Power transformers are crucial in an electric power system. Failures in transformers can affect the quality and cause interruptions in the power supply. Partial discharges are a phenomenon that can cause failures in the transformers if not properly monitored. Typically, the monitoring requires high-cost corrective maintenance or even interruptions of the power system. Therefore, the development...

During the ageing of in-service medium voltage equipment, electrical losses are mainly due to partial discharges. These partial discharges can lead to the electrical failure of industrial equipment [1]. Partial discharges include (i) bulk discharges occurring in insulating material voids, (ii) corona discharges affecting or not the insulator and (iii) surface discharges developing on an insulat...

Partial discharges are a transient phenomena whose measurement is remarkably important for electrical equipment diagnosis and maintenance. These discharges appear in the measurement circuit as very narrow current pulses of some nanoseconds. Therefore, discharge pulse detection is a particularly difficult problem, especially because they are superposed on the high voltage waveforms that cause th...

Abstract – In this paper, the effect of applied electric field on the damage due to partial discharges activity into the surroundings dielectrics of a narrow channel encapsulated within the volume of a dielectric material is evaluated using a kinetic model based on Particle in Cell - Monte Carlo Collision (PIC-MCC) model. After application of an electric field across a dielectric material which...

The main problem in power transformers is the degradation of the isolation, and partial discharges are a major contribution to this shortcoming. Partial discharges inside mediumand high-power transformers generate ultrasonic pressure waves which are usually detected by using acoustic piezoelectric sensors placed outside the transformers. In this paper we describe an optical fibre interferometri...

High voltage transmission has been chosen in electric power system due to its capability to transfer a large amount of electric power. Several key equipments such as generator, transformer, GIS, cable and insulator play important role in determining the reliability of the power system. The high voltage equipments in general contain gas, liquid or solid insulation. Defects and a particular condi...

The insulation of the high voltage equipment is deteriorated due to the partial discharges (PDs). So it is required to monitor PDs continuously for prediction of insulation life, replacement time and early indication of outages of HV power equipment. In this work, an optical network is used to detect and measure the PDs in a model transformer.