Ignition Characteristics of Residential Series Arc Faults in 220-V HIV Wires

Moon, Won-Sik; Kim, Jae-Chul; Jo, Ara; Bang, Sun-Bae; Koh, Won-Sik

doi:10.1109/tia.2014.2382756

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“…Another power supply interruption method, by converting a short-circuit fault into a line-to-ground fault, was also proposed [17]. Additionally, detecting ultraviolet light, which is emitted by discharge during short circuit, was mentioned as an effective technique [18], whereas another proposed method focused on the distortion of voltage waveform during short circuit [4].…”

Section: Number Of Fires Percentage (%)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Arc Discharge–Induced Ignition of Combustibles Placed on a Damaged AC Power Supply Cord

et al. 2020

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One of the major causes of unintentional electrical fires is short circuit of an electrically and/or mechanically damaged alternating power supply cord. Detecting of such an event and interrupting the power supply may be beyond the capability of a conventional electro-mechanical circuit breaker. A lot of research papers have been published related to arc fault of wiring and its detection method. Furthermore, arc fault circuit interrupters have been put into practical use. The objective of the present paper is to understand fault of damaged power supply cord under two selected situations observed in practical use or considered suitable to understand fire ignition. Using two kinds of samples similar to but different from samples prescribed in UL1699 standard, the ignition mechanism of combustibles is discussed based on the results of laboratory experiments. The findings herein underscore the important role of the arc in the ignition of combustibles that are placed on the damaged part of a power supply cord, which is normally followed by a short circuit of broken element conductors or breakage of intact element conductors. Moreover, a possible arc detection feature in the two situations is discussed based on a distorted voltage waveform.

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Section: Number Of Fires Percentage (%)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Arc Discharge–Induced Ignition of Combustibles Placed on a Damaged AC Power Supply Cord

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“…However, the heat released from arc reaches a temperature up to 13 000 K and the energy is sufficient to cause ignition of the combustible material. Arc may cause fire by the means of the formation of a carbonized path between electrodes or the point contact of electrodes [12,13]. Aiming to prevent electrical fires, there have been many studies about arc detection, most of which are conventionally based on the current and voltage methods and fail to sense the masked arc [10,14,15].…”

Section: Detection Of Series Arc Faultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detection and analysis of series arc using non-conventional methods in low-voltage switchboards

Wang

Kim

et al. 2018

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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Detection and analysis of series arc in low-voltage switchboards have significant meaning for preventing the electrical fires. However, the conventional current and voltage methods have low a sensitivity to sense the minute arc discharge, leading to the fail operation of arc fault circuit interrupter. Therefore, this paper dealt with the application of non-conventional methods, including the ultra-violet (UV), acoustic emission (AE), and transient earth voltage (TEV) sensor in arc detection, for the purpose of improving the detection sensitivity and reducing the potential electric fires. Three types of typical arc faults in low-voltage switchboards were simulated and the actual detection environment was configured. From the results, the wavelength of UV light emitted from arc was 200–400 nm and the arc-induced AE signal had a frequency range of 40–600 kHz. The TEV signals generated from three types of arc faults presented different frequency spectrums, based on which the time-frequency map was used to classify the fault type.

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“…However, correct detection and identification of SAFs remain to be challenging [2]. The reasons can be listed as follows.…”

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A Coupling Method for Identifying Arc Faults Based on Short-Observation-Window SVDR

Jiang

Bao

Hong

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.

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This paper presents a new method for effective detection of AC series arc fault (SAF) and extraction of SAF characteristics in residential buildings, which addresses the challenges with conventional current detection methods in discriminating arcing and non-arcing current due to their similarity. Different from the traditional method, in the proposed method, the differential magnetic flux is coupled to obtain high-frequency signals by putting the live line and the neutral line through the current transformer, which can effectively solve the problem of SAF features disappearing in the trunk-line current. However, similar to the traditional method, the effectiveness of the proposed coupling method could also be compromised when being used in cases with dimmer load and load starting process. This is found to be caused by the presence of high-amplitude pulse phenomenon in the non-arcing signals in these scenarios, which are incorrectly detected as arcing signals in other loads. To address this issue, a short-observation-window singular value decomposition and reconstruction algorithm (SOW-SVDR) is used to enhance the capability to identify SAFs by the coupling method. The proposed method has been implemented and validated according to UL1699 standard with different types of loads connected to the system and also tested under their starting processes. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is more effective in detecting arc faults compared with existing methods.

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Ignition Characteristics of Residential Series Arc Faults in 220-V HIV Wires

Cited by 39 publications

References 8 publications

Arc Discharge–Induced Ignition of Combustibles Placed on a Damaged AC Power Supply Cord

Arc Discharge–Induced Ignition of Combustibles Placed on a Damaged AC Power Supply Cord

Detection and analysis of series arc using non-conventional methods in low-voltage switchboards

A Coupling Method for Identifying Arc Faults Based on Short-Observation-Window SVDR

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