Early Identification and Location of Short-Circuit Fault in Grid-Connected AC Microgrid

Abstract

With the rapid development of microgrid and large-scale grid-connected operation, the detection and location of short-circuit faults in microgrid has become a bottleneck. In this paper, a simulation model of short-circuit fault in low-voltage AC microgrid is built on PSCAD/EMTDC. The characteristics of current wavelet energy spectrum under various short-circuit fault states are studied and the early detection of faults is realized. Based on the relationship between the first peak value of fault current wavelet energy spectrum and the location of short-circuit points, a method for early detection and area location of short-circuit faults in microgrid is proposed. The simulation and experimental results show that this method can detect and locate the short-circuit fault area of microgrid quickly and accurately.