Precise Traveling Wave Based Transmission Line Fault Location Method Using Single-Ended Data

<p>With the rapid development of the social economy and the continuous extension of Internet technology, China’s power grid has entered the ranks of large-scale, high-voltage, and intelligent. The main purpose of the fault location of the transmission line is to eliminate hidden trouble and restore the fault line in time to ensure the safe and stable operation of the power system. With the advent of the smart grid, higher requirements are put forward for fault location accuracy, while the traditional wavelet transform and Hilbert-Huang transform have larger defects.</p><p>Therefore, this paper extensively analyses the generation and characteristics of fault traveling waves in transmission line fault, which proves that the traveling wave location method has higher location accuracy than the fault analysis method. Among them, the two-terminal traveling wave positioning method only uses the arrival time of the initial traveling wave, avoiding the principled defects and locating the dead zone of the single-terminal traveling wave positioning method, so the two-terminal traveling wave positioning method is generally used. The key of the two-terminal traveling wave location method is that it can accurately detect the arrival time of the initial traveling wave head. Although the Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) method can be used to detect the arrival time of the initial traveling wave head, the problem of inaccurate detection or failure of the wave head may arise when the instantaneous frequency of the IMF component decomposed by the Hilbert-Huang transform is used because of the mode aliasing in the empirical mode decomposition algorithm. Based on the above analysis, an empirical mode decomposition (EMD) combined with the Teager energy operator(TEO) is proposed for the traveling wave fault location of transmission lines. A large number of simulations prove that the EMD-TEO method in this paper can solve the problem of inaccuracy or failure of the HHT method using instantaneous frequency to detect the arrival time of wave head, and has higher fault location accuracy.</p>

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Fault Location in High Voltage Transmission Line with Current Traveling Wave

International Journal on Engineering Applications (IREA) ◽

10.15866/irea.v6i4.16019 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 112

Author(s):

I. Moosaviyan ◽

S. Gh. Seifossadat ◽

R. Kianinezhad

Keyword(s):

Transmission Line ◽

High Voltage ◽

Traveling Wave ◽

Fault Location ◽

High Voltage Transmission Line ◽

High Voltage Transmission

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A Novel Fault-location Method for HVDC Transmission Lines Based on Concentric Relaxation Principle and Wavelet Packet

Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Formerly Recent Patents on Electrical & Electronic Engineering) ◽

10.2174/2213111607666191003105654 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 705-716

Author(s):

Congshan Li ◽

Ping He ◽

Feng Wang ◽

Cunxiang Yang ◽

Yukun Tao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Transmission Lines ◽

Traveling Wave ◽

Fault Location ◽

Wave Attenuation ◽

Wavelet Packet ◽

Low Frequency ◽

Evaluation Process ◽

Location Method ◽

Hvdc Transmission ◽

Instantaneous Energy

Background: A novel fault location method of HVDC transmission line based on a concentric relaxation principle is proposed in this paper. Methods: Due to the different position of fault, the instantaneous energy measured from rectifier and inverter are different, and the ratio k between them is the relationship to the fault location d. Through the analysis of amplitude-frequency characteristics, we found that the wave attenuation characteristic of low frequency in the traveling wave is stable, and the amplitude of energy is larger, so we get the instantaneous energy ratio by using the low-frequency data. By using the method of wavelet packet decomposition, the voltage traveling wave signal was decomposed. Results: Finally, calculate the value k. By using the data fitting, the relative function of k and d can be got, that is the fault location function. Conclusion: After an exhaustive evaluation process considering different fault locations, fault resistances, and noise on the unipolar DC transmission system, four-machine two-area AC/DC parallel system, and an actual complex grid, the method presented here showed a very accurate and robust behavior.

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