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High Impedance Faults: From Field Tests to Modeling

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High impedance faults (HIFs) are serious and troubling disturbances on power distribution systems because the main power system protection devices are usually not able to diagnose them accurately due to the low fault current levels. This paper presents the detailing of field experiments and modeling of HIF. A literature review of models of HIF was made and it was proposed to use a model known in the literature with some adjustments. With the model, based on actual records obtained at different contact surfaces, it was possible to obtain a set of simulated records representing the most important features found in most of the HIF.

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The authors thank the Coordination of Perfecting Higher Level Personnel [Coordenação of Aperfeiçoamento of Pessoal of Level Superior (CAPES)] for the concession of scholarships for study and the Energisa Group (Grupo Energisa), for technical and financial support.

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  1. Post-Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering - PPgEE - COPELE, Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Aprígio Veloso Street, 882, Universitário, Campina Grande, Paraíba, CEP 58.429-900, Brazil

    Wellinsílvio Costa dos Santos

  2. Electrical Engineering Department (DEE), Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Aprígio Veloso Street, 882, Universitário, Campina Grande, Paraíba, CEP 58.429-900, Brazil

    Benemar Alencar de Souza & Núbia Silva Dantas Brito

  3. Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Campus Universitário Lagoa Nova, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, CEP 59.078-970, Brazil

    Flávio Bezerra Costa

  4. Energisa Paraíba, BR 230, km 25, Cristo Redentor, João Pessoa, Paraíba, CEP 58.071-680, Brazil

    Marcelo Renato Cerqueira Paes Jr

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dos Santos, W.C., de Souza, B.A., Brito, N.S.D. et al. High Impedance Faults: From Field Tests to Modeling. J Control Autom Electr Syst 24, 885–896 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40313-013-0072-8

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