Title :
Reducing Outage Durations Through Improved Protection and Autorestoration in Distribution Substations
Author :
Pickett, Bruce ; Sidhu, Tarlochan ; Anderson, Scott ; Apostolov, Alex ; Bentert, Bob ; Boers, Kirt ; Bolado, Oscar ; Carroll, Patrick ; Chano, Simon ; Chaudhary, Arvind ; Cobelo, Fernando ; Cooley, Ken ; Cooper, Marion ; Cornelison, Rick ; Elkin, Paul ; E
Author_Institution :
Power & Energy Soc. Power Syst. Relaying Comm., CA, USA
fDate :
7/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper addresses the subject of reducing outage durations and autorestoration applications within the distribution substation. Employment of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) can aid in the reduction of the fault duration time, and also it enhances the protection, control, and monitoring at the distribution level. Further, communication among these IEDs can provide faster autorestoration, remote data analysis, event recording, etc. Many recent issues related to distribution substation protection are discussed and techniques to address these issues using current technologies are proposed.
Keywords :
fault diagnosis; substation protection; IED; autorestoration application; distribution substation protection; fault duration time; improved protection; intelligent electronic device; outage duration reduction; remote data analysis; Circuit faults; Conductors; Fuses; Microprocessors; Relays; Substations; Switches; Autorestoration; distribution automation; distribution substation protection; intelligent electronic device (IED);
Journal_Title :
Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPWRD.2011.2114899
