distributed Generations (DGs) are highly integrated and
self-healing is required is intended to provide reliable and quality power in economic and …

Highly sensitive and fast microgrid protection using optimal coordination scheme and nonstandard tripping characteristics

F Alasali, N El-Naily, E Zarour, SM Saad - International Journal of Electrical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tripping time and optimal overcurrent coordination are nowadays one of the main power
system protection concern, due to the high penetration of renewable energy sources in the …

Innovative Adaptive Protection Approach to Maximize the Security and Performance of Phase/Earth Overcurrent Relay for Microgrid Considering Earth Fault Scenarios …

N El-Naily, SM Saad, A Elhaffar, E Zarour… - Electric Power Systems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microgrids are increasingly paying attention to the emerging of distributed energy resources.
However, microgrid protection has challenged engineers because of the varying nature of …

Optimized protection coordination of microgrids considering power quality-based voltage indices incorporating optimal sizing and placement of fault current limiters

A Azimi, H Hashemi-Dezaki - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Several solutions, such as fault current limiters (FCLs), have been utilized to mitigate the
challenges of smart grids and ADNs' protection schemes. However, less attention has been …

Optimized protection coordination of smart grids considering N-1 contingency based on reliability-oriented probability of various topologies

S Sadeghi, H Hashemi-Dezaki… - Electric Power Systems …, 2022 - Elsevier
The optimized protection system is critical in the design of microgrids (MGs) and smart grids
(SGs). Different studies have tried to respond to MGs protection challenges, such as the …

An adaptive protection coordination for microgrids utilizing an improved optimization technique for user-defined DOCRs characteristics with different groups of settings …

O Merabet, A Kheldoun, M Bouchahdane… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the increased integration of distributed generation (DG) in electric power systems,
optimal coordination of overcurrent relays has become a key problem in power distribution …

Optimal stability-oriented protection coordination of smart grid's directional overcurrent relays based on optimized tripping characteristics in double-inverse model …

A Narimani, H Hashemi-Dezaki - International Journal of Electrical Power & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Many studies have been devoted to developing the optimized protection schemes of smart
grids. However, there is a research gap about studying the transient stability constraints in …

A new adaptive protection approach for overcurrent relays using novel nonstandard current-voltage characteristics

E Zarour, F Alasali, O Alsmadi, N El-Naily - Electric Power Systems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the high penetration of renewable energy sources in the electrical power network,
tripping time and ideal overcurrent coordination are currently among the key power system …