Distribution high impedance fault detection utilizing high frequency current components

IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems

Volumn PAS-101, Issue 6, 1982, Pages 1596-1606

  Aucoin, B Mike ^a   Russell, B Don ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION - RELAY PROTECTION; ELECTRIC RELAYS - COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

FAULT CLEARING; HIGH-IMPEDANCE FAULT DETECTORS; HIGH-IMPEDANCE FAULTS; MICROCOMPUTERS;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 0020148070     PISSN: 00189510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAS.1982.317209     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. “The Interruption of Downed Conductors on Low-Voltage Distribution Systems,” IEEE Power System Relaying Committee Report, October 1976, Appendix A, Data Collected by Pennsylvania Power and Light Co., “1974 and 1975 Fallen 12 kV Overhead Distribution Conductors, Breakdown of 390 Cases.”
2. Ibid, “Report of Distribution Conductor Staged Fault Tests.”
3. Ibid, “Questionnaires to EEI T&D Committee Member Companies.”
4. IEEE Power System Relaying Committee Report, op.cit.
5. R. H. Kaufman and J. C. Page, “Arcing Fault Protection in a Low Voltage Power Distribution System - Nature of the Problem,” Power Apparatus and Systems (AIEE), June 1960, No. 48, pp. 160–165.
6. J. R. Dunki - Jacobs, “The Effects of Arcing Ground Faults on Low Voltage System Design” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. IA-8, No. 3, May/June 1972, pp. 223–230.
7. William L. Beasley, “An Investigation of the Radiated Signals Produced by Small Sparks on Power Lines,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, January 1970, pp. 6–7.
8. R. H. Kaufman and J. C. Page, op.cit.
9. J. R. Dunki-Jacobs, op.cit.
10. B. P. Lathi, Communications Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1968, p. 68.
11. A. R. van C. Warrington, Protective Relays: Their Theory and Practice, Vol. 2, Chapman and Hall, London, 1969.
12. United States Patent No. 3,515,943 issued to Albert R. van Cortlandt Warrington, June 2, 1970, “Electrical Fault Detector.”
13. Thomas J. Talley, “Power Spectrum Estimates of High Frequency Noise Generated by High Impedance Arcing Fautls on Distribution Systems,” M.S. Thesis, Texas A&M University, December 1979.