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Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems

Power system disturbances have been present since the inception of the electric utility industry. However, yesterday's loads are more forgiving of disturbances than today's modern equipment. The proliferation of sensitive electronic equipments such as PCs, variable speed drives and industr...

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Main Authors: Shareef, H., Mohamed, A., Abdul Khalid, Saifulnizam, Mustafa, Mohd. Wazir
Format: Book Section
Published: IEEE Explorer 2011
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TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29173/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INECCE.2011.5953907
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spelling my.utm.291732017-02-05T00:01:58Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29173/ Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems Shareef, H. Mohamed, A. Abdul Khalid, Saifulnizam Mustafa, Mohd. Wazir TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Power system disturbances have been present since the inception of the electric utility industry. However, yesterday's loads are more forgiving of disturbances than today's modern equipment. The proliferation of sensitive electronic equipments such as PCs, variable speed drives and industrial programmable controllers has made us more aware of power system disturbances, which went unnoticed in the past. In the normal operation of power systems, unavoidable disturbances may happen due to switching actions, faults and lightning overvoltage surges. Overvoltage surges are damaging in nature and result in more frustrations and even fire in rare cases. This research aims to investigate the impact of overvoltage surges due to various types of lightning on a low voltage system. It is done through simulation conducted under various scenarios. Then based on the simulation results and parametric evaluation, the impacts of different system parameters are finally summarized. IEEE Explorer 2011 Book Section PeerReviewed Shareef, H. and Mohamed, A. and Abdul Khalid, Saifulnizam and Mustafa, Mohd. Wazir (2011) Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems. In: InECCE 2011 - International Conference on Electrical, Control and Computer Engineering. IEEE Explorer, pp. 361-366. ISBN 978-161284228-8 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INECCE.2011.5953907 10.1109/INECCE.2011.5953907
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Shareef, H.
Mohamed, A.
Abdul Khalid, Saifulnizam
Mustafa, Mohd. Wazir
Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems
description Power system disturbances have been present since the inception of the electric utility industry. However, yesterday's loads are more forgiving of disturbances than today's modern equipment. The proliferation of sensitive electronic equipments such as PCs, variable speed drives and industrial programmable controllers has made us more aware of power system disturbances, which went unnoticed in the past. In the normal operation of power systems, unavoidable disturbances may happen due to switching actions, faults and lightning overvoltage surges. Overvoltage surges are damaging in nature and result in more frustrations and even fire in rare cases. This research aims to investigate the impact of overvoltage surges due to various types of lightning on a low voltage system. It is done through simulation conducted under various scenarios. Then based on the simulation results and parametric evaluation, the impacts of different system parameters are finally summarized.
format Book Section
author Shareef, H.
Mohamed, A.
Abdul Khalid, Saifulnizam
Mustafa, Mohd. Wazir
author_facet Shareef, H.
Mohamed, A.
Abdul Khalid, Saifulnizam
Mustafa, Mohd. Wazir
author_sort Shareef, H.
title Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems
title_short Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems
title_full Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems
title_fullStr Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems
title_full_unstemmed Impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems
title_sort impact of system parameters on the penetration of lightning surges into low voltage systems
publisher IEEE Explorer
publishDate 2011
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29173/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INECCE.2011.5953907
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