AFCIs - From a standards perspective

Lippert, Kevin J.; Domitrovich, Thomas A.

doi:10.1109/esw.2013.6509004

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“…The reason is that the shape of the input current under a series arc fault is similar to that of a normal nonlinear or light load condition. Several arc detection strategies, including the signal analysis and the hardware filtering techniques, have been proposed for commercial electric systems, photovoltaic converters, and AFCIs [3], [7]. However, series arc detection under low power conditions is still a big challenge.…”

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A Series Arc Fault Detection Strategy for Single-Phase Boost PFC Rectifiers

Cho¹,

Lim²,

Seo³

et al. 2015

Journal of Power Electronics

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This paper proposes a series arc fault detection algorithm which incorporates peak voltage and harmonic current detectors for single-phase boost power factor correction (PFC) rectifiers. The series arc fault model is also proposed to analyze the phenomenon of the arc fault and detection algorithm. For arc detection, the virtual dq transformation is utilized to detect the peak input voltage. In addition, multiple combinations of low-and high-pass filters are applied to extract the specific harmonic components which show the characteristics of the series arc fault conditions. The proposed model and the arc detection method are experimentally verified through a boost PFC rectifier prototype operating under the grid-tied condition with an artificial arc generator manufactured under the guidelines for the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 1699 standard.

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confidence: 99%