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    Delta Wye Transformer HV line current analysis for LV faults

    I tried to study your networks, but it is difficult without the parameters (voltages, impedances).
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    designing a power system simulator

    It is certainly an interesting exercise to write a program for load flow and short circuit calculations. But is is worth of the effort? It may be, if the program shall have some special properties that are not available in existing programs. But it might take a long time to write such a program...
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    Modelling SWER (Single Wire Earth Return) - Single Phase Conductor

    You can model a single wire in an three-phase network with the help of a double open-line fault (phases b and c open, or broken, for example), see the attached picture. In practice, this is very much the same as a single-line-to-earth...
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    Fault Contribution from Radially Fed Distribution Transformers

    A similar problem is discussed in thread238-376120
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    Student Intro to Electric Power Engineering - Links?

    If you are interested in calculating voltages and currents in three-phase networks, you might have look at a program called elplek, see http://pp.kpnet.fi/ijl . Elplek is a simple, freeware load flow and short circuit program, that is easy to use (in my opinion:). The program can also do simple...
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    Difference in power factor in sending end and receiveing end

    The parameters of the line and load have not given by the OP. I have tried to guess the parameters, as Load: 111 MVA, pf 0.92 Line: 100 km, modeled in 10 sections. X = 0.44 Ohm/km, R = 0.09 Ohm/km, B = 7.7e-5/Ohm km (realistic, or typical ? ) With these parameters the pf = 0.84 at the source...
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    Help needed to amplify piezoelectric power

    See thread797-339131
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    # phase power LL vs LN

    As waross wrote, either use phase-phase or phase-neutral variables, but not a mixture. The complex power in an impedance is equal to: voltage over the impedance multiplied by the conjugate of the current through the impedance. Your equation for the power using phase-phase voltage is not...
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    Calculating Subtransient Sequence Reactances

    As davidbeach observed, there is not such a thing as a negative or zero sequence subtransient reactance (let's call them X2" and X0"). The d-axis subtransient reactance X"d is used to calculate the initial short circuit current for a 3-phase fault. Similarly, the initial sequence currents for...
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    ETAP: Star-Delta increases the phase-earth fault level upstream.

    I think the explanation is in the circulating current of the delta-windings, see the attached single phase diagram. The fault current returns from earth to the neutral point of the Y-windings of the transformer, and splits there in three equal components in the a-,b-,and c-windings. The a,b,c-...
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    Short Circuit current study software

    See elplek at http://pp.kpnet.fi/ijl/ It is free.
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    2 phase to ground fault current splits I_0

    The first picture, with Z = 0.1 Ohm. The second one is included in the main message.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=385d1333-f9be-4eea-9f43-4948b028bc79&file=LLE-0.1.jpg
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    2 phase to ground fault current splits I_0

    A short circuit calculation typically gives only the phase currents in the case of a LLE-fault. The current to earth must be calculated separately from the current balance. Consider an example: V = 1000V, Z1 = Z2 = Z0 = 0.1 Ohm (first picture). The A- and B-phase currents and the current to...
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    Forward and negative fault.

    Directional overcurrent relay, maybe http://www.ece.uidaho.edu/ee/power/ECE525/hws/lab2/Directional_OC_Chapter-5_AMPS.pdf
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    LiPo batteries

    Try primary litium cells with a nominal voltage of 1.5V. The voltage is in practice about 1.7V.
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