Electric Power ›› 2018, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (12): 63-71.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.201803206

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Fault Location for Low Voltage Active Distribution Network Based on Perturbation Method

ZHANG Pan1, ZHANG Yu2, DING Yi1, LI Wuxing2, JIANG Huilan3, CHEN Juan3   

  1. 1. State Power Research Institute of Tianjin Electric Power Company, Tianjin 300384, China;
    2. Chengnan Power Supply Branch of Tianjin Electric Power Company, Tianjin 300300, China;
    3. Smart Grid Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • Received:2018-04-04 Revised:2018-07-31 Online:2018-12-05 Published:2018-12-13
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Technique scheme of low voltage ride through for wind farms to improve power system transient stability,No.51477115) and Science and Technology of SGCC (Development and integrated demonstration application of intelligent key devices for low voltage distribution sites, No.SGTYHT/16-JS-198).

Abstract: With the access of distributed generation to low-voltage distribution network, the power flow of the distribution network becomes more complicated. As a result, the traditional fault location scheme based on one-way power flow no longer applies. This paper proposes a perturbation based phase-mode transformation to achieve the fault location for low-voltage distribution networks with distributed generation. Against the asymmetry of three-phase line parameters in low-voltage distribution network, the line parameter impedance matrix perturbation is constructed with the perturbation theory to derive the phase mode transformation matrix which can decouple the original three-phase networks into three mutually independent sequence graphs, consequently realizing the decoupling of the parameter impedance matrix of asymmetric lines. And then, A criterion is derived for judging the fault section of the low-voltage active distribution network according to the changes of the fault component phase angle differences of the section phase-mode transformation current before and after the fault, realizing the accurate position of the low voltage distribution network. The Matlab/Simulink simulation results show that the proposed method can quickly and accurately locate the fault section and solves the influence of the asymmetry of distribution network parameters on positioning accuracy.

Key words: low-voltage distribution network, fault location, perturbation method, distributed generation

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