Automated fuse identification within an operational smart power grid

Aaron J. Wilson, Donald R. Reising, Robert W. Hay, Ray C. Johnson

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Abstract

During normal operation for power utilities an average of 2,100 events are recorded each month. Currently, utility personnel employ an archaic by-hand approach in the analysis of these events. This limits the analysis to roughly 2% of the total recorded events. This work applies pattern recognition and machine learning to perform automated identification of faults cleared by fuses. A critical step in the automation is the accurate detection of the waveform samples associated with the fault itself. Poor detection of these samples negatively impacts the identification performance. This work investigated three detection methods: Variance trajectory, binary vectors, and the analytic signal. A naïve Bayes classifier was employed to identify seven fuse sizes using let-through energy. Naïve Bayes identification performance of 94.3%, 93.6%, and 94.7% was achieved for the variance trajectory, binary vectors, and analytic signal detection approaches, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2018
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages719-723
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538656860
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 6 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event10th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2018 - Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Duration: Oct 7 2018Oct 10 2018

Publication series

NameAsia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC
Volume2018-October
ISSN (Print)2157-4839
ISSN (Electronic)2157-4847

Conference

Conference10th IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2018
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKota Kinabalu
Period10/7/1810/10/18

Funding

This work is supported by funding through the Electric Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) Distribution Modernization Demonstration (DMD) Data Mining Initiative.

FundersFunder number
Electric Power Research Institute

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