Anatomy of power system blackouts: Preventive relaying strategies

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 708-714

  Tamronglak, S ^a,b   Horowitz, S H ^a   Phadke, A G ^a,b   Thorp, J S ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

Author keywords

Adaptive relaying; Blackouts; Computer relaying; Hidden failures; Regions of vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RELAYING; ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; BLACKOUTS; COMPUTER RELAYING; HIDDEN FAILURES;

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC FAULT LOCATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION; ELECTRIC RELAYS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RELAY PROTECTION;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030126334     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.489327     Document Type: Article

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