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http://dx.doi.org/10.5207/JIEIE.2014.28.12.030

Series Arcing Fault Detection Method Using Harmonics Analysis of Supply Current  

Ahn, Jeongwoon (Korea University of Technology and Education)
Oh, Yong-Taek (Korea University of Technology and Education)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers / v.28, no.12, 2014 , pp. 30-37 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, Concerns of imbalance for power supply has been raised by the increase of electric power consumption, but the interest of electric safety is still lacking due to the incompleteness of regulations. Particularly, Arcing fault, direct cause of electric fire accidents, is difficult to detect, interrupt due to unformal signal behaviour in previous research and apply to real system. In this paper, Arcing fault simulator device was fabricated to investigate the characteristics of series arcing fault and simulated the faults in various real load. Also, this study are analysed arcing fault signal by using the harmonic analysis of the acquired data from the current of the power supply and proposed the methods to prevent the series arcing fault accidents in advance.
Keywords
Series Arcing Fault; FFT; Harmonic Analysis; Electric Fire;
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