An enhanced fault detection and location estimation method for TCSC compensated line connecting wind farm

Abstract

The paper presents a new approach to enhance the fault detection, and location determination based on travelling waves using Fast Discrete S-transform (FDST) for TCSC compensated lines connecting to wind farm. The FDST is applied to the modal components of measured currents at each terminal to detect the arrival time of the first travelling wave (transient) produced by the fault. The proposed method includes detecting the terminal with fastest arrival time of wave to identify the faulted section and estimate the fault location by using proper distance index. The simulation results have demonstrated good performance of the proposed scheme under different fault locations, fault resistances, fault inception angles, fault types, faulted sections, variations in TCSC parameters and changing wind speeds. The performance validation on the real-time digital simulator (RTDS) platform enhances the applicability of the proposed protection scheme for the TCSC based compensated line integrated with wind farm. The performance comparison with the conventional travelling wave fault location algorithms using Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) shows potential ability of the proposed method. � 2017 Elsevier Ltd