A survey of fault location techniques for distribution networks

Abstract EN

Since recent societies become more hooked into electricity, a higher level of power supply continuity is required from power systems.

The expansion of those systems makes them liable to electrical faults and several failures are raised due to totally different causes.

As a result of these failures, the faulty element ought to be disconnected and isolated as soon as possible to reduce the damage and remove the emergency state from the whole system.

Power quality considerations impose the grid to spot the faulted area as rapidly as doable, which forces utility operators in speeding up fault detection and system recovery and subsequently decreasing blackout time and pertinent costs.

All these conditions have raised incredible significances about investigating methods and techniques used for fast detecting of faulted area, thus this matter needs to be pulled in broad consideration among researchers in power systems.

In this paper, a comparative environment classifies and surveys a wide number of fault location procedures for distribution networks.

The paper can be considered as a guide for operating engineers and researchers to settle on the foremost viable plausibility backed their existing framework and necessities