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This project is developing and demonstrating automated approaches for identifying and locating problems that are a major part of the reliability equation – fault location, fault analysis, and fault anticipation.

The project objectives are focused on two areas:

• Approaches for existing monitoring systems. There is a significant investment in monitoring of distribution systems. This includes power quality monitoring systems, digital fault recorders, intelligent relays, other IEDs, and high end meters. The project will develop a disturbance library that will help with development of intelligent algorithms that can work with these existing systems to identify, locate, and evaluate faults on distribution systems.
   
  
• New monitoring technologies (Distribution Fault Anticipator). There has already been a significant investment in DFA technology by EPRI and participating utilities. This project takes advantage of that investment and is focused on developing and demonstrating improved commercial designs of the technology.

The scope of this project is to collect, organize, and present the results of harmonic measurements from around the world. The results will be analyzed in order to develop impact factors which will be incorporated in to the network impact factor model. The measurements will evaluated with respect to theoretical models being used to develop harmonic limits.

http://www.expertmonitoring.com/iec_sc77a/

For more information contact Mark McGranaghan, 865-218-8029, mmcgranaghan@epri.com