In electrical power systems all the wiring exposed to mechanical damages and other insulation stresses, such as flexible cords, can be involved in overheating, arcing and burning. Mechanical damages of the stranded bare conductors can degrade locally the effective sizing of the cross section and cause anomalous local conditions. The circuit protective devices can be unfit to detect the faults of cords that remain so energized and available to electric shock and fire hazards. Some fire ignitions result from these types of special unprotected faults. To highlight the local incident energy in case of fault, the paper introduces the parameters steady current and transient current densities that assist to analyze these fault events. An efficient protection can be achieved by integration of active and passive techniques : adopting Arc-fault Circuit Interrupters (AFCI) or Detection Devices (AFDD), recognizing arcing faults; wiring the circuits with a grounding protection conductor to involve

Unprotected Faults of Electrical Cords and Extension Cords in AC and DC Systems / Parise, Giuseppe; Parise, Luigi. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 0093-9994. - STAMPA. - 50:1(2014), pp. 4-9. [10.1109/TIA.2013.2271605]

Unprotected Faults of Electrical Cords and Extension Cords in AC and DC Systems

PARISE, Giuseppe;PARISE, LUIGI
2014

Abstract

In electrical power systems all the wiring exposed to mechanical damages and other insulation stresses, such as flexible cords, can be involved in overheating, arcing and burning. Mechanical damages of the stranded bare conductors can degrade locally the effective sizing of the cross section and cause anomalous local conditions. The circuit protective devices can be unfit to detect the faults of cords that remain so energized and available to electric shock and fire hazards. Some fire ignitions result from these types of special unprotected faults. To highlight the local incident energy in case of fault, the paper introduces the parameters steady current and transient current densities that assist to analyze these fault events. An efficient protection can be achieved by integration of active and passive techniques : adopting Arc-fault Circuit Interrupters (AFCI) or Detection Devices (AFDD), recognizing arcing faults; wiring the circuits with a grounding protection conductor to involve
2014
Arcing faults; circuit protection; fire ignition hazard; anomalous overheating; arcing and burning
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Unprotected Faults of Electrical Cords and Extension Cords in AC and DC Systems / Parise, Giuseppe; Parise, Luigi. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 0093-9994. - STAMPA. - 50:1(2014), pp. 4-9. [10.1109/TIA.2013.2271605]
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