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Coordination and optimum design of hybrid circuit breakers for operation in multi-terminal HVDC systems

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The protection of multi-terminal HVDC systems by means of hybrid circuit breakers is a challenge because without coordination between the circuit breakers some unfaulted sections of the system could be disconnected. This paper proposes a new hybrid circuit breaker operation that accounts for the response of all circuit breakers installed to protect a multi-terminal HVDC system in order to coordinate them and avoid a false operation. The paper also includes the optimum selection of the main circuit breaker parameters installed to protect a multi-terminal HVDC system. The application of the procedure, based on a parallel MATLAB-EMTP application previously presented by the authors, shows that the resulting ranges of parameter values that optimize circuit breaker operations when the goal is to protect a multi-terminal HVDC system can be different from those obtained for a two-terminal system.

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This work has been supported by the project ESPE, within the KIC InnoEnergy consortium.

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    Javier A. Corea-Araujo & Juan A. Martinez-Velasco

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Corea-Araujo, J.A., Martinez-Velasco, J.A. Coordination and optimum design of hybrid circuit breakers for operation in multi-terminal HVDC systems. Electr Eng 100, 2603–2616 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-018-0719-3

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