A fault location scheme based on spectrum characteristic of fault-generated high-frequency transient signals

When a fault occurs on a transmission line, fault-generated high-frequency signals contains a lot of information about fault. This paper proposes a fault location scheme for transmission lines based on spectrum characteristic of high-frequency components, the difference of adjacent two natural frequencies in one ends of transmission line is used to compute fault distance. This method need not identify arriving time of first traveling wave and traveling wave from fault point, it is insensitive to swings, fault type, fault resistance and system source parameters. The scheme performance was proven using power system computer aided design (PSCAD) simulations in 500-kV power system considering critical fault cases.