Capacity Enhancement for Aging Distribution Systems using Single Wire Earth Return

Single wire earth return systems, (SWER), are the low cost technology for rural power distribution and have global application. In the Australian setting, voltage regulation is becoming the determining factor for older SWER systems. In long systems, directly connected shunt reactors are used to comp...

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Main Authors: Wolfs, Peter, Hosseinzadeh, N., Senini, S.
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Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21908
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Senini, S.
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description Single wire earth return systems, (SWER), are the low cost technology for rural power distribution and have global application. In the Australian setting, voltage regulation is becoming the determining factor for older SWER systems. In long systems, directly connected shunt reactors are used to compensate the effects of line to ground capacitance. The replacement of fixed shunt reactors with controllable reactors provides an opportunity to approximately double the capacity of an aging infrastructure. Three case studies based on the North Jericho system are presented and a range of practical implementation issues are discussed.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-219082017-10-02T02:26:57Z Capacity Enhancement for Aging Distribution Systems using Single Wire Earth Return Wolfs, Peter Hosseinzadeh, N. Senini, S. Unknown reactors (electric) voltage control earthing distribution networks power distribution control Single wire earth return systems, (SWER), are the low cost technology for rural power distribution and have global application. In the Australian setting, voltage regulation is becoming the determining factor for older SWER systems. In long systems, directly connected shunt reactors are used to compensate the effects of line to ground capacitance. The replacement of fixed shunt reactors with controllable reactors provides an opportunity to approximately double the capacity of an aging infrastructure. Three case studies based on the North Jericho system are presented and a range of practical implementation issues are discussed. 2007 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21908 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle reactors (electric)
voltage control
earthing
distribution networks
power distribution control
Wolfs, Peter
Hosseinzadeh, N.
Senini, S.
Capacity Enhancement for Aging Distribution Systems using Single Wire Earth Return
title Capacity Enhancement for Aging Distribution Systems using Single Wire Earth Return
title_full Capacity Enhancement for Aging Distribution Systems using Single Wire Earth Return
title_fullStr Capacity Enhancement for Aging Distribution Systems using Single Wire Earth Return
title_full_unstemmed Capacity Enhancement for Aging Distribution Systems using Single Wire Earth Return
title_short Capacity Enhancement for Aging Distribution Systems using Single Wire Earth Return
title_sort capacity enhancement for aging distribution systems using single wire earth return
topic reactors (electric)
voltage control
earthing
distribution networks
power distribution control
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21908