Improved fault location on distribution feeders based on matching during-fault voltage sags

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 852-862

  Pereira, Rodrigo Aparecido Fernandes ^a   da Silva, Luis Gustavo Wesz ^b   Kezunovic, Mladen ^c   Mantovani, Josée Roberto Sanches ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault location; Power distribution; Voltage measurement; Voltage sags

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS; FAULT LOCATION; FAULT LOCATION ALGORITHMS; FAULT VOLTAGES; FAULTY NODES; MAINTENANCE CREWS; POWER DISTRIBUTION; TEST RESULTS; VOLTAGE SAGS;

ALGORITHMS; CURRENT LIMITING REACTORS; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; FEEDING; REPAIR; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

EID: 67349125458     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2014480     Document Type: Article

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