TY - GEN
T1 - Superconducting Saturable Core Reactor as Variable Inductance for Controlling the Power Flow in a Transmission Line
AU - Miúdo, Leonardo
AU - Pina, João Murta
AU - Amaro, Nuno
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This research was funded (in part) by the Portuguese FCT program, Center of Technology and Systems (CTS) UIDB/00066/2020 / UIDP/00066/2020 and gratefully thank the Instituto Nacional de Gestão de Bolsas de Estudo (INAGBE) – Angola for financial support.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Worldwide electric energy consumption is increasing, partially due to the electrification of sectors such as transportation. Simultaneously, there is a need to implement the ongoing energy transition with renewable energy generation, which results in increased transmission capacity needs. This paper uses steady-state simulations (power flow analysis) in an IEEE standard electrical grid of three buses using a saturable core reactor (SCR) with a high-temperature superconducting (HTS) DC coil, on a 2-core model, to optimize the power flow. The SCR-HTS works as a variable inductance, thus having power flow control capabilities, where superconducting materials are used to substantially decrease losses when compared to conventional conductors. Different scenarios are simulated in MATLAB using a developed Newton-Raphson (NR) algorithm and validated using PSSE. Results indicate that the SCR-HTS can effectively control the power flow in transmission lines and can be used as a solution to further integrate renewable energy sources in the electrical grid and to ensure safe operating conditions in contingency cases.
AB - Worldwide electric energy consumption is increasing, partially due to the electrification of sectors such as transportation. Simultaneously, there is a need to implement the ongoing energy transition with renewable energy generation, which results in increased transmission capacity needs. This paper uses steady-state simulations (power flow analysis) in an IEEE standard electrical grid of three buses using a saturable core reactor (SCR) with a high-temperature superconducting (HTS) DC coil, on a 2-core model, to optimize the power flow. The SCR-HTS works as a variable inductance, thus having power flow control capabilities, where superconducting materials are used to substantially decrease losses when compared to conventional conductors. Different scenarios are simulated in MATLAB using a developed Newton-Raphson (NR) algorithm and validated using PSSE. Results indicate that the SCR-HTS can effectively control the power flow in transmission lines and can be used as a solution to further integrate renewable energy sources in the electrical grid and to ensure safe operating conditions in contingency cases.
KW - Power Flow
KW - Saturable Core Reactor
KW - Superconducting
KW - Transmission Line
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-36007-7_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-36007-7_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85164963965
SN - 978-3-031-36006-0
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 82
EP - 94
BT - Technological Innovation for Connected Cyber Physical Spaces
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, Luís M.
A2 - Ferrada, Filipa
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 14th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2023
Y2 - 5 July 2023 through 7 July 2023
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