Teager energy assisted variational mode decomposition-based fault location technique for STATCOM compensated system

Modern power systems are structurally complex and thus experience transient events. For secure and reliable operation, quick system restoration is required whenever transient phenomenon like line faults occurs. Fault location techniques (FLTs) aid in faster restoration process. However, the accuracy of FLTs gets affected in presence of static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) since STATCOM compensates the dip in measured voltage during fault thereby affecting the fault current signals. Therefore, in this paper, a Teager energy assisted variational mode decomposition (VMD) based traveling wave FLT is developed for transmission lines with STATCOM. The proposed FLT considers two-terminal instantaneous voltage signals for locating faults. In this FLT, the signals are first decoupled into modal signals and then aerial mode of the signals is chosen for decomposition using VMD. The signals are decomposed via VMD to level three producing mode three signals. Teager energy of the resultant signals is obtained and from the first peak of the energy signals, arrival time of waves (ATWs) is estimated. These estimated ATWs are used to calculate fault location and percentage error. To validate the performance of proposed FLT, several test cases with different fault scenarios are considered and the results are compared with existing techniques. The results prove efficacy of proposed FLT for studied system.

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In this paper, a Teager energy assisted variational mode decomposition (VMD) based traveling wave fault location technique (FLT) is developed for transmission lines with STATCOM, which can quickly and accurately locate the fault position.