A novel noniterative single-ended fault location method with distributed parameter model for AC transmission lines.

• The proposed single-ended method uses the extra information brought by the time interval between the operations of the circuit breakers at two line ends; the proposed method also considers distributed line parameters. Therefore, the proposed method has higher fault location accuracy than the existing method. • The proposed formulation of the fault location problem with distributed parameters is subtly simplified by Taylor expansion, and a non-iterative fault location method is proposed. The risk of unconvergence is systematically avoided and the fault location accuracy is ensured at the same time. • The proposed method does not rely on the assumptions of legacy methods (e.g., the fault current and the terminal current are in the same phase, the system is homogeneous, etc.). The proposed method does not require the parameters of the remote power system. Fast and accurate fault location methods can save costs and ensure power supply reliability. This paper proposes a novel noniterative single-ended phasor domain fault location method with distributed parameter model for AC transmission lines. Due to the limitation of information, the legacy impedance-based single-ended fault location methods usually are based on assumptions on the line or system to obtain more information. The method proposed in this paper takes advantage of the additional information brought by the operation mode of circuit breakers. The proposed method only needs the local measurements and does not need the measurements and the equivalent source parameters of the remote system. The proposed method only uses single-ended data and is not affected by communication and synchronization. The proposed method is noniterative and there is no risk of non-convergence. In addition, the method proposed in this paper does not rely on the assumptions of legacy methods and considers the distributed parameters, avoiding the disadvantages of the legacy methods. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through a lot of case studies in PSCAD/EMTDC, with different fault types, fault locations and resistances. © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]