Evaluation of a new proposal for an arcing fault detection method based on wavelet packet analysis

European Transactions on Electrical Power

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 161-174

  Lazkano, Andoni ^a   Ruiz, Jesus ^a   Aramendi, Elisabete ^a   Leturiondo, Luis Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arcing fault; High impedance faults; Staged fault test; Wavelet packet analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ARCING FAULT; HIGH IMPEDANCE FAULTS; STAGED FAULT TEST; WAVELET PACKET ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 5744236842     PISSN: 1430144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etep.13     Document Type: Article

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