Accurate Two-Terminal Transmission Line Fault Location Using Traveling Waves

This paper presents an innovative two-terminal traveling wave (TW)-based fault location formulation. It depends only on the time difference between the first incident TW and the successive reflection from the fault point, at both line ends. Thereby, the proposed formulation requires neither data syn...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on power delivery 2018-04, Vol.33 (2), p.873-880
Main Authors: Lopes, F. V., Dantas, K. M., Silva, K. M., Costa, F. B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Estimation
Fault location
Monitoring
power systems
Power transmission lines
Synchronization
transmission lines
traveling waves
two-terminal unsynchronized data
Uncertainty
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Summary:This paper presents an innovative two-terminal traveling wave (TW)-based fault location formulation. It depends only on the time difference between the first incident TW and the successive reflection from the fault point, at both line ends. Thereby, the proposed formulation requires neither data synchronization nor line parameters, which are sources of error that usually affect TW-based fault location schemes. Several faults on a typical 500 kV line were simulated to compare the proposed formulation performance with that of a classical two-end approach. The obtained results attest that the proposed formulation is able to accurately locate faults on transmission lines, even when data synchronism errors and uncertainties in the monitored line parameters exist.
ISSN:0885-8977
1937-4208
DOI:10.1109/TPWRD.2017.2711262