Location of arc faults on power transmission lines

This paper presents a fault location algorithm, which allows to determine the distance to a fault and fault resistance, as a result of considering natural fault loops. It is assumed that three-phase voltages and currents from both ends of the line measured asynchronously are the input signals of the fault locator. In case of the availability of synchronized measurements the elements associated with the determination of the synchronization angle should be omitted. In addition to natural fault loop signals also use of symmetrical components (positive and negative or incremental positive sequence components) to fault location were considered as well.