Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Vanja Svenda

Hongbo Sun

Tomihiro Takano

Systems and methods are configured for detecting and locating simultaneous faults in a distribution network having primary and secondary buses connected with two-terminal sections. The measured three-phase voltages and currents from the primary buses are received via a communication network, and the series impedances and shunt admittances and the pre-fault connectivity topology are retrieved from the storage. Simultaneous faults are determined to occur by verifying at least one phase of at least three buses having phase current mismatches determined as the differences between the measured values and calculated values using normal topology and phase voltages that are greater than a threshold. A location for each fault is determined individually if the faults are occurring at non-adjacent sections in the distribution network, or jointly if the faults are occurring at adjacent sections in the distribution network. Faulted line sections are isolated by activating switching operations for connected switches to the faulted line sections that communicatively linked to distribution system grid via communication network.

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Vanja Svenda