Emergency response operations in electric distribution systems involve a host of decision-making problems at the reliability, performance monitoring and evaluation, and contingency planning levels. Those operations include fault diagnosis, fault location, fault isolation, restoration, and repair. As the first of a two-part survey, this paper reviews optimization models and solution methodologie...

In order to realize the intelligent diagnosis of the electric pump and the motor working condition during the operation period of the electric pump well, an expert system based on fault tree and rete algorithm is realized. Through the analysis on the fault characteristics of the electric pump well, established the fault tree and knowledge base that support electric pump and motor working condit...

This paper presents a support vector machine (SVMs) approach for locating and diagnosing faults in electric power distribution feeders. The proposed approach is based on the measurements available at the substation and remote terminal units (RTUs). To illustrate the proposed methodology, a practical distribution feeder emanating from 132/11KV-grid substation in India with loads is considered. T...

Due to the integration of modern technology such as electric vehicles, the emphasis is expected to shift from mechanical to electric power. Therefore, the need of increasing the power transmission capacity of the electric grid gets highlighted. Since, the construction of transmission lines is a tedious task owing to legalities, environmental impacts and high costs, the series compensated transm...

This Paper focuses on detecting, classifying and locating faults on electric power transmission lines. Fault detection, fault classification and fault location have been achieved by using artificial neural networks. Feedforward networks have been employed along with backpropagation algorithm for each of the three phases in the Fault location process. Analysis on neural networks with varying num...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard for Healthcare Facilities (NFPA 99) requires that wet location patient care areas be provided with “special protection against electric shock.” This paper will list the hazards associated with electric shock and the interruption of electrical power. An Isolated Power System (IPS) is one way of providing such protection, and has the inhere...