Arcing Faults Location Methods for Power Transmission Lines

Abstract

This paper presents three different fault location approaches: one-end Takagi algorithm, two-end algorithm considering natural fault loops and neural network. It is assumed that three-phase voltages and currents from both ends of the line measured asynchronously are the input signals of the fault locator. In addition to natural fault loop signals also the use of symmetrical components (positive and negative or incremental positive sequence components) for fault location were considered. Results of the evaluation study have been included, analyzed and discussed. The impact of filtration has also been considered.