APPLICATION OF FPGA TO ESTIMATE THE FAULT LOCATIONS ON TRANSMISSION LINES

Abstract

The faults can happen to transmission lines at anytime, anywhere and are caused by different reasons. An accurate and fast solution to detect, locate and isolate the faults will reduce the economic losse improve the quality of the power systems’ performance. The time domain reflectometry (TDR) method bases on the analysis of reflected waveforms on the transmission lines to detect the faults. This paper presented FPGA technology to send and record the reflected signal on transmission lines. Experimentals result show that is good quality to detect the fault location on the transmission line.