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Title: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for protecting and controlling a microgrid with a dynamic boundary

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1986873

Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for protecting and controlling a microgrid with a dynamic boundary are disclosed. One method includes detecting a fault in a microgrid that includes a dynamic point-of-common-coupling (PCC), in response to determining that the microgrid is operating in a grid-connected mode, isolating the fault by tripping a microgrid side smart switch and a grid side smart switch that are located immediately adjacent to the fault, initiating the reclosing of the grid side smart switch, and initiating the reclosing for the microgrid side smart switch via resynchronization if the grid side smart switch is successfully reclosed, and in response to determining that the microgrid is operating in an islanded mode, isolating the fault by tripping a microgrid side smart switch that is located immediately adjacent to the fault, and initiating the reclosing of the microgrid side smart switch.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); National Science Foundation (NSF)
DOE Contract Number:
AR0000665; EEC-1041877
Assignee:
University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, TN)
Patent Number(s):
11,515,702
Application Number:
16/775,836
OSTI ID:
1986873
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 01/29/2020
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Real-Time Control and Operation for a Flexible Microgrid with Dynamic Boundary conference September 2018

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