Are voltage sags destroying equipment?

IEEE Industry Applications Magazine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 12-21

  Bendre, Ashish ^a   Divan, Deepak ^b   Kranz, William ^c   Brumsickle, William E ^c  

^a DRS Sensors and Targeting Systems Inc   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Softswitching Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC SURGES;

CURRENT SURGE; EQUIPMENT SPECIFICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION EQUIPMENT; POWER QUALITY DISTURBANCES; VOLTAGE SAGS; WEB-BASED MONITORING SYSTEM;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

EID: 33748540741     PISSN: 10772618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIA.2006.1678326     Document Type: Article

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