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...

Power system reliability and continuous electric power supply without downtimes or with a few as shorter as possible interruptions are basic for financial success in today's power market (EN50160). So, modern customer oriented relationships and efficient electricity service have to be included in nowadays power system management. Reliability and availability are concept very close to electric p...

Web Services for Automated Fault Analysis (WS-AFA) in Electrical Power System are described in this paper. WS-AFA is a new Information Technology solution for automated investigation and analysis of fault and disturbance records obtained from Digital Fault Recorders (DFRs) or other Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) in substations. The paper describes the overall system architecture as well ...

This paper describes recent implementations and proposes new developments related to automated fault and disturbance analysis. An advanced expert system for automated analysis of faults and related operations of protective relays using DFR data is described first. Further improvements in the fault location using synchronized sampling are discussed next. Possibility for DFR modifications to allo...

In this paper a new method is proposed that can be used to differentiate faults from switching transients. The method is primarily intended for use in systems where fast fault detection and fast fault clearing before the first peak of the fault current are required. An industrial system, in which high short-circuit power is desired but in which high shortcircuit currents cannot be tolerated is ...

Fault diagnosis is a vital discussion in power systems restoration. Recently, much research endeavors have been done for fault section diagnosis of power systems by using several techniques, such as rule-based expert system, logic-based expert system, fuzzy relation based expert system, neural network, optimization techniques based approach, etc. They diagnose the fault from different ways. How...

The problem of fault location has been studied deeply for transmission lines due its importance in the power system. Nowadays the problem of fault location on distribution systems is receiving special attention mainly because of the power quality regulations. This paper presents some of the most relevant methods for fault location in radial power systems. Additionally here is presented an hybri...

In this paper, the performance analysis of wind turbine as a distributed generation unit is presented. In this study a model of wind power is driven by an induction machine. Wind power that is distributed generation is capable of supplying power to ac power distribution network. Wind power generation system is modeled and simulated using Matlab Simulink software such that it can be suitable for...

Arc fault is one of the primary reasons that cause electrical fire. In power supply line, if arc fault occurs, the currents can not make protective equipments act, the arc fault can not be found easily, so electrical fire comes into being. Based on LabWindows/CVI, experimental studied the on-line arc fault detection system. AT89S51 Single Chip Microcomputer is used as lower computer, based on L...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t System failures, for example in electrical power systems, can have catastrophic impact on human life and high-cost missions. Due to an electrical fire in Swissair flight 111 on September 2, 1998, all 229 passengers and crew on board sadly lost their lives. A battery failure most likely took place on the Mars Global Surveyor, which unfortunately last communi...