In this paper, the impacts of installing superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL)in radial and loop power distribution system are evaluated to improve voltage sag in both cases of with and without distributed generations (DG). Among various SFCLs, the hybrid type with a superconducting element in parallel with a current limiting reactor (CLR) is selected. This is more effective than resisto...

Condition monitoring and protection methods based on the analysis of the machine's current are widely used according to non-invasive characteristics of current transformers. It should be noted that, these sensors are installed by default in the machine control center. On the other hand, condition monitoring based on mathematical methods has been proposed in literature. However, they are model b...

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...

Transmission lines forms the backbone of the transmission and distribution networks which powers the nation. No modern society can imagine its existence without power supplies which runs everything ranging from consumer electronics to bullet trains. Electrical power systems suffer from unexpected failures due to various random causes. Unpredicted faults that occur in power systems are required ...

In this paper, a method of low power analog testing is proposed. In spite of having Oscillation Based Built in Self-Test methodology (OBIST), a look up table based (LUT) low power testing approach has been proposed to find out the faulty circuit and also to sort out the particular fault location in the circuit. In this paper an operational amplifier, which is the basic building block in the ana...

abstract wenner direct contact method is a method of estimating apparent electrical conductivity (eca) of agricultural soils in situ. this method can be affected by factors such as quality of electrodes in contact with soil, type of employed electric current, moisture content, clay content and compaction of soil. in this research, the effect of electrode type (rod and plate) and electric curren...

A fault occurs when two or more conductors come in contact with each other or ground. Ground faults are considered as one of the main problems in power systems and account for more than 80% of all faults. This paper focuses on detecting faults on electric power transmission lines. Fault detection have been achieved by using artificial neural networks.