Locating Faults on Overhead Power Transmission Lines of 110 kV and Above Using Emergency Mode Parameters

The article is devoted to the development of new fault location algorithms based on emergency mode parameters at instantaneous values on overhead power transmission lines of 110 kV and above. Increasing the accuracy of fault location algorithms is an important and urgent task. The methodological and simulation errors of fault location are directly related to the configuration of the power transmission line. The presence of parallel power transmission lines, mutual induction or branch substations affects the accuracy of fault location. In this work, the authors modernize their own previously developed fault location algorithms based on instantaneous values for complex power transmission line configurations. The developed fault location algorithms do not require additional corrections or means for processing primary signals and can be successfully applied when using data from digital in-strumental transformers. The studies of the algorithms were carried out on the simulation models of the overhead power lines in the Simulink/MATLAB software package. The remote fault location of the damage was carried out according to the parameters of the emergency mode. The assignment of parameters for the simulation modeling is carried out using the Monte Carlo method with subsequent statistical processing of the results and the construction of a justified inspection zone.