• DocumentCode
    1420192
  • Title

    Pennsylvania railroad New York-Washington-Harrisburg electrification — Relay protection of power supply system

  • Author

    Harder, E. L.

  • Author_Institution
    Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • Volume
    58
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1939
  • fDate
    6/1/1939 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    266
  • Lastpage
    276
  • Abstract
    THE completion and placing into service of the Pennsylvania Railroad electrification marks the satisfactory conclusion of a relay design and application problem involving considerable pioneering work in this field. The protection problem is the provision of a system of protective relays, which in event of trouble, will automatically open circuit breakers to isolate the faulty section from the remainder of the power system. Outstanding features of the protective system are:
  • Keywords
    Circuit breakers; Circuit faults; Fault currents; Generators; Impedance; Relays; Substations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electrical Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0095-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/EE.1939.6431961
  • Filename
    6431961