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access icon free High-frequency transient comparison based fault location in distribution systems with DGs

  • Author(s): Ke Jia 1 ; Zhefeng Ren 2 ; Lun Li 1 ; Zhenwen Xuan 1 ; David Thomas 3
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  • Source: Volume 11, Issue 16, 09 November 2017, p. 4068 – 4077
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-gtd.2017.0426 , Print ISSN 1751-8687, Online ISSN 1751-8695
© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 16/03/2017, Accepted 05/07/2017, Revised 13/06/2017, Published 06/07/2017

Distributed generations (DGs) in the distribution systems are connected into the buses using power electronic converters. During fault, it is challenging to provide a constant impedance model for DGs in the system frequency due to the variable converter control strategies. System frequency impedance measurement based fault locations can be influenced by the converters’ fault behaviour. This study addresses this problem by proposing a wide-area high-frequency impedance comparison based fault location technique. The high-frequency impedance model of DG is provided. Based on the constant DG impedance model in high-frequency range, the faulted line sections can be distinguished by comparing the measured impedance differences without requiring the exact distribution system parameters. Simulation results show that the proposed wide-area transient measurements based fault location method can provide accurate faulted sections in the distribution systems with DGs regardless of the load and DG output variations, measurement noise, unbalanced loads and islanding operations.

Inspec keywords: power generation control; distributed power generation; power distribution faults; fault location; power distribution control; power generation faults

Other keywords: islanding operations; unbalanced loads; wide-area high-frequency impedance comparison-based fault location technique; constant impedance model; DG; distribution system; high-frequency transient comparison-based fault location; frequency impedance measurement-based fault location; DG output variations; variable converter control strategies; measurement noise; distributed generation; power electronic converter

Subjects: Control of electric power systems; Power system control; Distributed power generation; Distribution networks

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