Integrated Method of Assessment the Type of Damages, their Localization and Predicting the Destruction of High-Voltage Electrical Equipment Insulators by the Partial Discharges Characteristics

Abstract

The aim of this study is to improve the accuracy of localization of defects in insulators and determine their type. This goal is achieved by solving the problem of combining contact and remote methods for polymer and porcelain insulators using model partial discharges. The most significant results are the regularities of the dynamics of the characteristics of partial discharges up to the prebreakdown situation for porcelain insulators, the study of the statistical distributions of partial discharges depending on their intensity, and the identification of the features of the statistical distribution of surface discharges. Part of the work is devoted to the study of the characteristics of partial discharges and their sources by spectra, polarity, statistical distributions, oscillograms, which is important from the point of view of automating the recognition of corona and internal partial discharges, as well as for the recognition of porcelain insulators destroyed by partial discharges. Regularities of changes in the statistical distribution of partial discharges up to the pre-breakdown situation were established. At the same time, the breakdown signs of the model discharge gap, the breakdown voltage values for defective and operable porcelain insulators are determined, which can be used to train models of artificial neural networks and recognize the pre-breakdown situation based on them. The most significant results were: assessment of the ohmic resistance of porcelain insulators by the characteristics of partial discharges, recognition of corona, internal and surface partial discharges of polymer insulators, localization of defects, using electromagnetic radiation sensors.