Apparatus and method for the measurement and monitoring of electrical power generation and transmission
OwnerSterling Lapinksi, John Carroll Hillinventors
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Abstract
An apparatus in accordance with the present invention allows for a determination of the amount and direction of electric power flowing over a particular high-voltage electric power transmission line without proximate access to said transmission line, and further allows for a determination of the amount of electric power being produced by any particular electric power generation plant connected to an electric power transmission grid.
Claims23
An apparatus for measuring electric potential and magnetic flux density associated with an electric power transmission line, comprising:
- a first sensor for outputting a voltage proportional to the net electric potential associated with said transmission line;
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- a second sensor responsive to a first vector component of the magnetic flux density associated with said transmission line and outputting a voltage proportional to the time rate of change of the net magnetic flux density generated by current flowing through said transmission line.
A method for monitoring the electric power transmission through one or more electric power transmission lines and communicating such electric power transmission information, comprising the steps of:
- (a) measuring the electric potential and at least one vector component of the magnetic flux density associated with each said transmission line to generate a data set;
- (b) transmitting each said data set to a central processing facility;
- (c) performing a computational analysis on each said data set to determine the amount of current and the direction of current flowing through each said transmission line, and then computing the power associated with each said transmission line;
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- (d) communicating said power transmission information to an end user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.