“…Researchers, recognizing the numerous merits of the adaptive autoreclosure, have proposed a number of adaptive autoreclosure schemes. These include schemes which measure and compare the voltage of the tripped phase to that of the energized phases to initiate or prevent autoreclosing (Faried et al, 1998;Aggarwal et al, 1993), schemes which make use of various components of faulted voltage such as total harmonic distortion, dc component and rms value to achieve successful autoreclosing (Park et al, 2004;Megahed et al, 2003;Kim et al, 2000;Ahn et al, 2001;Ahn et al, 2006) and schemes which employ high frequency current and voltage signals (Bo et al, 1997;Youyi et al;2001, Aggarwal et al;1997, Chen et al;. One significant demerit of the aforementioned schemes is that the many causes of faults and the interplay of several factors such as line configuration, fault position, fault point on wave, prefault loading, source parameters, and atmospheric conditions which influence the actual waveforms of the secondary arc voltage are likely to hinder their effectiveness (Aggarwal et al, 1994).…”