J. Zhu et al., AUTOMATED FAULT LOCATION AND DIAGNOSIS ON ELECTRIC-POWER DISTRIBUTIONFEEDERS, IEEE transactions on power delivery, 12(2), 1997, pp. 801-809
This paper presents new techniques for locating and diagnosing faults
on electric power distribution feeders. The proposed fault location an
d diagnosis scheme is capable of accurately identifying the location o
f a fault upon its occurrence, based on the integration of information
available from disturbance recording devices with knowledge contained
in a distribution feeder database. The developed fault location and d
iagnosis system can also be applied to the investigation of temporary
faults that may not result in a blown fuse. The proposed fault locatio
n algorithm is based on the steady-state analysis of the faulted distr
ibution network To deal with the uncertainties inherent in the system
modeling and the phasor estimation, the fault location algorithm has b
een adapted to estimate fault regions based on probabilistic modeling
and analysis. Since the distribution feeder is a radial network multip
le possibilities of fault Locations could be computed with measurement
s available only at the substation. To identify the actual fault locat
ion, a fault diagnosis algorithm has been developed to prune down and
rank the possible fault locations by integrating the available pieces
of evidence. Testing of the developed fault location and diagnosis sys
tem using field data has demonstrated its potential for practical use.