DETECTION OF FAULT LOCATION ON THE POWER LINES 6–35 kV WITH UNILATERAL FEED

Abstract

The paper describes new algorithm of detecting the fault location for the power lines 6–35 kV with unilateral feed. The results of operational control of the short-circuit current for the faulted phases are the only initial data needed for the fault location algorithm. Analysis of the impact of the type of short circuit, transition resistance at the damaged point, errors of current transformers, load of the line, power and resistance of supply system, calculation errors of short-circuit currents at the beginning and at the end of the line on the performance of this algorithm is also performed. Estimated parameters of the algorithm of detecting the fault location based on identified influencing factors were established by method of computational experiment. Analysis of the simulation results performed shows that the variation of the relative error in the fault location determination for different types of faults is about the same. Moreover levels of these relative errors from the effects of all influencing factors can be less than just from one of them. This is due to the mutual compensation of the various factors’ influence on values of relative errors. This fact must be taken into consideration when performing the corresponding estimates for the worst case scenario.

This paper presents the dynamic characteristics of this algorithm for detecting the fault location that allows estimating the time of detecting the fault location in different modes. Their analysis shows that there is almost no difference in quantitative and qualitative dependencies for different loads and types of faults. As the evaluation of results performed it should be noted that by means of the control only one parameter in short current mode, i.e. the short-circuit current, it is possibly with acceptable accuracy to detect the fault location.