Traveling Wave Fault Location for AC Transmission Lines: An Approach Based on the Application of EMD and Teager Energy Operator

Abstract This paper proposes an approach for the single-ended and the double-ended traveling wave based fault location algorithm using the empirical mode decomposition associated with the Teager energy operator to extract characteristic data from the faulted voltage signals of an overhead transmission line. The simulation of the power system uses the JMarti line model, with an ideally transposed transmission line, and it was carried out using the Alternative Transients Program (ATP) software. After, the MATLAB® software was used for extracting the traveling wave arrival times and to perform the single-ended and the double-ended fault location algorithms for all simulated scenarios in ATP. The numerical and graphical results prove that the proposed methodology with the Teager Energy operator and the double-ended analysis can better extract the characteristic data of the voltage signals and estimate the fault location with good accuracy, with percentage error of 0.034% for the best results, depending only on the fault type and the sampling rate adopted.