Accurate Fault Classification and Section Identification Scheme in TCSC Compensated Transmission Line using SVM

This paper presents a new approach for the protection of Thyristor-Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC) line using Support Vector Machine (SVM). One SVM is trained for fault classification and another for section identification. This method use three phase current measurement that results in better speed and accuracy than other SVM based methods which used single phase current measurement. This makes it suitable for real-time protection. The method was tested on 10,000 data instances with a very wide variation in system conditions such as compensation level, source impedance, location of fault, fault inception angle, load angle at source bus and fault resistance. The proposed method requires only local current measurement.

Authors:

• Pushkar Tripathi
• Abhishek Sharma
• G. N. Pillai
• Indira Gupta

Keywords:

• Fault Classification
• Section Identification
• Feature Selection
• Support Vector Machine (SVM)
• Thyristor-Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC)

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