Patents by Inventor Tarlochan Sidhu

Tarlochan Sidhu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10162015
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining a fault location in a three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system by using symmetrical components-based formulas that describe various voltage and current relationships. The voltage and current relationships can be derived using a synchronous measurement procedure that is concurrently executed at a sending end and a receiving end of the first series-compensated power transmission line system. Furthermore, determining the fault location in accordance with certain embodiments of the disclosure can eliminate one or more of a need to calculate an impedance value of any of the series capacitors or the series capacitor protection elements that are a part of the three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system, a need to monitor any of the series capacitor protection elements, and a need to measure a voltage drop across any of the series capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zhihan Xu, Tirath Bains, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Patent number: 10088516
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to detecting turn-to-turn faults in one or more windings of various objects. In one implementation, a fault detector uses a differential protection algorithm to detect a turn-to-turn fault in a winding of a three-phase shunt reactor. Various voltage and current measurements carried out upon the three-phase shunt reactor are used to calculate a difference value between a voltage-based parameter and a current-based parameter. The voltage-based parameter is indicative of a normalized negative voltage imbalance and the current-based parameter is indicative of a normalized negative current imbalance. A turn-to-turn winding fault is declared when the difference value is not equal to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zhiying Zhang, Sarasij Das, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Patent number: 9800088
    Abstract: An electronic device configured to switchover power from a primary source to an alternate source to maintain continuity of power supplied to a load bus. The electronic device includes one or more processors configured to identify availability of the alternate source using source monitoring in order to measure and calculate a tracking frequency for controlling a variable sampling interval of the one or more processors. The processors are configured to store signal samples and associated time stamps into a variable length buffer and store new sample values and associated new time stamps into the fixed length buffer. The processors are configured to determine attributes from samples of the alternate source using the tracking frequency. The processors are configured to execute a source switchover signal when the primary source is unavailable based by comparing load bus attributes to alternate source attributes at an estimated instance of switchover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ilia Voloh, Mitalkumar G. Kanabar, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Dadash Zadeh, Amin Zamani
  • Publication number: 20170227594
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to detecting turn-to-turn faults in one or more windings of various objects. In one implementation, a fault detector uses a differential protection algorithm to detect a turn-to-turn fault in a winding of a three-phase shunt reactor. Various voltage and current measurements carried out upon the three-phase shunt reactor are used to calculate a difference value between a voltage-based parameter and a current-based parameter. The voltage-based parameter is indicative of a normalized negative voltage imbalance and the current-based parameter is indicative of a normalized negative current imbalance. A turn-to-turn winding fault is declared when the difference value is not equal to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Zhiying Zhang, Sarasij Das, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Publication number: 20170227611
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining a fault location in a three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system by using symmetrical components-based formulas that describe various voltage and current relationships. The voltage and current relationships can be derived using a synchronous measurement procedure that is concurrently executed at a sending end and a receiving end of the first series-compensated power transmission line system. Furthermore, determining the fault location in accordance with certain embodiments of the disclosure can eliminate one or more of a need to calculate an impedance value of any of the series capacitors or the series capacitor protection elements that are a part of the three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system, a need to monitor any of the series capacitor protection elements, and a need to measure a voltage drop across any of the series capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Zhihan Xu, Tirath Bains, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Publication number: 20170227591
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to detecting turn-to-turn faults in one or more windings of various objects. In one implementation, a fault detector receives a set of current measurements associated with a transformer and uses these measurements to execute a procedure for detecting a turn-to-turn fault in the transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Zhiying Zhang, Sarasij Das, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Publication number: 20170227595
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining a fault location in a three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system by using symmetrical components-based formulas that describe various voltage and current relationships in the three-phase series-compensated power transmission lines during a fault condition. Furthermore, the systems and methods for determining the fault location in accordance with certain embodiments of the disclosure can eliminate one or more of a need to calculate an impedance value of any of the series capacitors or the series capacitor protection elements that are a part of the three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system, a need to monitor any of the series capacitor protection elements, and a need to measure a voltage drop across any of the series capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Zhihan Xu, Tirath Bains, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Patent number: 9726706
    Abstract: System and method for detecting turn-to-turn faults in one or more windings of various objects are provided. In one implementation, a fault detector receives a set of current measurements associated with a transformer and uses these measurements to execute a procedure for detecting a turn-to-turn fault in the transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zhiying Zhang, Sarasij Das, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Publication number: 20160294212
    Abstract: An electronic device configured to switchover power from a primary source to an alternate source to maintain continuity of power supplied to a load bus. The electronic device includes one or more processors configured to identify availability of the alternate source using source monitoring in order to measure and calculate a tracking frequency for controlling a variable sampling interval of the one or more processors. The processors are configured to store signal samples and associated time stamps into a variable length buffer and store new sample values and associated new time stamps into the fixed length buffer. The processors are configured to determine attributes from samples of the alternate source using the tracking frequency. The processors are configured to execute a source switchover signal when the primary source is unavailable based by comparing load bus attributes to alternate source attributes at an estimated instance of switchover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ilia Voloh, Mitalkumar G. Kanabar, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Dadash Zadeh, Amin Zamani