Robust Faulted Line Identification in Power Distribution Networks via Hybrid State Estimator

Distribution networks with high penetration of distributed generation yield complicated and uncertain power flow, which makes most existing faulted line identification methods not adaptable for industrial applications. Driven by this motivation, a novel single-phase-to-ground (SPTG) faulted line identification method is proposed based on hybrid state estimator (HSE). The first step of the method is to present an HSE for power distribution networks using power flow measurements mixed phasor measurement units. Then, an SPTG fault on a power line is treated as an event that suddenly increases one virtual bus in the monitored network, so as to form the extended bus admittance matrix and augmented HSE based on the specific network topology. In this way, the faulted line identification could be obtained by computing parallel estimated results transversally. Robustness and effectiveness of the proposed HSE and the HSE-based SPTG faulted line identification method are validated by means of a cyber-physical system (a cosimulation platform), where two typical three-phase power distribution networks are considered to simulate with its hybrid measurement system.