Arcing fault detection in underground distribution networks - feasibility study

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1756-1761

  Charytoniuk, Wiktor ^a   Lee, Wei Jen ^a   Chen, Mo Shing ^a   Cultrera, Joe ^b   Maffetone, Theodore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OVERCURRENT PROTECTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

UNDERGROUND DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS;

EID: 0034315320     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.887231     Document Type: Article

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