The distribution network exhibits complex structural characteristics,which makes fault localization a challenging task.Especially when a branch of the multi-branch distribution network fails,the traditional multi-bran...The distribution network exhibits complex structural characteristics,which makes fault localization a challenging task.Especially when a branch of the multi-branch distribution network fails,the traditional multi-branch fault location algorithm makes it difficult to meet the demands of high-precision fault localization in the multi-branch distribution network system.In this paper,the multi-branch mainline is decomposed into single branch lines,transforming the complex multi-branch fault location problem into a double-ended fault location problem.Based on the different transmission characteristics of the fault-traveling wave in fault lines and non-fault lines,the endpoint reference time difference matrix S and the fault time difference matrix G were established.The time variation rule of the fault-traveling wave arriving at each endpoint before and after a fault was comprehensively utilized.To realize the fault segment location,the least square method was introduced.It was used to find the first-order fitting relation that satisfies the matching relationship between the corresponding row vector and the first-order function in the two matrices,to realize the fault segment location.Then,the time difference matrix is used to determine the traveling wave velocity,which,combined with the double-ended traveling wave location,enables accurate fault location.展开更多
Aiming at the problem that most of the cables in the power collection systemof offshore wind farms are buried deep in the seabed,whichmakes it difficult to detect faults,this paper proposes a two-step fault location m...Aiming at the problem that most of the cables in the power collection systemof offshore wind farms are buried deep in the seabed,whichmakes it difficult to detect faults,this paper proposes a two-step fault location method based on compressed sensing and ranging equation.The first step is to determine the fault zone through compressed sensing,and improve the datameasurement,dictionary design and algorithmreconstruction:Firstly,the phase-locked loop trigonometric functionmethod is used to suppress the spike phenomenon when extracting the fault voltage,so that the extracted voltage valuewillnot have a large error due to the voltage fluctuation.Secondly,theλ-NIM dictionary is designed by using the node impedancematrix and the fault location coefficient to further reduce the influence of pseudo-fault points.Finally,the CoSaMP algorithmis improved with the generalized Jaccard coefficient to improve the reconstruction accuracy.The second step is to use the ranging equation to accurately locate the asymmetric fault of the wind farm collection system on the basis of determining the fault interval.The simulation results show that the proposedmethod ismore accurate than the compressedsensingmethod andimpedancemethod in fault section location and fault location accuracy,the relative error is reduced from 0.75%to 0.4%,and has a certain anti-noise ability.展开更多
The existing LCC-HVDC transmission project adopts the fixed-time delay restarting method.This method has disadvantages such as non-selectivity,long restart process,and high probability of restart failure.These issues ...The existing LCC-HVDC transmission project adopts the fixed-time delay restarting method.This method has disadvantages such as non-selectivity,long restart process,and high probability of restart failure.These issues cause a secondary impact on equipment and system power fluctuation.To solve this problem,an adaptive restarting method based on the principle of fault location by current injection is proposed.First,an additional control strategy is proposed to inject a current detection signal.Second,the propagation law of the current signal in the line is analyzed based on the distributed parameter model of transmission line.Finally,a method for identifying fault properties based on the principle of fault location is proposed.The method fully considers the influence of the long-distance transmission line with earth capacitance and overcomes the influence of the increasing effect of the opposite terminal.Simulation results show that the proposed method can accurately identify the fault properties under various complex fault conditions and subsequently realize the adaptive restarting process.展开更多
:A new accurate algorithms based on mathematical modeling of two parallel transmissions lines system(TPTLS)as influenced by the mutual effect to determine the fault location is discussed in this work.The distance rela...:A new accurate algorithms based on mathematical modeling of two parallel transmissions lines system(TPTLS)as influenced by the mutual effect to determine the fault location is discussed in this work.The distance relay measures the impedance to the fault location which is the positive-sequence.The principle of summation the positive-,negative-,and zero-sequence voltages which equal zero is used to determine the fault location on the TPTLS.Also,the impedance of the transmission line to the fault location is determined.These algorithms are applied to single-line-to-ground(SLG)and double-line-to-ground(DLG)faults.To detect the fault location along the transmission line,its impedance as seen by the distance relay is determined to indicate if the fault is within the relay’s reach area.TPTLS under study are fed from one-and both-ends.A schematic diagrams are obtained for the impedance relays to determine the fault location with high accuracy.展开更多
The small-current grounding fault in distribution network is hard to be located because of its weak fault features.To accurately locate the faults,the transient process is analyzed in this paper.Through the study we t...The small-current grounding fault in distribution network is hard to be located because of its weak fault features.To accurately locate the faults,the transient process is analyzed in this paper.Through the study we take that the main resonant frequency and its corresponding component is related to the fault distance.Based on this,a fault location method based on double-end wavelet energy ratio at the scale corresponding to the main resonant frequency is proposed.And back propagation neural network(BPNN)is selected to fit the non-linear relationship between the wavelet energy ratio and fault distance.The performance of this proposed method has been verified in different scenarios of a simulation model in PSCAD/EMTDC.展开更多
Determining the fault location using conventional impedance based distance relay in the presence of FACTS controllers is a challenging task in a transmission line. A new distance protection method is developed to loca...Determining the fault location using conventional impedance based distance relay in the presence of FACTS controllers is a challenging task in a transmission line. A new distance protection method is developed to locate the fault in a transmission line compensated with STATCOM with simple calculations. The proposed protection method considers the STATCOM injected/absorbed current to correct the fault loop apparent impedance and accordingly calculates the actual distance to the fault location. The comprehensive equations needed for apparent impedance calculation are also outlined and the performance is evaluated and tested with a typical 400 KV transmission system for different fault types and locations using MATLAB/SIMULINK software. The evaluation results indicate that the new protection method effectively estimates the exact fault location by mitigating the impact of STATCOM on distance relay performance with error less than 0.3%.展开更多
This paper presents a novel algorithm of fault location for transmission line.Solving the network spectrum equations for different frequencies the fault can be located accurately by this algorithm with one terminal da...This paper presents a novel algorithm of fault location for transmission line.Solving the network spectrum equations for different frequencies the fault can be located accurately by this algorithm with one terminal data of voltage and current,and the identified parameters,such as fault distance, fault resistance,and opposite terminal system resistance and inductance.The algorithm eliminates the influence of the opposite system impedance on the fault location accuracy,which causes the main error in traditional fault location methods using one terminal data.A method of calculating spectrum from sampled data is also proposed.EMTP simulations show the validity and higher accuracy of the fault location algorithm compared to the existing ones based on one terminal data.展开更多
The autotransformer(AT)neutral current ratio method is widely used for fault location in the AT traction power network.With the development of high-speed electrified railways,a large number of data show that the relat...The autotransformer(AT)neutral current ratio method is widely used for fault location in the AT traction power network.With the development of high-speed electrified railways,a large number of data show that the relation between the AT neutral current ratio and the distance from the beginning of the fault AT section to the fault point(Q-L relation)is mostly nonlinear.Therefore,the linear Q-L relation in the traditional fault location method always leads to large errors.To solve this problem,a large number of load-related current data that can be used to describe the Q-L relation are obtained through the load test of the electric multiple unit(EMU).Thus,an improved fault location method based on the back propagation(BP)neural network is proposed in this paper.On this basis,a comparison between the improved method and the traditional method shows that the maximum absolute error and the average absolute error of the improved method are 0.651 km and 0.334 km lower than those of the traditional method,respectively,which demonstrates that the improved method can effectively eliminate the influence of nonlinear factors and greatly improve the accuracy of fault location for the AT traction power network.Finally,combined with a shortcircuit test,the accuracy of the improved method is verified.展开更多
Presents the theory behind, the system design of the acquisition of parameters for and the experiment on the fault location by one terminal measurement in actual distribution network, and some of laws governing the on...Presents the theory behind, the system design of the acquisition of parameters for and the experiment on the fault location by one terminal measurement in actual distribution network, and some of laws governing the on site acquisition of parameters and fault location established through experimental research on actual power distribution lines.展开更多
In order to effectively solve the dead-zone and low-precision of T-shaped transmission line fault location,a new T-shaped transmission line fault location algorithm based on phase-angle jump checking is proposed in th...In order to effectively solve the dead-zone and low-precision of T-shaped transmission line fault location,a new T-shaped transmission line fault location algorithm based on phase-angle jump checking is proposed in this paper.Firstly,the 3-terminal synchronous fundamental positive sequence voltage and current phasors are extracted and substituted into the fault branch distance function to realize the selection of fault branch when the fault occurs;Secondly,use the condition of the fundamental positive sequence voltage phasor at the fault point is equal to calculate all roots(including real root and virtual roots);Finally,the phase-angle jump check function is used for checking calculation,and then the only real root can be determined as the actual fault distance,thereby achieving the purpose of high-precision fault location.MATLAB simulation results show that the proposed new algorithm is feasible and effective with high fault location accuracy and good versatility.展开更多
As the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet,the optical network carries a great amount of Internet traffic.There would be great financial losses if some faults happen.Therefore,fault location is very important f...As the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet,the optical network carries a great amount of Internet traffic.There would be great financial losses if some faults happen.Therefore,fault location is very important for the operation and maintenance in optical networks.Due to complex relationships among each network element in topology level,each board in network element level,and each component in board level,the con-crete fault location is hard for traditional method.In recent years,machine learning,es-pecially deep learning,has been applied to many complex problems,because machine learning can find potential non-linear mapping from some inputs to the output.In this paper,we introduce supervised machine learning to propose a complete process for fault location.Firstly,we use data preprocessing,data annotation,and data augmenta-tion in order to process original collected data to build a high-quality dataset.Then,two machine learning algorithms(convolutional neural networks and deep neural networks)are applied on the dataset.The evaluation on commercial optical networks shows that this process helps improve the quality of dataset,and two algorithms perform well on fault location.展开更多
Radio-frequency(RF)breakdown analysis and location are critical for successful development of high-gradient traveling-wave(TW)accelerators,especially those expected to generate high-intensity,high-power beams.Compared...Radio-frequency(RF)breakdown analysis and location are critical for successful development of high-gradient traveling-wave(TW)accelerators,especially those expected to generate high-intensity,high-power beams.Compared with commonly used schemes involving dedicated devices or complicated techniques,a convenient approach for breakdown locating based on transmission line(TL)theory offers advantages in the typical constant-gradient TW-accelerating structure.To deliver such an approach,an equivalent TL model has been constructed to equate the TW-accelerating structure based on the fun-damental theory of the TL transient response in the time domain.An equivalence relationship between the TW-accelerating structure and the TL model has been established via analytical derivations associated with grid charts and verified by TL circuit simulations.Furthermore,to validate the proposed fault-locating method in practical applications,an elaborate analysis via such a method has been conducted for the recoverable RF-breakdown phenomena observed at an existing prototype of a TW-accelerating-structure-based beam injector constructed at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.In addition,further considerations and discussion for extending the applications of the proposed method have been given.This breakdown-locating approach involving the transient response in the framework of TL theory can be a conceivable supple-ment to existing methods,facilitating solution to construction problems at an affordable cost.展开更多
Sparse measurements challenge fault location in distribution networks.This paper proposes a method for asymmetric ground fault location in distribution networks with limited measurements.A virtual injected current vec...Sparse measurements challenge fault location in distribution networks.This paper proposes a method for asymmetric ground fault location in distribution networks with limited measurements.A virtual injected current vector is formulated to estimate the fault line,which can be reconstructed from voltage sags measured at a few buses using compressive sensing(CS).The relationship between the virtual injected current ratio(VICR)and fault position is deduced from circuit analysis to pinpoint the fault.Furthermore,a two-stage recovery strategy is proposed for improving reconstruction accuracy of the current vector,where two different sensing matrixes are utilized to improve the incoherence.The proposed method is validated in IEEE 34 node test feeder.Simulation results show asymmetric ground fault type,resistance,fault position and access of distributed generators(DGs)do not significantly influence performance of our method.In addition,it works effectively under various scenarios of noisy measurement and line parameter error.Validations on 134 node test feeders prove the proposed method is also suitable for systems with more complex structure.展开更多
Precise fault location plays an important role in the reliability of modern power systems.With the in-creasing penetration of renewable energy sources,the power system experiences a decrease in system inertia and alte...Precise fault location plays an important role in the reliability of modern power systems.With the in-creasing penetration of renewable energy sources,the power system experiences a decrease in system inertia and alterations in steady-state characteristics following a fault occurrence.Most existing single-ended phasor domain methods assume a certain impedance of the remote-end system or consistent current phases at both ends.These problems present challenges to the applicability of con-ventional phasor-domain location methods.This paper presents a novel single-ended time domain fault location method for single-phase-to-ground faults,one which fully considers the distributed parameters of the line model.The fitting of transient signals in the time domain is real-ized to extract the instantaneous amplitude and phase.Then,to eliminate the error caused by assumptions of lumped series resistance in the Bergeron model,an im-proved numerical derivation is presented for the distrib-uted parameter line model.The instantaneous symmet-rical components are extracted for decoupling and inverse transformation of three-phase recording data.Based on the above,the equation of instantaneous phase constraint is established to effectively identify the fault location.The proposed location method reduces the negative effects of fault resistance and the uncertainty of remote end pa-rameters when relying on one-terminal data for localiza-tion.Additionally,the proposed fault analysis methods have the ability to adapt to transient processes in power systems.Through comparisons with existing methods in three different systems,the fault position is correctly identified within an error of 1%.Also,the results are not affected by sampling rates,data windows,fault inception angles,and load conditions. Index Terms—Fault location,distributed parameter line model,transient signal,renewable energy,instantaneous phase.展开更多
Distribution networks in China and several other countries are predominantly neutral inefficiently grounding systems(NIGSs),and more than 80%of the faults in distribution networks are single-phase-to-ground(SPG)faults...Distribution networks in China and several other countries are predominantly neutral inefficiently grounding systems(NIGSs),and more than 80%of the faults in distribution networks are single-phase-to-ground(SPG)faults.Because of the weak fault current and imperfect monitoring equipment configurations,methods used to determine the faulty line secti ons with SPG faults in NIGSs are in effective.The developme nt and application of distributi on-level phasor measurement units(PMUs)provide further comprehensive fault information for fault diagnosis in a distribution network.When an SPG fault occurs,the transient energy of the faulted line section tends to be higher than the sum of the transient energies of other line sections.In this regard,transient energy-based fault location algorithms appear to be a promising resolution.In this study,a field test plan was designed and implemented for a 10 kV distribution network.The test results dem on strate the effective ness of the transient en ergy-based SPG locati on method in practical distributi on networks.展开更多
Accurate and timely fault diagnosis is of great significance for the safe operation and power supply reliability of distribution systems.However,traditional intelligent methods limit the use of the physical structures...Accurate and timely fault diagnosis is of great significance for the safe operation and power supply reliability of distribution systems.However,traditional intelligent methods limit the use of the physical structures and data information of power networks.To this end,this study proposes a fault diagnostic model for distribution systems based on deep graph learning.This model considers the physical structure of the power network as a significant constraint during model training,which endows the model with stronger information perception to resist abnormal data input and unknown application conditions.In addition,a special spatiotemporal convolutional block is utilized to enhance the waveform feature extraction ability.This enables the proposed fault diagnostic model to be more effective in dealing with both fault waveform changes and the spatial effects of faults.In addition,a multi-task learning framework is constructed for fault location and fault type analysis,which improves the performance and generalization ability of the model.The IEEE 33-bus and IEEE 37-bus test systems are modeled to verify the effectiveness of the proposed fault diagnostic model.Finally,different fault conditions,topological changes,and interference factors are considered to evaluate the anti-interference and generalization performance of the proposed model.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
With the increasing complexity of distribution network structures originating from the high penetration of renewable energy and responsive loads,fast and accurate fault location technology for distribution networks is...With the increasing complexity of distribution network structures originating from the high penetration of renewable energy and responsive loads,fast and accurate fault location technology for distribution networks is a prerequisite for rapid isolation of faults and restoration of the power supply.In this paper,a fault location method based on community graph depth-first traversal is proposed for fast location of single-phase ground faults in distribution networks.First,this paper defines the fault graph weight of the vertices in the distribution network graph model,which can be used to reflect the topology of the vertices and fault points as well as the fluctuation of the vertices’currents.Then,the vertices on the graph model are clustered by using an improved parallel louvain method(IPLM).Finally,the community formed by IPLM is used as the smallest unit for depth-first traversal to achieve fast and accurate location of the fault section.The paper develops a distribution network graph model of IEEE 33-bus system on the graph database for testing.And three other methods are selected for comparison with IPLMDF.The test results show that IPLMDF can achieve fast and accurate fault location when half of the nodes in the distribution network are equipped with D-PMUs.When some of the D-PMUs lose time synchronization,it is still possible to locate the fault section,and at the same time,the locating results can be avoided by falling into local optimal solutions.展开更多
Some double-circuit transmission lines are untransposed,which results in complex coupling relations between the parameters of the transmission lines.If the traditional modal transformation matrix is directly used to d...Some double-circuit transmission lines are untransposed,which results in complex coupling relations between the parameters of the transmission lines.If the traditional modal transformation matrix is directly used to decouple the parameters,it can lead to large errors in the decoupled modal parameter,errors which will be amplified in the fault location equation.Consequently,it makes the fault location results of the untransposed double-circuit transmission lines less accurate.Therefore,a new modal transformation method is needed to decou-ple the parameter matrix of untransposed double-circuit transmission lines and realize the fault location according to the decoupled modal parameter.By improving the basis of the Karrenbauer matrix,a modal transformation matrix suitable for decoupling parameters of untransposed double-circuit transmission lines is obtained.To address the dif-ficulties in solving the fault location equation of untransposed double-circuit transmission lines,a new fault location method based on an improved Karrenbauer matrix and the quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization(QPSO)algorithm is proposed.Firstly,the line parameter matrix is decomposed into identical and inverse sequence compo-nents using the identical-inverse sequence component transformation.The Karrenbauer matrix is then transformed to obtain the improved Karrenbauer matrix for untransposed double-circuit transmission lines and applied to identi-cal and inverse sequence components to solve the decoupled modal parameter.Secondly,based on the principle that voltage magnitudes at both ends are equal,the fault location equation is expressed using sequence compo-nents at each end,and the QPSO algorithm is introduced to solve the equation.Finally,the feasibility and accuracy of the proposed method are verified by PSCAD simulation.The simulation results fully demonstrate that the innova-tive improvement on the basis of the traditional modal transformation matrix in this paper can realize the modal transformation of the complex coupling parameters of the untransposed double-circuit transmission lines.It causes almost no errors in the decoupling process.The QPSO algorithm can also solve the fault location equation more accu-rately.The new fault location method can realize the accurate fault location of untransposed double-circuit transmis-sion lines.展开更多
With the increasing scale of distribution networks and the mass access of distributed generation,traditional central-ized fault location methods can no longer meet the performance requirements of speed and high accura...With the increasing scale of distribution networks and the mass access of distributed generation,traditional central-ized fault location methods can no longer meet the performance requirements of speed and high accuracy.There-fore,this paper proposes a fault segment location method based on spiking neural P systems and Bayesian estimation for distribution networks with distributed generation.First,the distribution network system topology is decoupled into single-branch networks.A spiking neural P system with excitatory and inhibitory synapses is then proposed to model the suspected faulty segment,and its matrix reasoning algorithm is executed to obtain a preliminary set of location results.Finally,the Bayesian estimation and contradiction principle are applied to verify and correct the ini-tial results to obtain the final location results.Simulation results based on the IEEE 33-node system validate the feasi-bility and effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
This paper presents a properly designed branchcurrent based state estimator(BCBSE)used as the main core ofan accurate fault location approach(FLA)devoted to distribution networks.Contrary to the approaches available i...This paper presents a properly designed branchcurrent based state estimator(BCBSE)used as the main core ofan accurate fault location approach(FLA)devoted to distribution networks.Contrary to the approaches available in the literature,it uses only a limited set of conventional measurementsobtained from smart meters to accurately locate faults at busesor branches without requiring measurements provided by phasor measurement units(PMUs).This is possible due to themethods used to model the angular reference and the faultedbus,in addition to the proper choice of the weights in the stateestimator(SE).The proposed approach is based on a searchingprocedure composed of up to three stages:①the identificationof the faulted zones;②the identification of the bus closest tothe fault;and③the location of the fault itself,searching onbranches connected to the bus closest to the fault.Furthermore,this paper presents a comprehensive assessment of the proposedapproach,even considering the presence of distributed generation,and a sensitivity study on the proper weights required bythe SE for fault location purposes,which can not be found inthe literature.Results show that the proposed BCBSE-basedFLA is robust,accurate,and aligned with the requirements ofthe traditional and active distribution networks.展开更多
基金This work was funded by the project of State Grid Hunan Electric Power Research Institute(No.SGHNDK00PWJS2210033).
文摘The distribution network exhibits complex structural characteristics,which makes fault localization a challenging task.Especially when a branch of the multi-branch distribution network fails,the traditional multi-branch fault location algorithm makes it difficult to meet the demands of high-precision fault localization in the multi-branch distribution network system.In this paper,the multi-branch mainline is decomposed into single branch lines,transforming the complex multi-branch fault location problem into a double-ended fault location problem.Based on the different transmission characteristics of the fault-traveling wave in fault lines and non-fault lines,the endpoint reference time difference matrix S and the fault time difference matrix G were established.The time variation rule of the fault-traveling wave arriving at each endpoint before and after a fault was comprehensively utilized.To realize the fault segment location,the least square method was introduced.It was used to find the first-order fitting relation that satisfies the matching relationship between the corresponding row vector and the first-order function in the two matrices,to realize the fault segment location.Then,the time difference matrix is used to determine the traveling wave velocity,which,combined with the double-ended traveling wave location,enables accurate fault location.
基金This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52177074).
文摘Aiming at the problem that most of the cables in the power collection systemof offshore wind farms are buried deep in the seabed,whichmakes it difficult to detect faults,this paper proposes a two-step fault location method based on compressed sensing and ranging equation.The first step is to determine the fault zone through compressed sensing,and improve the datameasurement,dictionary design and algorithmreconstruction:Firstly,the phase-locked loop trigonometric functionmethod is used to suppress the spike phenomenon when extracting the fault voltage,so that the extracted voltage valuewillnot have a large error due to the voltage fluctuation.Secondly,theλ-NIM dictionary is designed by using the node impedancematrix and the fault location coefficient to further reduce the influence of pseudo-fault points.Finally,the CoSaMP algorithmis improved with the generalized Jaccard coefficient to improve the reconstruction accuracy.The second step is to use the ranging equation to accurately locate the asymmetric fault of the wind farm collection system on the basis of determining the fault interval.The simulation results show that the proposedmethod ismore accurate than the compressedsensingmethod andimpedancemethod in fault section location and fault location accuracy,the relative error is reduced from 0.75%to 0.4%,and has a certain anti-noise ability.
基金supported by Science and Technology Project of State Grid Corporation of China(52094020006U)National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(52061635105)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2021M692525).
文摘The existing LCC-HVDC transmission project adopts the fixed-time delay restarting method.This method has disadvantages such as non-selectivity,long restart process,and high probability of restart failure.These issues cause a secondary impact on equipment and system power fluctuation.To solve this problem,an adaptive restarting method based on the principle of fault location by current injection is proposed.First,an additional control strategy is proposed to inject a current detection signal.Second,the propagation law of the current signal in the line is analyzed based on the distributed parameter model of transmission line.Finally,a method for identifying fault properties based on the principle of fault location is proposed.The method fully considers the influence of the long-distance transmission line with earth capacitance and overcomes the influence of the increasing effect of the opposite terminal.Simulation results show that the proposed method can accurately identify the fault properties under various complex fault conditions and subsequently realize the adaptive restarting process.
文摘:A new accurate algorithms based on mathematical modeling of two parallel transmissions lines system(TPTLS)as influenced by the mutual effect to determine the fault location is discussed in this work.The distance relay measures the impedance to the fault location which is the positive-sequence.The principle of summation the positive-,negative-,and zero-sequence voltages which equal zero is used to determine the fault location on the TPTLS.Also,the impedance of the transmission line to the fault location is determined.These algorithms are applied to single-line-to-ground(SLG)and double-line-to-ground(DLG)faults.To detect the fault location along the transmission line,its impedance as seen by the distance relay is determined to indicate if the fault is within the relay’s reach area.TPTLS under study are fed from one-and both-ends.A schematic diagrams are obtained for the impedance relays to determine the fault location with high accuracy.
基金supported by National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFB0902800)Science and 333 Technology Project of State Grid Corporation of China(52094017003D).
文摘The small-current grounding fault in distribution network is hard to be located because of its weak fault features.To accurately locate the faults,the transient process is analyzed in this paper.Through the study we take that the main resonant frequency and its corresponding component is related to the fault distance.Based on this,a fault location method based on double-end wavelet energy ratio at the scale corresponding to the main resonant frequency is proposed.And back propagation neural network(BPNN)is selected to fit the non-linear relationship between the wavelet energy ratio and fault distance.The performance of this proposed method has been verified in different scenarios of a simulation model in PSCAD/EMTDC.
文摘Determining the fault location using conventional impedance based distance relay in the presence of FACTS controllers is a challenging task in a transmission line. A new distance protection method is developed to locate the fault in a transmission line compensated with STATCOM with simple calculations. The proposed protection method considers the STATCOM injected/absorbed current to correct the fault loop apparent impedance and accordingly calculates the actual distance to the fault location. The comprehensive equations needed for apparent impedance calculation are also outlined and the performance is evaluated and tested with a typical 400 KV transmission system for different fault types and locations using MATLAB/SIMULINK software. The evaluation results indicate that the new protection method effectively estimates the exact fault location by mitigating the impact of STATCOM on distance relay performance with error less than 0.3%.
基金This work was supported by Research Fund for the Doctoral Programof Higher Education(RFDP)(No.20010698015).
文摘This paper presents a novel algorithm of fault location for transmission line.Solving the network spectrum equations for different frequencies the fault can be located accurately by this algorithm with one terminal data of voltage and current,and the identified parameters,such as fault distance, fault resistance,and opposite terminal system resistance and inductance.The algorithm eliminates the influence of the opposite system impedance on the fault location accuracy,which causes the main error in traditional fault location methods using one terminal data.A method of calculating spectrum from sampled data is also proposed.EMTP simulations show the validity and higher accuracy of the fault location algorithm compared to the existing ones based on one terminal data.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFB2601500)the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province(No.2022NSFSC0405)。
文摘The autotransformer(AT)neutral current ratio method is widely used for fault location in the AT traction power network.With the development of high-speed electrified railways,a large number of data show that the relation between the AT neutral current ratio and the distance from the beginning of the fault AT section to the fault point(Q-L relation)is mostly nonlinear.Therefore,the linear Q-L relation in the traditional fault location method always leads to large errors.To solve this problem,a large number of load-related current data that can be used to describe the Q-L relation are obtained through the load test of the electric multiple unit(EMU).Thus,an improved fault location method based on the back propagation(BP)neural network is proposed in this paper.On this basis,a comparison between the improved method and the traditional method shows that the maximum absolute error and the average absolute error of the improved method are 0.651 km and 0.334 km lower than those of the traditional method,respectively,which demonstrates that the improved method can effectively eliminate the influence of nonlinear factors and greatly improve the accuracy of fault location for the AT traction power network.Finally,combined with a shortcircuit test,the accuracy of the improved method is verified.
文摘Presents the theory behind, the system design of the acquisition of parameters for and the experiment on the fault location by one terminal measurement in actual distribution network, and some of laws governing the on site acquisition of parameters and fault location established through experimental research on actual power distribution lines.
基金supported by National Nature Science Foundation of China(51507031).
文摘In order to effectively solve the dead-zone and low-precision of T-shaped transmission line fault location,a new T-shaped transmission line fault location algorithm based on phase-angle jump checking is proposed in this paper.Firstly,the 3-terminal synchronous fundamental positive sequence voltage and current phasors are extracted and substituted into the fault branch distance function to realize the selection of fault branch when the fault occurs;Secondly,use the condition of the fundamental positive sequence voltage phasor at the fault point is equal to calculate all roots(including real root and virtual roots);Finally,the phase-angle jump check function is used for checking calculation,and then the only real root can be determined as the actual fault distance,thereby achieving the purpose of high-precision fault location.MATLAB simulation results show that the proposed new algorithm is feasible and effective with high fault location accuracy and good versatility.
文摘As the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet,the optical network carries a great amount of Internet traffic.There would be great financial losses if some faults happen.Therefore,fault location is very important for the operation and maintenance in optical networks.Due to complex relationships among each network element in topology level,each board in network element level,and each component in board level,the con-crete fault location is hard for traditional method.In recent years,machine learning,es-pecially deep learning,has been applied to many complex problems,because machine learning can find potential non-linear mapping from some inputs to the output.In this paper,we introduce supervised machine learning to propose a complete process for fault location.Firstly,we use data preprocessing,data annotation,and data augmenta-tion in order to process original collected data to build a high-quality dataset.Then,two machine learning algorithms(convolutional neural networks and deep neural networks)are applied on the dataset.The evaluation on commercial optical networks shows that this process helps improve the quality of dataset,and two algorithms perform well on fault location.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11905074).
文摘Radio-frequency(RF)breakdown analysis and location are critical for successful development of high-gradient traveling-wave(TW)accelerators,especially those expected to generate high-intensity,high-power beams.Compared with commonly used schemes involving dedicated devices or complicated techniques,a convenient approach for breakdown locating based on transmission line(TL)theory offers advantages in the typical constant-gradient TW-accelerating structure.To deliver such an approach,an equivalent TL model has been constructed to equate the TW-accelerating structure based on the fun-damental theory of the TL transient response in the time domain.An equivalence relationship between the TW-accelerating structure and the TL model has been established via analytical derivations associated with grid charts and verified by TL circuit simulations.Furthermore,to validate the proposed fault-locating method in practical applications,an elaborate analysis via such a method has been conducted for the recoverable RF-breakdown phenomena observed at an existing prototype of a TW-accelerating-structure-based beam injector constructed at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.In addition,further considerations and discussion for extending the applications of the proposed method have been given.This breakdown-locating approach involving the transient response in the framework of TL theory can be a conceivable supple-ment to existing methods,facilitating solution to construction problems at an affordable cost.
基金supported in part by Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(No.2020B010166004)State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant(No.U1866210)Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2022A1515011587).
文摘Sparse measurements challenge fault location in distribution networks.This paper proposes a method for asymmetric ground fault location in distribution networks with limited measurements.A virtual injected current vector is formulated to estimate the fault line,which can be reconstructed from voltage sags measured at a few buses using compressive sensing(CS).The relationship between the virtual injected current ratio(VICR)and fault position is deduced from circuit analysis to pinpoint the fault.Furthermore,a two-stage recovery strategy is proposed for improving reconstruction accuracy of the current vector,where two different sensing matrixes are utilized to improve the incoherence.The proposed method is validated in IEEE 34 node test feeder.Simulation results show asymmetric ground fault type,resistance,fault position and access of distributed generators(DGs)do not significantly influence performance of our method.In addition,it works effectively under various scenarios of noisy measurement and line parameter error.Validations on 134 node test feeders prove the proposed method is also suitable for systems with more complex structure.
文摘Precise fault location plays an important role in the reliability of modern power systems.With the in-creasing penetration of renewable energy sources,the power system experiences a decrease in system inertia and alterations in steady-state characteristics following a fault occurrence.Most existing single-ended phasor domain methods assume a certain impedance of the remote-end system or consistent current phases at both ends.These problems present challenges to the applicability of con-ventional phasor-domain location methods.This paper presents a novel single-ended time domain fault location method for single-phase-to-ground faults,one which fully considers the distributed parameters of the line model.The fitting of transient signals in the time domain is real-ized to extract the instantaneous amplitude and phase.Then,to eliminate the error caused by assumptions of lumped series resistance in the Bergeron model,an im-proved numerical derivation is presented for the distrib-uted parameter line model.The instantaneous symmet-rical components are extracted for decoupling and inverse transformation of three-phase recording data.Based on the above,the equation of instantaneous phase constraint is established to effectively identify the fault location.The proposed location method reduces the negative effects of fault resistance and the uncertainty of remote end pa-rameters when relying on one-terminal data for localiza-tion.Additionally,the proposed fault analysis methods have the ability to adapt to transient processes in power systems.Through comparisons with existing methods in three different systems,the fault position is correctly identified within an error of 1%.Also,the results are not affected by sampling rates,data windows,fault inception angles,and load conditions. Index Terms—Fault location,distributed parameter line model,transient signal,renewable energy,instantaneous phase.
基金National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFB0902800)Science and Technology Project of State Grid Corporation of China(52094017003D)supported this work.
文摘Distribution networks in China and several other countries are predominantly neutral inefficiently grounding systems(NIGSs),and more than 80%of the faults in distribution networks are single-phase-to-ground(SPG)faults.Because of the weak fault current and imperfect monitoring equipment configurations,methods used to determine the faulty line secti ons with SPG faults in NIGSs are in effective.The developme nt and application of distributi on-level phasor measurement units(PMUs)provide further comprehensive fault information for fault diagnosis in a distribution network.When an SPG fault occurs,the transient energy of the faulted line section tends to be higher than the sum of the transient energies of other line sections.In this regard,transient energy-based fault location algorithms appear to be a promising resolution.In this study,a field test plan was designed and implemented for a 10 kV distribution network.The test results dem on strate the effective ness of the transient en ergy-based SPG locati on method in practical distributi on networks.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52277083)。
文摘Accurate and timely fault diagnosis is of great significance for the safe operation and power supply reliability of distribution systems.However,traditional intelligent methods limit the use of the physical structures and data information of power networks.To this end,this study proposes a fault diagnostic model for distribution systems based on deep graph learning.This model considers the physical structure of the power network as a significant constraint during model training,which endows the model with stronger information perception to resist abnormal data input and unknown application conditions.In addition,a special spatiotemporal convolutional block is utilized to enhance the waveform feature extraction ability.This enables the proposed fault diagnostic model to be more effective in dealing with both fault waveform changes and the spatial effects of faults.In addition,a multi-task learning framework is constructed for fault location and fault type analysis,which improves the performance and generalization ability of the model.The IEEE 33-bus and IEEE 37-bus test systems are modeled to verify the effectiveness of the proposed fault diagnostic model.Finally,different fault conditions,topological changes,and interference factors are considered to evaluate the anti-interference and generalization performance of the proposed model.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.52009106,51779206)the National Key R&D Program of China (No.2018YFB1500800)the Natural Science Fund Youth Project of Shaanxi Province (2019J-130).
文摘With the increasing complexity of distribution network structures originating from the high penetration of renewable energy and responsive loads,fast and accurate fault location technology for distribution networks is a prerequisite for rapid isolation of faults and restoration of the power supply.In this paper,a fault location method based on community graph depth-first traversal is proposed for fast location of single-phase ground faults in distribution networks.First,this paper defines the fault graph weight of the vertices in the distribution network graph model,which can be used to reflect the topology of the vertices and fault points as well as the fluctuation of the vertices’currents.Then,the vertices on the graph model are clustered by using an improved parallel louvain method(IPLM).Finally,the community formed by IPLM is used as the smallest unit for depth-first traversal to achieve fast and accurate location of the fault section.The paper develops a distribution network graph model of IEEE 33-bus system on the graph database for testing.And three other methods are selected for comparison with IPLMDF.The test results show that IPLMDF can achieve fast and accurate fault location when half of the nodes in the distribution network are equipped with D-PMUs.When some of the D-PMUs lose time synchronization,it is still possible to locate the fault section,and at the same time,the locating results can be avoided by falling into local optimal solutions.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62363022,61663021,71763025,61861025)the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province(No.23JRRA886)the Gansu Provincial Department of Education:Industrial Support Plan Project(No.2023CYZC-35).
文摘Some double-circuit transmission lines are untransposed,which results in complex coupling relations between the parameters of the transmission lines.If the traditional modal transformation matrix is directly used to decouple the parameters,it can lead to large errors in the decoupled modal parameter,errors which will be amplified in the fault location equation.Consequently,it makes the fault location results of the untransposed double-circuit transmission lines less accurate.Therefore,a new modal transformation method is needed to decou-ple the parameter matrix of untransposed double-circuit transmission lines and realize the fault location according to the decoupled modal parameter.By improving the basis of the Karrenbauer matrix,a modal transformation matrix suitable for decoupling parameters of untransposed double-circuit transmission lines is obtained.To address the dif-ficulties in solving the fault location equation of untransposed double-circuit transmission lines,a new fault location method based on an improved Karrenbauer matrix and the quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization(QPSO)algorithm is proposed.Firstly,the line parameter matrix is decomposed into identical and inverse sequence compo-nents using the identical-inverse sequence component transformation.The Karrenbauer matrix is then transformed to obtain the improved Karrenbauer matrix for untransposed double-circuit transmission lines and applied to identi-cal and inverse sequence components to solve the decoupled modal parameter.Secondly,based on the principle that voltage magnitudes at both ends are equal,the fault location equation is expressed using sequence compo-nents at each end,and the QPSO algorithm is introduced to solve the equation.Finally,the feasibility and accuracy of the proposed method are verified by PSCAD simulation.The simulation results fully demonstrate that the innova-tive improvement on the basis of the traditional modal transformation matrix in this paper can realize the modal transformation of the complex coupling parameters of the untransposed double-circuit transmission lines.It causes almost no errors in the decoupling process.The QPSO algorithm can also solve the fault location equation more accu-rately.The new fault location method can realize the accurate fault location of untransposed double-circuit transmis-sion lines.
基金funded by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61703345)the Chunhui Project Foundation of the Education Department of China(Z201980)the Open Research Subject of Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery(Xihua University),Ministry of Education(szjj2019-27).
文摘With the increasing scale of distribution networks and the mass access of distributed generation,traditional central-ized fault location methods can no longer meet the performance requirements of speed and high accuracy.There-fore,this paper proposes a fault segment location method based on spiking neural P systems and Bayesian estimation for distribution networks with distributed generation.First,the distribution network system topology is decoupled into single-branch networks.A spiking neural P system with excitatory and inhibitory synapses is then proposed to model the suspected faulty segment,and its matrix reasoning algorithm is executed to obtain a preliminary set of location results.Finally,the Bayesian estimation and contradiction principle are applied to verify and correct the ini-tial results to obtain the final location results.Simulation results based on the IEEE 33-node system validate the feasi-bility and effectiveness of the proposed method.
基金supported in part by the grant#2021/11380-5,Centro Paulista de Estudos da Transi??o Energética (CPTEn),São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)the grant#88887.661856/2022-00,Coordenação de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior–Brasil (CAPES)the grant#88887.370014/2019-00,Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior–Brasil (CAPES)。
文摘This paper presents a properly designed branchcurrent based state estimator(BCBSE)used as the main core ofan accurate fault location approach(FLA)devoted to distribution networks.Contrary to the approaches available in the literature,it uses only a limited set of conventional measurementsobtained from smart meters to accurately locate faults at busesor branches without requiring measurements provided by phasor measurement units(PMUs).This is possible due to themethods used to model the angular reference and the faultedbus,in addition to the proper choice of the weights in the stateestimator(SE).The proposed approach is based on a searchingprocedure composed of up to three stages:①the identificationof the faulted zones;②the identification of the bus closest tothe fault;and③the location of the fault itself,searching onbranches connected to the bus closest to the fault.Furthermore,this paper presents a comprehensive assessment of the proposedapproach,even considering the presence of distributed generation,and a sensitivity study on the proper weights required bythe SE for fault location purposes,which can not be found inthe literature.Results show that the proposed BCBSE-basedFLA is robust,accurate,and aligned with the requirements ofthe traditional and active distribution networks.
