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Abstract
The power system protection is one of the greatest concerns for electrical power engineers to have robust and secure systems. The penetration of renewable energy sources in the conventional power systems has made it more complex to make full use of the advantages of the renewable sources, while maintaining the system parameters within the acceptable limits.
The main aim of this thesis is to deal with the changing nature of the distributed generators (DGs) introduced in the network, by employing an adaptive protection scheme to trace the status of DGs connection to the network and accordingly update the relay settings to be convenient with the operating case. This adaptive coordination scheme is utilized to control the operation of overcurrent relays (OCRs) and directional overcurrent relays (DOCRs).
Also, this thesis is assessing the effect of utilizing current-based techniques with DOCRs instead of the conventional technique which depends on voltage and current measurements. These techniques reduce the cost of using voltage transformer with the DOCRs in the future. Different scenarios are performed to test the proposed adaptive coordination scheme. Moreover, a comparison with the conventional non adaptive system is presented to validate the proposed scheme contribution.
The results of simulations are investigated and analyzed. Results confirm the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed scheme when compared with non-adaptive conventional type of DOCRs. The current-based technique is simulated as well, and results are obtained that shows the reliability of the proposed current-based technique. This makes the adaptive scheme more practical and feasible to be implemented in the real networks without the burden of requiring bulky voltage transformers.