Wide Area Fault Location for Power Transmission Network using Reactance Based Method

Abstract

With the advancements in smart grid, communication technology, intelligent electronic device and substation automation, wide area applications for monitoring, protection, control and fault location becoming focused nowadays and improved from time to time. This research focuses on using wide area synchrophasor measurements for fault location in transmission network which acts as a backup to conventional fault location method. Simple reactance based methods together with a developed rules system are used to locate the possible affected line and its fault location. Using the developed rules and algorithm, fault location impedance will be compared at each synchrophasor bus connected lines for different fault types, then between connected lines and finally between synchrophasors buses. Faults at various locations with different fault resistances have been simulated and the results prove that the developed method can be used to locate the fault point and can be used as a backup to main fault location method. Future works also discussed how the method can be improved to get the best and accurate fault location results.