Performance Assessment of Fault Locators and Fault Passage Indicators in Distribution Networks by the Non-Sequential Monte Carlo Simulation

One of the effective strategies for increasing reliability of the distribution networks is to perform a faster fault localization. The common techniques for accelerating the process of finding the faults are based on application of fault locators and fault passage indicators. The goal of this study is to assess the performance of both techniques, either considered separately or in combination with each other. Since the performance of both concepts depends on various stochastic variables, a comprehensive assessment methodology developed in this paper is based on the non-sequential Monte Carlo simulation.