Power distribution system faults and wildfires: Mechanisms and prevention

S Bandara, P Rajeev, E Gad - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wildfires are one of the most hazardous natural disasters in Australia in terms of fatalities,
property damage and financial losses. Events of catastrophic wildfires are recorded across …

Robust backstep** global integral terminal sliding mode controller to enhance dynamic stability of hybrid AC/DC microgrids

TK Roy, SK Ghosh, S Saha - Protection and Control of Modern Power …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, a Backstep** Global Integral Terminal Sliding Mode Controller (BGITSMC)
with the view to enhancing the dynamic stability of a hybrid AC/DC microgrid has been …

A comprehensive review of control techniques for compensating the fault current in resonant grounded distribution networks: From the perspective of mitigating …

WSP Fernando, MA Mahmud, SN Islam… - IET generation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Powerline faults are responsible for major bushfires around the world where arcs provoked
from ground faults are common causes for igniting such fires. The grounding techniques …

Fault current compensations in resonant grounded distribution systems to mitigate powerline bushfires using a nonsingular terminal sliding model controller

TK Roy, MA Mahmud - IET Generation, Transmission & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A fault current compensation technique is proposed in this paper for resonant grounded
power distribution systems in bushfire prone areas. Arc suppression devices with residual …

A linear hybrid active disturbance rejection controller design to extenuate powerline bushfires in resonant grounded distribution power systems

M Barzegar-Kalashani, MA Mahmud - … Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a robust linear hybrid controller by combining the active disturbance
rejection and proportional–integral controllers (ADRC+ PI) for inverter-based arc …

A nonlinear model predictive controller design for residual current compensation inverters in rapid earth fault current limiters to mitigate powerline bushfires

WSP Fernando, MA Mahmud, SN Islam… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a nonlinear model predictive control scheme for residual current
compensation inverters in rapid earth fault current limiters to inject appropriate current to the …

[HTML][HTML] Designing robust hybrid controllers for enhancing output voltage regulation in CPL feed boost converters through backstep** and nonsingular fast terminal …

DA Palash, Z Alam, TK Roy, AMT Oo - e-Prime-Advances in Electrical …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel and robust hybrid controller that combines the backstep**
controller with the nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode controller (NFTSMC) for DC-DC …

A discrete sliding mode control scheme for arc suppression devices in resonant grounded power distribution systems to mitigate powerline bushfires

M Barzegar-Kalashani, MA Mahmud, MA Barik… - Electric Power Systems …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a discrete sliding mode control scheme is developed for the residual current
compensator (RCC) inverter in a arc suppression coil (ASC) which is used for eliminating …

Motivating the use of dynamic line ratings to mitigate the risk of wildfire ignition

S Tandon, S Grijalva… - 2021 IEEE Power and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasingly severe wildfires pose significant dangers to ecological, social, and economic
systems. To curtail the risk of igniting wildfires, California utilities employ the Public Safety …