Hydro-Québec

About: Hydro-Québec is a government organization based out in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Electric power system & Dielectric. The organization has 2596 authors who have published 4433 publications receiving 100878 citations.

Intermittent arcing fault on underground low-voltage cables

Abstract: Arcing faults on 600/347-V underground cables can cause considerable damage, even explosions, despite the installed protection system. In fact, the protection sometimes appears to be quite slow to operate considering the prospective short circuit. Laboratory tests provided an opportunity to better characterize these arcing faults and prove that they can be intermittent. They can be quite random in nature, usually comprising periods of conduction lasting one half-cycle separated by periods of nonconduction lasting from a few cycles to several minutes. This type of fault can easily make fuse-type protection ineffective, as other tests proved. The fuse operating time can become even longer, to the extent that explosive gases will form.

Case study on the integration of a non-utility induction generator to the Hydro-Quebec distribution network

Abstract: This paper investigates the influence of different factors (such as load and capacitive compensation levels, load and turbine dynamic behaviors, machine parameters) on induction generator self-excitation phenomena and related overvoltages, resulting from a fault and/or an unwanted network disconnection. Simulations are performed on a 25 kV distribution network related to an actual project of integration of a nonutility induction generator to the Hydro-Quebec power system. The paper presents the analysis of the results, as well as the derived guidelines for the determination of new relay settings and integration criteria for the Hydro-Quebec distribution network. >

Electrolytic composition with polymer base for electrochemical generator

Abstract: The invention concerns an aprotic electrolytic composition located in the separator and in at least one composite electrode containing a powder of an active electrode material, and if necessary an electronic conduction additive of an electrochemical generator. The electrolytic composition comprises a first polymer matrix consisting of a polyether and at least a second polymer matrix, macroscopically separated, and also at least an alkaline salt as well as a polar aprotic solvent: The polymer matrices are capable of being swollen by at least one of the polar aprotic solvents. The solvent or mixture of solvents is unevenly distributed between the polymer matrices. The invention also concerns an electrochemical generator comprising a negative electrode and positive electrode reversible to alkaline ions and a separator with polymer electrolyte, the electrolytic component of which is the composition described above. The invention further concerns the manufacture in two or three steps of a sub-assembly of an electrochemical generator by coating an electrode support with a composite electrode containing the second matrix, followed by a surface coating on the electrode resulting from the preceding step with a solution containing the first polymer matrix so as to form the separator wholly or partly.