Surge Phenomena

Fall 2007

Schedule

Software

• PSpice (version 9.1) RLC Example 3PhaseSwitching Example
• PSpice (version 10.5)
• ATP EMPT (Requires a license, but it is free)
• PSCAD (Student Version)

Applets, Online Simulations

• Amanogawa (excellent, helpful tools) Signal Integrity for Pulses on Transmission Lines

Slides

• Restricted Access

Other Courses

• Power Systems Transients from Florida State
• Transients in Power Systems from the University of Idaho
• Electromagnetic Transients in Power Systems from Tennessee Tech
• Electrical Transients in Power Systems from Florida International
• Transient Analysis of Power Systems from Michigan Tech

Books

• Circuit Interruption: Theory and Techniques by Thomas E. Brown, from Google Books (limited preview)
• Power Circuit Breaker Theory and Design by C.H. Flurscheim, from Google Books (limited preview)

Tutorials

• Transient Recovery Voltage Tutorial from Alexander and Dufournet (IEEE) - This is an excellent supplement for the material from Greenwood's book.
• Procedures for Modeling System Transients by Juan A. Martinez, Jean Mahseredjian and Reigh A. Walling from the IEEE PES
• Other PES Techtorials: Power Quality,

Misc. Links

• All About Circuits
• Arcs and Sparks from Tesla Mania
• Transient Recovery Voltage Studies from Electrotek and other studies are found on their main webpage http://www.electrotek.com/index.htm
• Transient Recovery Voltage from Wikipedia
• SimPowerSystems from Mathworks
• ConEd Glossary Online Power Glossary (these are the same)
• Primary Side Transformer Protection by Peter Meyer
• IEEE PES Switchgear Committee - Check out the Technical Presentations - this is where the TRV Tutorial listed above is found.
• Spark Gaps from Wikipedia - note the discussion of protective devices and power switching devices. Note also that spark gaps are a key part of a Tesla coil device.
• Downloads from TUDelft on Matlab Arc Models, Demonstrations, Loadflow/state-estimator dynamic software (LV)
• Minnesota Power Electronics Research and Education - Course Materials from Ned Mohan
• Wikipedia on Transmission Lines
• Carbon Monitoring for Action
• Future Energy Networks Papers (1), (2) (3) From ETH

Experimental Information

• High Voltage Probes: Basics, Tektronix Probes
• Instructables -- instructions on how to do quite a variety of things (huge selection)
  • http://www.instructables.com/id/Blowing-up-stuff-with-capacitor-bank!/
  • http://www.instructables.com/id/Shake-it-like-a-Tic-Tac!/
• White LED Drive Circuits
• LED Driver Circuit Without Inductors

High Voltage Engineering

• Advances in High Voltage Engineering by Haddad and Warne (check p 311 for discussion of risk)
• High Voltage Engineering Fundamentals by Kuffel, Zaengl, and Kuffel (check pp 498-499 for discussion of risk)

Vocabulary

• Current Chopping or sometimes Chopping Current
• Proximity Losses
• Windage Losses

Surge Students (Fall 2007) Who Provided Information

• Joe Crispino (JC) Final Presentation
• Clark Fedor (TF) Final Presentation
• Jason Frasier (JF) Final Presentation
• Martin Rodgaard (MR) Final Presentation
• Luigi Vanfretti (LV) Final Presentation

Contact: connor at rpi dot edu