Characteristic study and time-domain discrete-wavelet-transform based hybrid detection of series DC arc faults

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3103-3115

  Yao, Xiu ^a   Herrera, Luis ^a   Ji, Shengchang ^b   Zou, Ke ^c   Wang, Jin ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc characteristics; dc arc; fault detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893941735     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2273292     Document Type: Article

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