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Distinguishing polymeric insulators PD sources through RF PD measurement

Abedini Livari, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2020

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2020.0099
  3. Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2020
  4. Abstract:
  5. A better performance and consequently the widespread use of polymeric insulators in different parts of the power grid can increase their role in the grid reliability. The accumulation of contamination and housing-erosion are the two most effective factors in undermining the performance of this type of insulators. Therefore, electric utilities need to identify contaminated insulators for washing and cracks in polymeric housing to replace them with healthy specimens. This paper discusses the impact of contamination layer and housing-erosion of polymeric insulators on the partial discharges (PD) at the insulator surface, through RF-PRPD (phase resolved partial discharge) patterns. The existence of different sources of PDs in a real environment (transmission line or station) makes it difficult to use the PRPD patterns to distinguish them from each other. Therefore, using a conical monopole antenna, the simultaneous PD signals and the related RF-PRPD pattern of samples under test are captured. The grayscale image was obtained using the time-frequency matrix of the PD signals transform, by wavelet. Then, features are extracted and selected from grayscale image. By clustering of the PD signals, the resulted RF-PRPD subpatterns are well separated and provided the necessary means to distinguish among the status of different samples under test. © 2020 Institution of Engineering and Technology. All rights reserved
  6. Keywords:
  7. Electric power transmission networks ; Electric utilities ; Erosion ; Housing ; Insulator contamination ; Monopole antennas ; Partial discharges ; Surface discharges ; Conical monopole antennas ; Contaminated insulator ; Contamination layers ; Gray-scale images ; Insulator surfaces ; Phase resolved partial discharges ; Polymeric insulators ; Real environments ; Polymers
  8. Source: IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution ; Volume 14, Issue 21 , 2020 , Pages 4859-4865
  9. URL: https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-gtd.2020.0099