Determination of Fault Surge Waveshapes with Particular Reference to Fault Detection

This paper describes the analytical procedure of determining the attenuation and distortion of fault-generated surges on transmission lines when the skin effects of conductor and earth are taken into account. Herein, the term which considers the skin effect of the earth has been modified. After comparing the results with known approaches, a method, for selecting the circuit parameters of the detection circuit which is used to couple the fault signal from the transmission line to the fault-locating equipment, is given.