Estimation of the surge arrester outage rate caused by lightning overvoltages

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 116-122

  Savic, Milan S ^a  

^a School of Electrical Engineering   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Lightning discharges; Medium voltage networks; Surge arresters

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; ESTIMATION; LIGHTNING ARRESTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LIGHTNING DISCHARGES; MEDIUM VOLTAGE NETWORKS; SURGE ARRESTERS;

SURGE PROTECTION;

EID: 12544250378     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2004.835435     Document Type: Article

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