Classification of short-circuit faults in high-voltage energy transmission line using energy of instantaneous active power components-based common vector approach

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: The majority of power system faults occur in transmission lines. The classification of these faults in power systems is an important issue. In this paper, the real parameters of a 28 km, 154 kV transmission line between Simav and Demirci in Turkey s electricity transmission network is simulated in MATLAB/Simulink. Wavelet packet transform (WPT) is applied to instantaneous voltage signals. Instantaneous active power components are obtained by multiplying instantaneous currents obtained from a voltage source side with these WPT-based voltage signal components. A new feature vector extraction scheme is employed by calculating the energies of instantaneous active power components. Constructed feature vectors are treated with a classifier for short-circuit faults that occurred in high-voltage energy transmission lines; this is known as the common vector approach (CVA). This is the first implementation of CVA in the classification of short-circuit faults that occurred in high-voltage energy transmission lines. Furthermore, the same feature vector is applied to a support vector machine and artificial neural network for a comparison with the CVA method regarding classification performance and testing duration issues. Additionally, a graphical user interface is designed in MATLAB/GUI. Various noise levels, source frequencies, fault distances, fault inception angles, and fault exposure durations can be investigated with this interface. Classification of short-circuit faults in high-voltage transmission line is achieved by using an offline monitoring methodology. It is concluded that a combination of the proposed feature extraction scheme with the CVA classifier gives substantially high performance for the classification of short circuit faults in transmission line.