A novel technique for high impedance fault identification

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 738-744

  Wai, David Chan Tat ^a,b   Yibin, Xia ^b  

^a IEEE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

EMTP simulation; Fault detection; High impedance fault; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HIGH IMPEDANCE FAULTS (HIF); WAVELET ANALYSIS FILTER BANKS (WAFB);

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 0032123942     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.686968     Document Type: Article

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