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A Review of DC Micro-grid Protection

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Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS 2013)

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In this paper, an overview of DC micro-grid is described, which includes the status of DC micro-grid protection and its future development. The paper presents the key techniques of DC micro-grid protection. So far, standards, guidelines and techniques for DC micro-grid protection are well behind AC system. This paper summarizes the protective devices and protective methods of different DC micro-grid structures. The protective devices include fuses, circuit breakers and power-electronic switches. According to a series of research achievements, the paper points out the technological gaps and proposes some ideas for DC micro-grid protection in the future.

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    Yuhong Xie, Jia Ning, Yanquan Huang & Zhihui Jian

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Xie, Y., Ning, J., Huang, Y., Jia, J., Jian, Z. (2013). A Review of DC Micro-grid Protection. In: Liu, D., Alippi, C., Zhao, D., Hussain, A. (eds) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7888. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38786-9_38

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