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Protection And Control Of Active Distribution Networks And Microgrids, Mohammad Amin Zamani

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis is mainly focused on (i) modeling and control of Electronically Coupled Distributed Energy Resources (EC-DERs) under severe network imbalances and transient incidents, and (ii) protection of active distribution networks and microgrids against different types of faults. In the first part, an enhanced control strategy is proposed to improve the performance of EC-DERs under faults and transient disturbances, in a multi-unit microgrid setting. With the use of proposed control strategy, the host microgrid can ride through network faults, irrespective of whether they take place within the microgrid jurisdiction or impact the upstream grid, and quickly reclaim its pre-fault operating …