The MIDAS project began at 2006 as collaboration between Endesa, Sadiel and the University of Seville. The objective of the MIDAS project is the detection of Non-Technical Losses (NTLs) on power utilities. The NTLs represent the non-billed energy due to faults or illegal manipulations in clients’ facilities. Initially, research lines study the application of techniques of data mining and neural...

A controlled fire burner was constructed where various natural vegetation species could be used as fuel. The burner was equipped with thermocouples to measure fuel surface temperature and used as a cavity for microwaves with a laboratory quality 2-port vector network analyzer to determine electrical conductivity from S-parameters. Electrical conductivity for vegetation material flames is import...

In this article are presented the basic principles of the numerical protections used for protecting the high-voltage electric lines (110 kV). Is achieved a study for implementing a numerical distance protection DIPA 100, for a high-voltage line (an example from practice). For the numerical relay, is shown the protection characteristic of DIPA 100, characteristics of operation to faults ‘phase-p...

Lightning location systems (LLS) provide data on lightning activity such as type, GPS location, exact time of the stroke, current amplitude, measurement error, etc. The proper application LLS using customized software support can be a powerful decision-making tool in control, maintenance and development power systems. utilization requires with specific functionalities. Software functionalities ...

This study concerns the identification and interpretation of current voltage signals during complex non-simultaneous disturbances in high-voltage overhead lines. It includes topics related to both search for optimal model system as well analysis obtained results. The available EMT-like tools these phenomena are discussed. Models high transmission lines presented along with a discussion their su...

This paper presents a novel method for performing automatic power quality diagnosis to identify the causes of short duration voltage disturbances such as voltage sags and swells. Such voltage disturbances can be caused by permanent or non permanent faults. A permanent fault causes permanent damage and power interruption to the customers whereas a non permanent fault can be categorized as either...

the ever increasing rate of power consumption has led to an increase in public exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields (elf-mfs) and brought severe concerns about their health effects. considering previous studies and the facts about potential health effects of these fields, the present study aimed to evaluate the elf-mf flux densities from power distribution lines near hospitals i...

This paper discusses the Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) operation and control for Voltage sags compensation. DVR is a series connected power electronic based device that can quickly mitigate the voltage sags in the system and restore the load voltage to the pre-fault value. Voltage sag associated with faults in transmission and distribution systems, energizing of transformers, and starting of l...