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Classification of Faults on
Transmission lines.
D.Chanda* N.K.Kishore*' A.K.Sinha
Research Scholar Associate Professor Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur- 72 1302. INDIA.
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* D.Chanda is at present a Sr. Lecturer, Jorhat Engg. College, Assam.
** Corresponding Author
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111. WAVELET MULTIRESOLUTION Source
ANALYSIS FOR T H E FAULT
CLASS1 FICATION:
Due to the unique feature of providing multiple I I
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Amplitude ratio betFeen source voltages at P and Q =
I .O, Load angle between sources =20°. Voltage angle of
'P' is leading with respect to that of 'Q'. This
corresponds to a flow of 267 MVA on transmission line
. from 'P' to 'Q'.
The total impedance of the generator and the
transformer .together on both sides are taken as
(0.2+j4.49)0 which corresponds to a X/R ratio of 22.45.
The current signals recorded at the two ends, considered
for the analysis are generated by simulating the system
on EMTP. The generated time domain signals are
sampled every 8016 and then used for the analysis using in degrees
Angle of Inception (al:)
Wavelet transform.
The data considered in the analysis is assumed
to be of finite duration and of length 2N, where N is an Fig.3. Effect of Inception angle (aF)
integ'er. If N is chosen to be 9, the total duration of the for L-L-L Fault at 195kni.
analysis comes out to Z9 (=512) x 80ps =40.96 ms,
which is about 2 cycles and is sufficient enough for the The results for the two extreme ends of the line
fault analysis. With N=9, there are (N+I) =9+1=10 are presented here to show the efficacy of the algorithm
Wavelet levels and if these 10 levels are added together even at the far end of the line as at the far end of the line,
then the original signal is faithfully reproduced at each the amplitude o f the current signal is always less when
of the sample points [ 181. the measurement is done at the other end i.e. at the
sending end. Hence, if the algorithm is valid at the far
V. Fault Classification : end, it will be valid at any distance over the total length
The types of faults considered in the analysis of the line.
are L-G, L-L-G, L-L, L-L-L faults. The simulations
'
If s,+sh+s, E 0 and also if,suni of any two of the
show that fault inception angle has' a considerable effect summations s,, SI, and s, is equal to zero, i.e. the
on the phase current samples and therefore also on magnitude of one of the summation is very small and
Wavelet transform output of post-fault signals. As the almost negligible in comparison to the equal magnitudcs
waves are periodic, it is sufficient to study the effect of of other two summations, then the fault i s classified as
inception angle in the range of 0' to 180". L-L fault i.e.
Through an exhaustive experimentation, the If sa + Sh = 0, then it is a fault involving a and b
parameter identified . for the classification is the phase.
summation of 3rd level output for the three phase If S, + S, = 0, then it is a fault involving a and c
currents. phase.
If S,=Summation of,3rd level values for current in phase s,
If Sh+ = 0, then it is a fault involving b and c
'a', phase.
Sh=Sunimation of 3rd level values for current in
phase 'b' and
S,=Sunimation o f 3rd level values for current in
phase 'c'.
If s,+sh+s, E 0, then the fault is classified as
L-L-L fault. In this case the magnitude of all the
summation values sa, s h and S, are comparable to each
other. This can be verified from the simulation results
shown in Fig.2. and Fig.3. While F i g 2 shows the plot
for a L-L-L fault at 5km, Fig.3 shows the same for a
L-L-L fault at 195km.
I lo4
in degrees
Angle of Inception (ap)
involving phase b.
If IS,\ =I s h l & << IS,[, it is a L-G fault
involving phase c.
The effects of inception angle on L-G fault involving
phase ‘a’ at 5kni and 195km distances are as shown in
Fig.6 and Fig.7. The siniulation results shown in Fig. 6 m
and Fig.7 for a L-G fault, suggest that I SI,I = I S, I with % 02- Is,I
I S., I >> I SI, I or I S, I so that S.,+SL,+S,f 0. z 06 ih Io !Msc-;-t-Ylm:
2 Angle of Inception ( a ~in)degrees
d
Fig.8. Effect of inception angle (ar)for
L-L-G fault involving phases ‘a’, ‘b’
and ground at 5km.
h
“18“
0 7.
-
$ Angle of Inception (aF)in degrees
d
m 2-.
Fig.6. Effect of inception angle ( a ~ )
/-
(3
0 1.
for L-G fault involving phase
‘a’ and eround at 5km.
s
2 Angle of Inception (ar)
in degrees
<
Fig.9. Effect of inception angle ( a , )for
L-L-G fault involving phases
‘a’, ‘b’ and ground at 195kin.
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Appendix I: .......................... yN+I),then
(- 1)h ( 2 s + k - ( L -I)]
L.r‘p (2)
..
I he nunierical values of ck for D8 Wavelet considered
in this work are taken from the available literature The original signal is reconstructed as:
[ 16.171. n+l , .
If the input signal be denoted by g(x). Then the yr= CYk (8)
decomposed signal is given by k=l . .
g (x)= . . .
P I
......... + n,W[2N-‘s - (i- 2N-‘)] (31
’
,=2\
where a, represent Wavelet co-efficients.
(2) Ccilcirlcitiori of Wavelet Co-eficients :
The coeficients ‘a,’ are calculated usirig Mallat ‘s ‘. .
algorithrii [ I 31. The calculation of a, requires the
trmsforriiatiori matrices L, arid H, for i=1.2, ........N
wliiclz are of diitierisioin (2”‘s2‘), where L atid H are
foniied fi.onz Iow-pCiss and high-pass 0 8 filter
coeJficieiits.
The wavelet coefficients are calculated using L, and HI as
follows:
If we define A, = H , (n
V
,A+l
L,), (4) .
is a ( 2 ” ~ 2dimension
~) matrix.