Electric Transmission Fault Location Techniques Using Traveling Wave Method and Discrete Wavelet Transform

Wesley Fluty, Yuan Liao

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Abstract

Accurate fault location within electric power systems is important in reducing outage duration and increasing the system reliability. This paper explores the topic of fault location using traveling waves generated by fault conditions and the discrete wavelet transform used for identifying wavefront arrival time. There is a great deal of literature on travelling wave based fault location methods. The contributions of the paper include thorough examination of the impacts of wavelet families used for analysis and sampling rate on fault location accuracy. The single-ended and double-ended methods are presented and evaluated on a single circuit and double circuit 500kV system modeled using Matlab simpowersystems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationClemson University Power Systems Conference, PSC 2020
ISBN (Electronic)9781728193847
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2020
Event2020 Clemson University Power Systems Conference, PSC 2020 - Clemson, United States
Duration: Mar 10 2020Mar 13 2020

Publication series

NameClemson University Power Systems Conference, PSC 2020

Conference

Conference2020 Clemson University Power Systems Conference, PSC 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityClemson
Period3/10/203/13/20

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Discrete wavelet transform
  • Fault location
  • Transmission systems
  • Traveling waves

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Optimization

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