The invention discloses a fault location method and a
system based on transient travelling
waves within a short time window. The method comprises the steps of acquiring the data of travelling
waves at the two ends of an electric
transmission line before the occurrence of a fault, and subjecting the data to
signal power-frequency fitting treatment to obtain an accurately fitted function value; calculating a
voltage modulus or a current modulus at a fault point according to the data of traveling
waves; according to the accurately fitted function value, conducting the Karen bell transform treatment and the data alignment treatment to obtain accurate and synchronized data values; according to accurate and synchronized data values, conducting the
wavelet transform treatment to extract the
time difference between modulus maximum values for fault location, and finally obtaining an accurate fault location value. According to the method provided in the invention, the data of traveling waves are subjected to the
signal fitting and data alignment treatment, so that the travelling wave-based fault location does not rely on the
time information of GPS timing equipment. The limitations of the GPS timing equipment are overcome. Therefore, the method and the
system can greatly improve the reliability of transient travelling wave-based fault location, so that fault location results are more accurate.