Technical Publications
Wischkaemper, J. A., Russell, B. D., Benner, C. L., Manivannan, K. “High-impedance fault detection revisited: why the term has lost its meaning and should be abandoned.” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (under review)
Wischkaemper, J. A., Russell, B. D., Benner, C. L., Manivannan, K., “Electrical Phenomena associated with vegetation in contact with medium voltage conductors: summary of field experiments.” CIRED 2025 Conference and Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, Geneva, Switzerland. June 2025.
Wischkaemper, J. A., Benner, C. L., Russell, B. D., Manivannan, K., “Utilizing High-Quality Waveform Data to Detect and Diagnose Protection Misoperations and Anomalies.” 17th International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection. Manchester, United Kingdom, March 2024.
Benner, C. L., Russell, B. D., Wischkaemper, J. A., Manivannan, K., “Effective Use of Incipient Failure Detection.” 76th Conference for Protective Relay Engineers, Texas A&M University, March 2023.
Russell, B. D., Wischkaemper, J. A., Benner, C. L., Manivannan, K., “Preventing Certain Powerline Caused Wildfires by Early Detection and Repair of Failing Devices.” Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2022.
Carl L. Benner, B. Don Russell, Jeffrey A. Wischkaemper, and Karthick Manivannan, “Incipient Electric Circuit Failure Detection and Outage Prevention in Petrochemical Facilities Using Advanced Electrical Waveform Monitoring,” Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee Technical Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 13 September 2021.
Russell, B. D., Benner, C. L., Wischkaemper, J. A., Manivannan, K., “Incipient Electric Circuit Failure Detection and Outage Prevention in Petrochemical Facilities Using Advanced Electrical Waveform Monitoring.” 2021 IEEE IAS Petroleum and Chemical Industry Technical Conference (PCIC). San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2001.
Wischkaemper, J. A., Benner, C. L., Russell, B. D., and Manivannan, K., “Application of Waveform Analytics for Improved Situational Awareness of Electric Distribution Feeders,” Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 6, pp. 2041-2049, 2015.
Wischkaemper, J. A., Benner, C. L., Russell, B. D., and Manivannan, K., “Application of Advanced Electrical Waveform Analytics for Reduction of Wildfire Risk.” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, Chicago, Il, April 14-17, 2014.
Russell, B. D., Benner, C. L. and Wischkaemper, J. A. “Distribution Feeder Caused Wildfires: Mechanisms and Prevention.” 65th Conference for Protective Relay Engineers, Texas A&M University, April 2012.
Wischkaemper, J. A., Benner, C. L., and B. D. Russell. “Electrical Characterization of Vegetation Contacts with Distribution Conductors – Investigation of Progressive Fault Behavior.” Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, Chicago, Il, April 21-24, 2008.
Presentation Materials
“Application of Advanced Electrical Waveform Monitoring and Analytics for Reduction of Wildfire Risk” – Presented by Jeffrey Wischkaemper at the 2014 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference in Washington, DC. February 19, 2014.
“Texas Wildfire Mitigation Project: Reducing the Risk of Wildfires Caused by Power Lines” – Presented by B. Don Russell and Carl Benner at the Wildfire Project Initiation Meeting, Austin, TX. December 12, 2014.
“Texas A&M Forest Service Geospatial Wildfire Risk Applications” – Presented by Tom Boggus at the Wildfire Project Initiation Meeting, Austin, TX. December 12, 2014.
Handouts and Documents
Participant Handouts from the Wildfire Project Initiation Meeting, Austin, TX. December 12, 2014.
Articles and Stories
“Incipient Faults: Can They Be Seen?” by C. Ken Sanford (Arizona Public Service) and John S. Bowers (Pickwick Electric). T&D World Magazine, March 2013, pp 50-55.