FAULT IDENTIFICATION IN POWER CABLES BY USING TRAVELLING WAVE BASED APPROACH

Abstract: The faults in the underground cables cause to generate transients which propagate along the power cable as travelling waves. The velocity of the generated travelling wave and the time taken by a wave to reach the source point from the fault location enables us to calculate the fault distance value. In this paper a double ended travelling wave based approach is used and a communication channel is designed to calculate the fault distance. A circuit based model is developed in the EMTP-RV software to find out the fault distance from the source end for all types of faults. Further it is proved that the fault distance is unaffected by the change in ground resistance, various types of faults and the fault inception angle in the proposed method.