Transformer and feeder load balancing in a distribution system reduces the risk of overloads due to load changes. The possible out of service area following the occurrence of a fault is also reduced. However, keeping in view the life expectancy of the switches, it is desirable that the number of switching operations is kept to a minimum. A new algorithm for load balancing based on fuzzy set dec...

Various methods have been presented to improve the performance of buildings against earthquakes. Friction damper device is one of the energy dissipation devices that appropriately absorbs and dissipates the input energy and decreases displacements. In this paper, the possibility of using endurance time method to determine the efficiency index and optimum slip load for these dampers was investig...

In Industrial area one 11KV feeder feeds a static power converter fed DC motor load of variable power and some usual loads i.e domestic to industrial loads. Faults at DC motor load affect the other feeder loads. The L-G and L-L faults followed by open conductor fault on DC motor load effect the other feeder loads. This paper deals with the voltage dips and correction using the DSTATCOM, a custo...

Clusters and distributed systems offer two important advantages, viz. fault tolerance and high performance through load sharing. When all computers are up and running, we would like the load to be evenly distributed among the computers. When one or more computers break down the load on these computers must be redistributed to other computers in the cluster. The redistribution is determined by t...

The conventional reclosing of a distribution system is performed after a fixed dead time. However, it may lead to the increased outage time due to delayed reclosing. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new adaptive reclosing scheme. The electrostatic induction is analyzed under at during-fault and post-fault conditions. Based on this analysis, the method to judge the fault clearance us...

Received Jun 9, 2017 Revised Nov 20, 2017 Accepted Dec 11, 2017 Gears are important component of the rotational power transmission system and are largely used in variable load and speed applications. The faults on the gear generate excessive vibration which leads to breakdown of the machine. Sensor based methods could diagnose gear faults but proved to be expensive and have limited applications...

In this paper we propose a dynamically reconfigurable failure recovery scheme developed for Network-on-Chip (NoC) based systems. The recovery scheme is based on a checkpointing and rollback protocol and permits enhancing the system fault tolerance capabilities by exploiting information on traffic load and failure rate. The increased performance of the fault tolerance mechanism is achieved by si...

In this work, we propose D-Tree, a dynamic distributed deterministic structure for data management in decentralized networks. We present in brief the theoretical algorithmic analysis, in which our proposed structure is based on, and we describe thoroughly the key aspects of the implementation. Conducting experiments, we verify that the implemented structure outperforms other well-known hierarch...

In power system protection, the need to know the load current together with the fault level detected by a relay is important. This is due to the fact that the relay is required to isolate the equipment being protected if a fault is present and keep the breaker associated with it closed if the current level is lower than the maximum load level. This is not an issue for a radial system. This is n...