This Thesis was Defended Successfully on 19/2/2023 and approved by Tareq Husam Foqha Radial Network 1.3 Significance of Research Figure 1.1 The significance of this research derives from the importance of integrating two Protection System Concepts Note: Subfigure (A) represents the protection zones in power system and it is adapted from [17], Overcurrent relay operating time characteristics. Note: Adapted from [16]. Subfigure (A) represents definite current operating characteristic of th overcurrent relay, subfigure (B) represents definite time operating characteristic of the overcurrent relay subfigure (C) represents inverse time operating characteristic of the overcurrent relay and subfigure (D represents IDMT operating characteristic of the overcurrent relay. Note: Adapted from [21]. Subfigure (A) represents the IEC standard operating characteristic curves of the overcurrent relay and Subfigure (B) represents the IEEE standard operating characteristic. Figure 1.4 Figure 1.5 relays by allowing an overload margin exceeding the nominal current [15]: Radial Power System Protection Comparison between mathematically-based optimization methods. 1.7.1.2 Meta-Heuristic Optimization Techniques Table 1.2 Subjected to (refer to equations 4.4, 4.6 4.9 and 4.10): 3.2.1 Linear Programming Formulation The IEEE 3-bus network's PS values for the relays Table 3.1 Figure 3.1 TMS values by LP formulation for the IEEE 3-bus network Total operation time compared to the literature for the proposed methods Comparison of total net gain in time obtained by proposed methods with the algorithms used in the literature Percentage improvement of the proposed methods compared to other algorithms in the literature for IEEE 3-bus network in terms of the net relay operational time The CTI of each relay pair is presented in Table 3.4. It is demonstrated each backup an primary relay pair satisfy the CTI criteria and that all of them are greater than 0.2. The CTI of each relay pair is presented in Table 3.4. It is demonstrated each backup and CTI using the LP formulation for the IEEE 3-bus network 3.2.2 Non Linear Programming Formulation Relay settings for IEEE 3-bus network by NLP formulation Comparison of the proposed methods' percentage improvement and the overall net gain in time over the literature's algorithms From the obtained results, it can be concluded that the suggested methods have once Total operation time compared to the literature for the proposed methods CTI using the NLP formulation for the IEEE 3-bus network 3.3 Test System IT: IEEE 6-bus Network Table 3.7 Number of fitness evaluation for the GA and hybrid algorithms Table 3.8 IEC and IEEE Constants for Standard Overcurrent Relays. Time-delay Coordination for Definite-Time Protection Figure B.4 Current-based Coordination for Combined Inverse-Time and Instantaneous Protection Classifications of optimization techniques Figure D.1 Figure D.2 Note: Adapted from [35]. Figure D.4 Note: Adapted from [99]. Figure D.8 Three-phase short circuit current of IEEE 3-bus network Current transformer ratio for primary relays in IEEE 3-bus network Three-phase short circuit current of IEEE 6-bus network Current transformer ratio for primary relays in IEEE 6-bus network IEEE 9-bus network single-line diagram Current transformer ratio for primary relays in IEEE 15-bus network Figure E.4 PS values for relays in IEEE 6-bus network LP-based relay settings for the IEEE 6-bus network Comparison of the proposed methods' percentage improvement and the overall net gain in time over the literature's algorithms CTI using the LP formulation for the IEEE 6-bus network NLP-based relay settings for the IEEE 6-bus network CTI using the NLP formulation for the IEEE 6-bus network Total operation time compared to the literature for the proposed methods Total operating time of the proposed methods. NLP-based relay settings for the IEEE 9-bus network Comparison of the proposed methods' percentage improvement and the overall net gain in time over the literature's algorithms CTI using the NLP formulation for the IEEE 9-bus network Total operation time compared to the literature for the proposed methods Percentage improvement of the proposed methods compared to other algorithms in the literature for IEEE 3-bus network in terms of the net relay operational time NLP-based relay settings for the IEEE 15-bus network Comparison of the results for IEEE 15-bus network with NLP formulation. CTI using the NLP formulation for the IEEE 15-bus network Total operational time compared to the literature for the proposed algorithms.
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