Understanding Trace-Heated Pipelines Electrical Protection Challenges and Associated Solutions

Oil & Gas industry is a major consumer of electrical power. Its focus on subsea oil fields development lead to emerging of new types of electrical loads and new design approaches. One of such technologies is Electrically Trace Heated Pipe-in-Pipe (ETH-PiP). This paper focuses on power system protection challenges posed by electrical loads in form of long, heated pipelines with distributed electric...