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
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