الملخص الإنجليزي
Using PMU data, the fault location algorithm has gradually been trended in the literature. Besides the
optimality of the algorithm, the fault location application should directly receive the data of the faulty
line from the PMU devices to have the best performance; using state estimation to create the input
data of fault location algorithm not only wastes the golden time, but it also decreases the reliability.
Given, it is not possible to install PMU devices in all buses of the system, it is better to install them for
the lengthy lines having the most probability of the failure. Although various approaches have been
presented in the literature to solve optimal PMU placement (OPP), the fault location observability has
less been considered in OPP formulation Accordingly, this paper considers a new index, named fault
location observability (FLO), as a second objective function in its OPP formulation. Using this index, in
addition to minimizing PMU installation cost, the number of lengthy lines being directly observable are
also maximized. Using the ε-constraint method, the multi-objective problem has been solved several
times as single-objective optimizations. Given the constraints and objective functions are linear, the
work presents a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for the placement problem.
Using the GAMS under CPLEX solver, the global optimal solutions of MILP model corresponding to the
various ε-constraints yields to a Pareto optimal front. The simulation results, next, implements the
proposed method on the IEEE 300 bus test system as well as the practical OMAN grid to prove the
effectiveness of the proposed method.
