Research Article
Why Dealing with Electrical Faults for Smart Microgrid is not Enough?
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-031-06371-8_5, author={Pragya Kirti Gupta and Sai Shibu Narayanan Babu and Anjana Mohandas Sheeladevi and Venkatesh Pampana}, title={Why Dealing with Electrical Faults for Smart Microgrid is not Enough?}, proceedings={Science and Technologies for Smart Cities. 7th EAI International Conference, SmartCity360°, Virtual Event, December 2-4, 2021, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={SMARTCITY}, year={2022}, month={6}, keywords={Faults Failures Microgrid challenges Cause-effect analysis Fishbone analysis Cascading faults Resilience Self-healing}, doi={10.1007/978-3-031-06371-8_5} }- Pragya Kirti Gupta
Sai Shibu Narayanan Babu
Anjana Mohandas Sheeladevi
Venkatesh Pampana
Year: 2022
Why Dealing with Electrical Faults for Smart Microgrid is not Enough?
SMARTCITY
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06371-8_5
Abstract
With increasing use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in smart grids, the need to study the faults induced by software and communication systems is important towards realizing stable operation of microgrids. Since the effect of faults in the electrical, communication and software systems is different, the impact of these faults in each other system, the knowledge of their effects and causes is necessary to design appropriate recovery actions. In this paper, we study the faults and their impact on the microgrids. We emphasize on the necessity of software and communication fault handling in order to create resilient microgrids. This paper highlights the effects of software and communication faults on electrical system and vice-versa. A detailed study of the commonly occurring faults in a microgrid and their cascading effects is presented. Towards this a cause-and-effect analysis of the commonly occurring faults on the performance of the microgrid is carried out. Finally, we identify potential research areas where the fault handling approaches can be included and improved to make the microgrid more resilient.
