Equivalent characteristic impedance based hybrid-HVDC transmission line fault location

Abstract Aiming at the transmission line fault in Hybrid-HVDC system, this paper divides the fault evolution process into different stages according to the difference of transition resistance at the fault point and the conduction state change of power electronic devices, emphatically analyzes the conversion conditions between different stages, and proposes an adaptive criterion for judging the moment when the fault evolves into AC feed-in stage. Based on the characteristic component of electrical quantities at AC feed-in stage, this paper defines the equivalent characteristic impedance at any point of transmission line, derives the functional relationship between the fault distance and the equivalent characteristic impedance at inverter side DC bus, and locates the fault point according to this relationship. In order to extract the characteristic component of electrical quantities, a characteristic component extraction algorithm is studied, it can effectively eliminate the influence of constant DC component and decaying aperiodic component. This paper builds the Hybrid-HVDC system simulation model and carries out simulation experiments on PSCAD/EMTDC, and compares the proposed fault location principle with the existing methods. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the adaptive criterion for judging the AC feed-in stage starting moment and the proposed fault location principle.