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subject with utility speakers making presentations. Consultant
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plication to operating plants, including papers which will ad¬ The program chairman is Jay Forster, and you are invited to
dress current solutions to meet NRC requirements. Tentative submit technical papers related to the foregoing, including
plans are being made for a plenary session speaker from title and brief abstract. Also, any additional information con¬
Electric Power Research Institute. cerning the SNPS program may be obtained from J. Forster
The opening SNPS session will present a complete update of at the following address:
nuclear standards work in progress and will include a special Quadrex Corporation
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Power Engineering Society which will review the major 1986 Campbell, CA 95008
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Paper: "Suppression of Ground-Fault Arcs on Single-Pole-Switched ZFB\[B'0 (1 F)B\\

EHV Lines bv Shunt Reactors" B. =

B\ B'Q
Author: E. W. Kimbark
Published: 1) Power Apparatus and Systems, March 1964 1 (1 F) (17)
B'o
2) IEEE Press in 1980 under collection of papers entitled
"Protective Relaying for Power Systems" B0) (S, B0)\
V,= EUB\
(2S; + B'0) (2S, + B0)
(20)

V,= E{B\ B'p) (21)

Discussion: 3B0 (2B\ + B'0)
write with respect to the paper "Suppression of Ground-Fault Arcs
on Single-Pole-Switched EHV Lines by Shunt Reactors," written by
E W Kimbark and originally published in PAS-83 in March 1964
Vf= -E 2B\ 4 Bp) BA)
_£n_ B'JB\
(2 4 B'0IB\ )
(22)
The paper was subsequently repubhshed by the IEEE Press in 1980
in the collection of papers entitled "Protective Relaying for Power Yu 35, (27)
Systems Unfortunately, there are several serious errors in the for¬
" V0 3ß, + Bn
mulae presented in this otherwise excellent paper May acknowledge the asssistance of the IEEE Technical Committee
on Power System Relaying, who, while reviewing my originally sub¬
With the growing use of long e h v transmission lines, interest in
the subject matter of the paper is increasing This fact, the author's mitted corrections, added the above Equation (22)
high reputation, and the 1980 republication, combine to make it likely J. M Lucas B.Sc. (Eng.), C.Eng., MIEE
that the erroneous formulae will be applied by many engineers in the
design of e h.v. systems therefore present the following correc¬ Principal Engineer
tions in the hope of limiting the risk of design error for Ewbank Preece Power and Water Ltd.
With respect to the numbering used in this paper, the formulae incorporating APPROVED:
errors should be as follows: Donald R. Volzka, Chairman
Power System Relaying Committee
V0=j X'ol'o =jX\l'o +jX'.3li (1) August 1, 1985

The International Conference on Large High Voltage Electric The Meetings will be held at the ASSAS University, 92 Rue
Systems will be held in Paris, France from August 27 to Sep¬ de Assas, Paris 6th, France. The ASSAS University is situ¬
tember 4, 1986. ated on the Left Bank of the Seine not far from the Montpar¬
nasse area and the Luxemburg Gardens.
The Opening Ceremony of the 1986 Session will take place
on Wednesday, August 27 at 3:00 PM. There will be 1 5 discussion meetings, corresponding to the
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