Abstract:
Removal of a single line to ground fault by isolating only the faulted phase frequently leads to the creation of a secondary fault arc. Auto reclose protection schemes depend upon the absence of a secondary arc prior to reclosing. Consequently, there is great benefit from a technology to determine secondary arc extinction detection. The testing of SAED can be difficult and require the expense and complexity of staged system faults. A great deal of planning is necessary to do this however, and many fault scenarios cannot be fully studied. Accurate simulation of the phenomenon can alleviate many of these difficulties.
J. Giesbrecht, D. S. Ouellette and C. F. Henville, "Secondary Arc Extinction and Detection Real and Simulated," 2008 IET 9th International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection (DPSP 2008), Glasgow, 2008, pp. 138-143, doi: 10.1049/cp:20080025.
KEYWORDS: Single Pole Auto Reclose (SPAR), Secondary Arc Extinction Detection (SAED)