Fault location using PMU measurements and wide-area infrastructure

Author

Picard, Stephan D. ; Adamiak, Mark G. ; Madani, Vahid

Author_Institution

GE Digital Energy Grid Autom., Markham, ON, Canada

fYear

2015

fDate

March 30 2015-April 2 2015

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

277

Abstract

Fast and accurate fault location is critical to restoration of the power system. Deployment of production grade Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) based on the latest IEEE C37.118.1 measurement standards using high-speed “P Class” data makes accurate fault location possible. Multi-terminal PMU data and decentralized PDC storage can easily be leveraged to not only obtain affordable and accurate fault location but also provide the operator with key information. By-products of this process are dynamic computation of line positive-sequence impedance and fault resistance.

Keywords

IEEE standards; fault location; phasor measurement; power system reliability; power system restoration; IEEE C37.118.1 measurement standards; PMU measurement; decentralized PDC storage; dynamic computation; fault location; fault resistance; high-speed P-class data; line positive-sequence impedance; multiterminal PMU data; power system restoration; production grade phasor measurement unit; wide-area infrastructure; Circuit faults; Current measurement; Fault location; Impedance; Phasor measurement units; Resistance; Transmission line measurements; Fault Location; PMU; Synchrophasor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Protective Relay Engineers, 2015 68th Annual Conference for

Conference_Location

College Station, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8721-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPRE.2015.7102170

Filename

7102170