Detecting high impedance faults utilizing combined phase voltages with neutral line current

International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Yang, Ming Ta ^a   Gu, Jhy Cherng ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering St John's and St Mary's Institute of Technology ^*  (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arcing fault; Discrete wavelet transform; Faults; High impedance faults; Neural networks; Neutral line current; Protection

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FAULT DETECTION; FAULTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ARCING FAULTS; CONVENTIONAL CURRENTS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMATION; DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS; HIGH IMPEDANCE FAULT; NEURAL NETWORK (NN); NEUTRAL LINE; PROTECTION;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 79952379900     PISSN: 21945756     EISSN: 1553779X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1553-779X.1036     Document Type: Article

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