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Assessment of the Lightning Performance of overhead distribution lines based on Lightning Location Systems data

This article presents the Lightning Performance (LP) assessment of a realistic portion of the Italian distribution network with the use of probability distributions for lightning parameters inferred from local data recorded by a Lightning Location System ( ...

2022

Estimation of the expected annual number of flashovers in power distribution lines due to negative and positive lightning

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Carlo Alberto Nucci

The paper deals with the estimation of the expected annual number of flashovers in overhead power distribution lines due to indirect lightning strokes and aims at extending a procedure previously proposed by the authors, limited to negative downward events ...

Elsevier2019

On the Influence of an Elevated Terrain on the Grounding Resistance of a Vertical Rod

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

In this paper, we analyze the grounding resistance of a vertical grounding rod located in an elevated terrain. Tall structures such as wind turbines and mobile phone base stations are often installed in remote and hilly locations to gain more power or to f ...

2019

On the Influence of an Elevated Terrain on the Grounding Resistance of a Vertical Rod

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

IEEE2019

Stability Analysis of Primary Plug-and-Play and Secondary Leader-Based Controllers for DC Microgrid Clusters

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Michele Tucci

In this paper, we propose a new hierarchical control scheme for microgrid (MG) clusters, given by the interconnection of atomic dc MGs with ZIP loads, each composed by both grid-forming and grid-feeding converters. In the primary level, we develop a new Pl ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Modeling of EMP Coupling to Lossless MTLs in Time Domain Based on Analytical Gauss-Seidel Iteration Technique

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Jun Guo

This paper provides an efficient way to simulate the transient electromagnetic field coupling to overhead multi conductor transmission lines in time domain based on an analytical iterative technique. The method is entirely in time domain and therefore can ...

2018

A Full-Scale Experimental Validation of Electromagnetic Time Reversal Applied to Locate Disturbances in Overhead Power Distribution Lines

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mario Paolone, Reza Razzaghi, Zhaoyang Wang

Electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) has emerged as a promising technique to locate disturbances in power grids, thanks to its location accuracy and robustness against parameters uncertainties. Furthermore, in a reflective medium, like the one of a power n ...

2018

Load Flow in Multiphase Distribution Networks: Existence, Uniqueness, Non-Singularity and Linear Models

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Andrey Bernstein, Cong Wang

This paper considers unbalanced multiphase distribution systems with generic topology and different load models, and extends the Z-bus iterative load-flow algorithm based on a fixed-point interpretation of the AC load-flow equations. Explicit conditions fo ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Effect of Dispersive Soil on the Electromagnetic Response of Buried Wires in the UHF Range

In this paper, we analyze the effect of the soil on the induced current in a buried wire excited by an external field in the ultrahigh frequency range. We use an extended version of the Messier model, which provides the electromagnetic (EM) properties of d ...

2018

Evaluation of Power System Lightning Performance—Part II: Application to an Overhead Distribution Network

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

The paper aims at defining a methodology to evaluate the lightning performance of a system of overhead distribution lines. As is well known, the evaluation of the lightning performance relies generally on a Monte Carlo approach that generates many differen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Controlling the Electrical State via Uncertain Power Injections in Three-Phase Distribution Networks

Mario Paolone, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Cong Wang

We consider the problem of controlling the electrical state of a three-phase distribution network by enforcing the explicit power injection. More precisely, we assume that the power injection is constrained to reside in some uncertainty set, and the proble ...

2017

Pre-sheath density drop induced by ion-neutral friction along plasma blobs and implications for blob velocities

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

The pre-sheath density drop along the magnetic field in field-aligned, radially propagating plasma blobs is investigated in the TORPEX toroidal experiment [Fasoli et al., Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 52, 124020 (2010)]. Using Langmuir probes precisely al ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

On the Validity of Approximate Formulas for the Evaluation of the Lightning Electromagnetic Fields in the Presence of a Lossy Ground

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

The accuracy of approximate formulas for the evaluation of lightning electromagnetic fields above and inside a lossy ground is investigated taking as reference full-wave numerical results obtained using a parallel implementation of the finite-difference ti ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Application of the Matrix Pencil Method to Rational Fitting of Frequency-Domain Responses

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Mario Paolone, Hamidreza Karami, Keyhan Sheshyekani

This paper presents a general methodology based on the matrix pencil method (MPM) for the fitting of frequency-domain responses in order to be properly represented in time-domain analysis. By virtue of the proposed method, a rational fitting of the frequen ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012

Contribution to the Active Generator Principle : the Gate-commutated Polyphased Matrix Converter

Antoine Béguin

This work is part of the innovative "Active Generator" (AG) project. AG is a concept that suggests a new arrangement of the turbine-generator line of a high power utility (a few hundred of MW) in order to de-synchronize the rotation speed of the turbine-ge ...

EPFL2012

Deaging and Asymmetric Energy Landscapes in Electrically Biased Ferroelectrics

Dragan Damjanovic

In ferroic materials, the dielectric, piezoelectric, magnetic, and elastic coefficients are significantly affected by the motion of domain walls. This motion can be described as the propagation of a wall across various types and strengths of pinning center ...

American Physical Society2012

IEEE Guide for Improving the Lightning Performance of Electric Power Overhead Distribution Lines

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Mario Paolone, Carlo Alberto Nucci

Factors that contribute to lightning-caused faults on the line insulation of overhead distribution lines and suggested improvements to existing and new constructions are identified in this guide. ...

IEEE2011

Transport properties of nonhomogeneous segregated composites

Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Biagio Nigro, Gianluca Ambrosetti

In conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are dispersed in an insulating continuous matrix the electrical connectedness is established by interparticle quantum tunneling. A recent formulation of the transport problem in these kind ...

2011

A complete graph effective medium approximation for lattice and continuum percolation

Claudio Grimaldi

In this paper we introduce an effective medium theory that is capable of describing site percolation in both lattice and continuum three-dimensional systems. By exploiting self-consistency with a complete graph or network of identical conductors, the resul ...

2011

Percolation-to-hopping crossover in conductor-insulator composites

Claudio Grimaldi, Gianluca Ambrosetti

Here, we show that the conductivity of conductor-insulator composites in which electrons can tunnel from each conducting particle to all others may display both percolation and tunneling (i.e., hopping) regimes depending on few characteristics of the compo ...

2010