ESTRATEGIA DE REDUCCIÓN PARA LA APLICACIÓN GENERALIZADA DE LOCALIZADORES DE FALLAS EN SISTEMAS DE DISTRIBUCIÓN DE ENERGÍA ELÉCTRICA.

This paper presents a generalized strategy applied to perform the reduction of power distribution systems composed by several tapped feeders into equivalent radial feeders, as basic procedure required to the generalized implementation of impedance based fault location methods. The proposed strategy is tested using a fault location method, where it is shown a straightforward procedure to analyze the locations, and additionally the results shows errors lower than 3.5 % in the distance estimation for single line to ground, phase to phase, three phase faults. These results confirm the validity of the proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]