A Cycle Voltage Measurement Method and Application in Grounding Grids Fault Location

Fan Yang, Yongan Wang, Manling Dong, Xiaokuo Kou, Degui Yao, Xing Li, Bing Gao and Irfan Ullah
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Fan Yang: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Yongan Wang: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Manling Dong: State Grid Henan Electric Power Corporation Research Institute, Zhengzhou 450052, China
Xiaokuo Kou: State Grid Henan Electric Power Corporation Research Institute, Zhengzhou 450052, China
Degui Yao: State Grid Henan Electric Power Corporation Research Institute, Zhengzhou 450052, China
Xing Li: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Bing Gao: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Irfan Ullah: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: The corrosion of grounding grids can result in a grounding accident of a power system, and much attentions has been concentrated on the method used to detect a corrosion fault in a grounding grid, in which the methods of voltage measurement and magnetic field measurement are usually used. In this paper, a cycle voltage measurement method and L-curve regularization method are proposed to locate the faults in grounding grids. The L-curve method was used to select the appropriate regularization parameter, which can effectively balance the error and stability of the solution to the inverse problem. The uncertainty of the solution due to the ill-posed problem in the inverse problem has been well-solved. Experiments were conducted in a laboratory with two network types. In addition, a field experiment was carried out in a 110-kV substation. Both of the results showed that the method can effectively locate a branch fault with a single branch and multiple branches in the grounding grids.

Keywords: cycle voltage measurement; grounding grids; fault location; L-curve regularization method; inverse problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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