Title
Preventing electrical hazards under grounding-fault condition by means of surface leakage protection
Abstract
Appliance grounding, cooperating with over-current protection device, can prevent the appliance user from electric shock. But in the real world the appliance sometimes is not well-grounded. This paper proposes an innovative technology of "surface leakage protection" (SLP) which can be a good substitute of appliance grounding for electrical safety purpose. A SLP device detects electrical leakage at the surface of an appliance and removes the power supply immediately from appliance in case the leakage occurs, no appliance grounding is required. The principle of SLP is discussed, and the schematic diagram of the SLP is given with embodiment. The neutral line identification of SLP is also discussed to ensure a reliable SLP performance. The study and application embodiment indicate the SLP can effectively protect appliance user from electric shock in case of grounding-fault, and the building cost of a SLP device is similar to a Residual Current Device (RCD), easy to be widely employed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/IECON.2015.7392099
IECON 2015 - 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Keywords
Field
DocType
Electrocution,Electric shock,Grounding,Leakage currents,RCD,Surface Leakage Protection,SLP,Safety,Power distribution protection
Electric shock,Leakage (electronics),Schematic,Ground,Engineering,Residual-current device,Electrical engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1553-572X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
W. Wu110527.20
Yuejia Wu200.68