This paper presents the impact of the Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) on the performance of distance protection of EHV transmission lines. A 400kV transmission system having midpoint connected STATCOM with its control circuit is modeled using MATLAB/SIMULINK software. The impact of STATCOM on distance relay for different fault conditions and different fault locations is analyzed. Simul...

The paper deals with mesh-connected massively parallel systems aaected by failures. The complexity of a local diagnostic procedure, based on new deenitions of the local k-diagnosability and the r-fault-tolerance, is analysed. It depends on distances between individual fault clusters and on fault cluster diameters. In particular cases the minimum distance between fault clusters can be enlarged o...

Short-circuit calculations are extremely important in the application and setting of protective relays and the analysis of power system operations. This paper illustrates the calculation of fault currents and voltages during intermediate faults in underground cables, taking into consideration the cable sheath bonding and grounding method. The compensated ground loop impedance for faults along t...

historical earthquakes play a notable role in engineering seismology. the historical kashan-sialk region, 3 km south of kashan, was surveyed in the viewpoint of historical earthquakes events. several devastating historical earthquakes, occurred in the bc time, identified based on archaeological studies and evidences gathered from field study. in this respect a variety of information, namely tim...

This paper proposes an integrated real time fault analysis tool for transmission line. The two primary techniques used in the fault analysis tool, uzzy adaptive resonance theory (ART) neural network and synchronized sampling, can offer accurate fault detection, classification, internal/external ault differentiation, and fault location. The paper makes several extensions of the two techniques so...

two dimensional single frequency scalar vlf data modeling has been studied in this research. vlf method is one of the electromagnetic investigation methods. radio frequency waves are used for investigation of conductive deposits (paal, 1968). synthetic modeling and inversion of single frequency and multiple frequencies of vlf signals was done by oskooi (2004) for two dimensional simple structur...

This paper analyzes the effects of population aging on the preferred legal retirement age. What is revealed is the crucial role that the indirect ’macro’ effects resulting from a change in the legal retirement age play in the optimal decision. Two Social Security systems are studied. Under a defined contribution scheme aging lowers the preferred ∗All correspondence to Francisco Lagos. The autho...

In this paper, impedance based method and matching approaches were used separately to detect three phase to ground fault (LLLGF). In order to observe the accuracy of each method, Non-homogeneous distribution network was used as a tested network. Actual data from TNB (Tenaga National Berhad) Malaysia was adopted to model the network by using PSCAD/EMTDC simulation program. Both methods were test...

I revisit the fault-tolerance of cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs), expanding on the work of Driscoll et al [1]. I introduce the concepts of Schrödinger-Hamming weight and Schrödinger-Hamming distance, and I argue that under a fault model in which stuck-at-one-half or slightly-out-of-spec faults dominate, current methods for computing the fault detection of CRCs may be over-optimistic. Keywords-c...