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Traveling Wave-Based Fault Location System Connected to Busbar Voltage Transformers

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This article discusses the development stages of a traveling wave-based fault location (FL) system on electricity transmission lines that monitors voltage signals only. This article also presents a 330 kV power network model with integrated FL equipment and the simulation results of transient processes caused by short failures in this network. A traveling wave-based FL algorithm that uses a statistical method to determine the time of traveling wave arrival at the place of FL system installation is developed. The factors that affect the accuracy of wave-based FL based on signals from capacitive voltage transformers are analyzed.

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  1. G. M. Krzhizhanovsky Energy Institute, Moscow, Russia

    V. F. Lachugin & P. S. Platonov

  2. Scientific and Technical Center of the Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System, Moscow, Russia

    V. G. Alekseev, M. V. Vazyulin, N. N. Mitrofanov & S. G. Popov

  3. PJSC Rosseti, Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System of Russia, Moscow, Russia

    S. A. Arutyunov, N. G. Klyushkin & A. S. Shemetov

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Translated from Élektricheskie Stantsii, No. 1, January 2021, pp. 21 – 30. DOI: 10.34831/EP.2021.1074.1.003

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Lachugin, V.F., Platonov, P.S., Alekseev, V.G. et al. Traveling Wave-Based Fault Location System Connected to Busbar Voltage Transformers. Power Technol Eng 55, 282–290 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-021-01353-9

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