TY - GEN
T1 - Detection Method for Fire Incident due to Arc-Fault in Home Appliances
AU - Wangwiwattana, Sittichai
AU - Yoshikazu, Koike
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to Thank Tokyo Fire Department for providing samples from the scene of electrical fire incident.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The arc fault is well-known causes of electric fire incidents as well as electric treeing. In low voltage rating such as common home appliances, an arc-fault state can be achieved due to poor contact condition even if the contact is used within manufactured current rating. Therefore, a detection on such phenomenon is required to elevate electrical fire safety. We have researched the process of the arc fault in low voltage. Generally, the discharge on the tip of plug leads distortion of electrical waveform. One of the detection method for arc fault is to analyze the wave form in a plug. According to our research, the higher resistance of the contact area on the tip of plug due to oxide copper lead to high temperature area due to Joule's heating. In this presentation, we report how to detect series arc-fault in common household appliances. The derived method is to measure the energy consumption of the electrical appliance that has been affected with arc-fault. The power that was lost from arc-fault can be reliably measured at the load in the experiment. Therefore, a common commercial power-saving socket could be utilized for power measurement. Further development into the prototype phase is required to realize the new prevention method.
AB - The arc fault is well-known causes of electric fire incidents as well as electric treeing. In low voltage rating such as common home appliances, an arc-fault state can be achieved due to poor contact condition even if the contact is used within manufactured current rating. Therefore, a detection on such phenomenon is required to elevate electrical fire safety. We have researched the process of the arc fault in low voltage. Generally, the discharge on the tip of plug leads distortion of electrical waveform. One of the detection method for arc fault is to analyze the wave form in a plug. According to our research, the higher resistance of the contact area on the tip of plug due to oxide copper lead to high temperature area due to Joule's heating. In this presentation, we report how to detect series arc-fault in common household appliances. The derived method is to measure the energy consumption of the electrical appliance that has been affected with arc-fault. The power that was lost from arc-fault can be reliably measured at the load in the experiment. Therefore, a common commercial power-saving socket could be utilized for power measurement. Further development into the prototype phase is required to realize the new prevention method.
KW - arc fault
KW - copper oxides
KW - joule heating
KW - phase shift
KW - power dissipation
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U2 - 10.1109/ICCE53296.2022.9730397
DO - 10.1109/ICCE53296.2022.9730397
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85127031107
T3 - Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
BT - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2022
Y2 - 7 January 2022 through 9 January 2022
ER -