In this paper, authors present a comparative study of inductive and resistive superconducting fault current limiters (SFCL) from current limitation and power system transient stability point of view. Different types of SFCL can be used to decrease the amplitude of fault current in a power system. The two most used are resistive type (rSFCL) and inductive type (iSFCL). However, no studies have b...

Current issues in vibration-based fault diagnostics and prognostics are: (a) fault/damage identification; (b) localization; and (c) monitoring. The fault/damage identification and localization are needed for diagnostics. The monitoring allows observing the fault/damage progression in time. Based on monitoring, the prognostics of the moment of failure, and hence of the remaining life could be pe...

Part I of this paper set sets forth theory and algorithms for adaptive fault detection/location technique, which is based on Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU). This paper is Part II of this paper set. A new timing device named “Global Synchronism Clock Generator, GSCG” including its hardware and software design is described in this paper. Experimental results show that the synchronized error of ris...

Autotransformers (ATs) have been widely used for many years. For large size ATs, a tertiary winding is usually included. Sometimes the tertiary winding is loaded for station service, local loads, VAR compensation, etc. Other times, the tertiary winding is buried and acts as stabilizing winding which provides a path for zero-sequence current and 3rd harmonic current. Three-winding ATs present so...

Covered conductors are an alternative to aluminum core steel reinforced medium voltage overhead lines in forested terrains. The covered highly reliable due the XLPE insulation system, which prevents short-circuit current case of contact phases with surrounding vegetation. However, disadvantage conductor operation is problematic detection high impedance faults. Such type faults usually caused by...

SUMMARY In this paper, the initial transients due to arc reignitions associated with high impedance faults caused by leaning trees are extracted using discrete wavelet transform (DWT). In this way, the fault occurrence is localized. The feature extraction is carried out for the phase quantities corresponding to a band frequency 12.5–6.25 kHz. The detection security is enhanced because the DWT c...

Environmental concerns along with the increasing demand on electrical power, have led to power generation of renewable sources like wind. Connecting wind turbines in large scale powers with transmission network makes new challenges like the impact of these renewable sources on power system protection. This paper studies the impact of fault resistance and its location on voltage and current fund...

An intelligent approach for high impedance fault (HIF) detection in power distribution feeders using advanced signal-processing techniques such as time–time and time–frequency transforms combined with neural network is presented. As the detection of HIFs is generally difficult by the conventional over-current relays, both time and frequency information are required to be extracted to detect and...

In order to improve the power quality maintenance and reliability of power supply, different types of faults on the transmission line namely: open-circuit (OC), short-circuit (SC), high impedance faults (HIF) and the fault caused by direct lightning strike (LS) have been investigated in this paper. The disturbances have been modelled and simulated using a well-known transient simulation tool Al...