Advanced Approaches for Detecting and Diagnosing Transients and Faults

This paper introduces two new techniques: one for fault detection and classification and one for fault location. The techniques are quite unconventional and have numerous advantages over the existing techniques used for the same purpose. In a combination, the two techniques may be used to improve either the protective relaying of transmission lines or the off-line fault analysis. Some simulation results used to demonstrate the performance characteristics of the proposed techniques are also enclosed.