Instrumentation and measurement of a power distribution system laboratory for meter placement and network reconfiguration studies

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1224-1230

  Cecchi, Valentina ^a   Yang, Xiaoguang ^a   Miu, Karen ^a   Nwankpa, Chika O ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Control system; Energy management system; Instrumentation; Laboratory; Measurement; Meter placement; Network reconfiguration; Power distribution systems

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; METER PLACEMENT; NETWORK RECONFIGURATION; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM;

AUTOMATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; INSTRUMENTS; LABORATORIES;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547885710     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.900420     Document Type: Article

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