Field investigation and analysis of incipient faults leading to a catastrophic failure in an underground distribution feeder

2009 IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, PSCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Moghe, Rohit ^a   Mousavi, Mirrasoul J ^b   Stoupis, James ^b   McGowan, John ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution system; Incipient fault; Splice failure; Underground cable

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; FIELD DATA; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INCIPIENT FAULT; INCIPIENT FAULTS; SPLICE FAILURE; SYMPTOM PARAMETERS; UNDERGROUND DISTRIBUTION; UNDERGROUND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM;

CABLES; CURRENT LIMITING REACTORS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FEEDING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; POWER TRANSMISSION; UNDERGROUND CABLES; UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 70349170129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PSCE.2009.4840203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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