Complete power distribution system representation and state determination for fault location

The impedance-based approaches for fault location in power distribution systems determine a faulted line section. Next, these require of the estimation of the voltages and currents at one or both section line ends to exactly determine the fault location. It is a challenge because in most of the powe...

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Autores:
Panesso Hernández, Andrés Felipe
Mora Flórez, Juan José
Pérez-Londoño, Sandra Milena
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2015
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/60692
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/60692
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/59024/
Palabra clave:
62 Ingeniería y operaciones afines / Engineering
Fault location
forward sweep-based method
modeling
power distribution systems
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openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:The impedance-based approaches for fault location in power distribution systems determine a faulted line section. Next, these require of the estimation of the voltages and currents at one or both section line ends to exactly determine the fault location. It is a challenge because in most of the power distribution systems, measurements are only available at the main substation.  This document presents a modeling proposal of the power distribution system and an easy implementation method to estimate the voltages and currents at the faulted line section, using the measurements at the main substation, the line, load, transformer parameters and other serial and shunt connected devices and the power system topology. The approach here proposed is tested using a fault locator based on superimposed components, where the distance estimation error is lower than 1.5% in all of the cases.