Detection of Transmission Line Faults Using Discrete Wavelet Transform
Detection of Transmission Line Faults Using Discrete Wavelet Transform
Abstract—Since 1945, electric power systems have been method for fault detection and analysis of High Voltage
extremely important due to huge increase in the electric energy transmission lines. A fault detection method for heat loss at a
demand. As a result, power transmission lines have been rapidly work-shop level has been presented in [7]. Zahra et al. [8],
developed in number and length. Any disturbance or the tripping proposed a new set of time-frequency features for fault-type
of transmission line may lead to failure of supply in wide area. identification, fault-loop status supervision and fault-zone
This requires the effective protection of these lines. The analysis
of faults with different loads helps in the detection of transients
detection modules in a compensated transmission line with a
which ultimately helps in the localization, detection and unified power-flow controller. An intelligent identification
classification of power system faults to provide efficient scheme for transient faults in transmission system using Gabor
protection system. This paper presents a discrete wavelet Transform (GT) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has
transform (DWT) based methodology for detection of been proposed by the authors in [9]. Usama et al. [10],
transmission line faults. The investigated faults include line to presented the design and implementation of a wavelet
ground fault, double line fault, double line to ground fault, and analysis-based fault detection and identification. Noori et al.
three phase faults. The detailed study of detection of faults has [11], proposed a novel approach for fault detection in
been carried out in MATLAB/Simulink environment. transmission lines based on the adaptive cumulative sum
Keywords—Discrete wavelet transform; MATLAB/Simulink;
mother wavelet; power system; transmission line; transmission line
method, whose structure is adaptive with the current passing
fault. through the corresponding line. Gomes et al. [12], presented a
new model to functionally represent the phases of a
transmission line. The detection and classification strategy has
I. INTRODUCTION
been developed from the analysis of model parameters and
The identification of location of transmission line fault in a were evaluated using a set of simulated faults and a real
power grid is of great importance to facilitate self-healing of database. A novel filter based ANN approach for short-circuit
the system and for maintaining reliability of power supply [1]. faults detection, classification and location in power
Further, the continuous power systems expansion and load of transmission lines has been reported in [13]. Anamika et al.
varying nature have imposed high requirements in protecting [14], proposed a fault detection and classification scheme for
equipments, mainly related with speed and accuracy. These transmission line protection using Wavelet transform (WT)
are important factors for fault clearance. If a fault is not and linear discriminate analysis (LDA).
properly detected and removed, widespread damage or a
power system blackout may take place [2]. The behaviour of This paper presents a discrete wavelet transform based
protective devices may change with the various types of loads methodology for the detection of transmission line faults. The
faults investigated include the ground (LG) fault, double line
such as linear and non-linear loads connected with the
fault (LL), double line to ground fault (LLG), three phase fault
distribution system [3]. The transmission line protection involving ground (LLLG).
schemes are divided into three stages: (i) fault detection and
classification, (ii) fault zone estimation or fault location and This paper is organized as follows. The introduction has
(iii) decision logic and subsidiary modules [4]. Therefore, the been presented in the Section I. Section II describes the
detection of faults is essential part of protection scheme. proposed test system. The discrete wavelet transform based
proposed methodology has been detailed in the Section III.
The various techniques for detection of transmission line The simulation results and their discussions are presented in
faults have been proposed in the literature. Krishnanand et al. section IV. Finally, the conclusions presented in Section V.
[5], presented a pattern recognition approach for current
differential relaying of power transmission line. The proposed II. PROPOSED TEST SYSTEM
scheme is evaluated for current differential protection of a
transmission line fed from both ends for a variety of faults, The proposed test system consisting of three-phase voltage
fault resistance, inception angles and significant noise in the source, transmission line and three-phase load has been
provided in the Fig. 1. The three-phase resistive-inductive
signal using computer simulation studies. In [6], authors
(RL) load is considered in this study. The details of load are
carried out the research to develop an accurate real-time
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Original Signal 5 Original Signal 5
x 10 cA4 x 10 cA4
2000 4 5000 4
0 2 0 2
-2000 0 -5000 0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 0 500 1000 1500 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 200 400 600 800 1000 1200
cD4 4 cD3 4 cD3
x 10 cD4
1500 200 x 10 100
1500
1000 1000
100 50
500 500
0 0 0 0
0 500 1000 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
cD2 cD1 cD2 cD1
15 3
5 0.5
10 2
5 1
0 0 0
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 0 5000 10000 1000 2000 3000 4000 0
2000 4000 6000 8000
Fig. 4. Discrete wavelet transform based decomposition of phase-A Fig. 6. Discrete wavelet transform based decomposition of phase-C
voltage. voltage.
coefficient that the voltage does not vary significantly in the 100
500
healthy phase and it is same as that with the phase-B. The high 50
values of the detail coefficients have been observed at the time 0
0
of fault occurrence. However, the values of theses coefficients 0 500 cD2 1000 1500 0 500 1000 1500
cD1
2000 2500
are less than the faulty phases and same as the phase-B. This 20 3
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coefficients as well as approximate coefficients are same as the faulty conditions. However, the voltage of healthy phase
that with the voltage of phase-B during the LL fault. remains the unaffected during the faulty conditions.
Original Signal 5
x 10 cA4 2000
2000 4
Voltage (V)
0 2 0
Phase-A
Phase-B
-2000 0
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 Phase-C
-2000
cD4 4 cD3 0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.16 0.18 0.2
x 10 200 Time (s)
1000
Fig. 11. Three-phase voltages during double line to ground fault with R-L
500 100
load.
0 0
0 200 400 600
cD2
800 1000 1200 500 1000 1500
cD1
2000 2500 The wavelet decomposition of voltage of phase-A is
20 4 detailed in the Fig. 12. It can be observed from the
10 2 approximate coefficient (cA4) that the voltage in the faulty
phase reduces to zero. The high values of the detail
0
1000 2000 3000 4000
0
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 coefficients have been observed at the time of fault
occurrence. The detail coefficient at level 4 (cD4) has a value
Fig. 9. Discrete wavelets transform based decomposition of phase-B of 800 which is less than that with the LG fault and higher
voltage. than that for the double line fault. This helps in the
discrimination of this fault from the LG and LL faults.
The wavelet decomposition of voltage of phase-C with
double line fault is shown in Fig. 10. It can be observed from Original Signal 5
x 10 cA4
2000 4
the approximate coefficient that the voltage does not vary
0
significantly in the healthy phase during the faulty period. 2
the faulty phase. The detail coefficient at level 4 (cD4) is 0.2 500 100
the faulty phase is also less than that with the LG fault. This 0 0
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000
clearly discriminates these two types of faults. 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000
Original Signal x 10
5
cA4 Fig. 12. Discrete wavelet transform based decomposition of phase-A
2000 4 voltage.
0 2 The wavelet decomposition of voltage of phase-B is shown
-2000 0
in Fig. 13. It is evident that the detail coefficients as well as
0 0.5 1
cD4
1.5 2
4
200 400 600 800 1000 1200
cD3
approximate coefficient are same as that with the voltage of
0.2 x 10 0.02 phase-B during the LLG fault.
0.1 0.01
0 Original Signal 5
cA4
0 2000 x 10
200 400 600 800 1000 1200 500 1000 1500 2000 4
-3 -4
x 10 cD2 x 10 cD1
0 2
2 1
-2000 0
1 0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 200 400 600 800 1000 1200
cD4 4 cD3
1000 x 10 150
0 0
1000 2000 3000 4000 2000 4000 6000 8000 100
500
Fig. 10. Discrete wavelet transform based decomposition of phase-C 50
voltage. 0 0
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
cD2 cD1
3
C. Double Line to Ground Fault 10
2
5
The double line to ground fault is simulated by 1
0 0
simultaneous grounding the phases A and B. The voltage 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000
waveforms during the fault are shown in Fig. 11. The voltage
magnitude in both the phases A and B reduces to zero during Fig. 13. Discrete wavelet transform based decomposition of phase-B
voltage.
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5
The wavelet decomposition of voltage of phase-C with 2000
Original Signal
4
x 10 cA4
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