GIS leak monitoring method based on vibration signal

• US 10,422,715 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2017
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: State Grid Henan Electric Power Company Anyang Power Supply Company
• Original Assignee: State Grid Henan Electric Power Company Anyang Power Supply Company
• Inventors: Wang, Chunning, Xu, Honghua, Ma, Hongzhong, Li, Kai, Liu, Baowen, Li, Yong, Chen, Bingbing, Cui, Yangliu
• Primary Examiner(s): Fitzgerald, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phan, Truong D
• Application Number:
  US15/424,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20170234758A1
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• Field of Search: 73 405 A, 73592, 73587, 702 56
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 3/24 using infrasonic, sonic, or ultrasonic vibrations

Abstract

The present invention relates to a leak detection method for GIS based on vibration signals and belongs to the technical field of apparatus for detecting or reacting mechanical or electrical troubles. The method is carried out by the following steps: 1) Installing a vibration sensor on each connecting flange of each gas-tight chamber of the GIS; 2) Starting the GIS; 3) Acquiring the vibration signals of sensors when the GIS operation is stable after starting; 4) Doing de-noise processing on the collected vibration signal; 5) Doing 4-layer wavelet packet decomposition of the vibration signal after noise reduction to obtain the energy proportion of the vibration signal in each frequency band; 6) Analyzing the energy proportion of the vibration signal in each frequency band in step 5), Then alarm to notify the relevant personnel. Return to step 3) until the fault has been solved.

Claims

1. A GIS leak detection method based on vibration signals is characterized by following steps:

1) providing a GIS having a plurality connecting flanges, installing only one magnetic vibration sensor on each connecting flange of each gas-tight throttle chamber of the GIS, and installing each vibration sensor on a surface of one of flange bolts for each connecting flange; and

each vibration sensor is placed at a same relative position with respect to its corresponding surface of the connecting flange;

2) initiating the GIS;

3) collecting vibration signals by the vibration sensors after the start operation of the GIS, using a sampling frequency of 12 kHz, and sampling time of 5 seconds;

4) doing de-noise processing on the collected vibration signals;

5) doing 4-layer wavelet packet decomposition of the vibration signals after the de-noise processing, to obtain an energy proportion of the vibration signals in each frequency band, a total being all energy proportion in each frequency band combined;

6) analyzing the energy proportion of the vibration signals in each frequency band in step

     5) returning to step

     3) to continue to monitor the GIS when the proportion of energy in a first frequency band exceeds 80% of the total, the GIS is decided to be normal;

alarming to notify relevant personnel when the proportion of energy in the first frequency band does not exceed 80% of the total, and the GIS is abnormal, return to step

     3) after a fault has solved;

wherein the step of the GIS is abnormal is determined by calculating sum of energy proportion in a second frequency band, a third frequency band and a fourth frequency band and determining leakage condition according to the following conditions;

if the proportion of energy is more than 60% of the total, the gas chamber of the GIS has a slight leakage;

if the sum of energy proportion in the second frequency band, the third frequency band, and the fourth frequency band is not more than 60% of the total and energy proportion in a seventh band of energy is not more than 40% of the total, the gas chamber of the GIS has a serious leakage; and

if the sum of energy proportion in the second frequency band, the third frequency band, and the fourth frequency band did not exceed 60% of the total and energy proportion in the seventh band of energy is not more than 40% of the total, the operation of GIS is abnormal and the gas chamber of the GIS does not leak, wherein the 4-layer wavelet packet decomposition of the vibration signals means to divide the vibration signals to 16 nodes representing continuous frequency ranges from 0-4400 Hz.

2. The GIS-based leak monitoring method based on vibration signals as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the first frequency band is 400-800 Hz, the second frequency band is 1200-1600 Hz, the third frequency band is 800-1200 Hz, the fourth frequency band is 2400-2800 Hz, and the seventh frequency band is 2000-2400 Hz.

3. The GIS-based leak monitoring method based on vibration signals as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of installing each vibration sensor on a surface of one of flange bolts for each connecting flange further includes that installing each vibration sensor on the flange bolt at π

/4 circumference position of the flange.

4. An integrated leak detection tool to be installed on a GIS system, for use to detect leak in connecting flanges of the GIS, comprising:

a plurality of vibration sensors installed on a plurality of connecting flanges of the GIS system, wherein only one vibration sensor is installed on a surface of one of flange bolts of each connecting flange of each gas-tight throttle chamber of the GIS, and each vibration sensor is placed at a same relative position with respect to its corresponding surface of the connecting flanges;

a computer readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program, said program arranged to operate a processor to perform a method of;

3) collecting vibration signals by the vibration sensors after a start operation of the GIS using a sampling frequency of 12 kHz, and sampling time of 5 seconds;

4) doing de-noise processing on the collected vibration signals;

5) doing 4-layer wavelet packet decomposition of the vibration signals after the de-noise processing, to obtain an energy proportion of the vibration signals in each frequency band, a total being all energy proportion in each frequency band combined;

6) analyzing the energy proportion of the vibration signals in each frequency band in step

     5) returning to step

     3) to continue to monitor the GIS when the proportion of energy in a first frequency band exceeds 80% of the total, the GIS is decided to be normal;

alarming to notify relevant personnel when the proportion of energy in the first frequency band does not exceed 80% of the total, and the GIS is abnormal, return to step

     3) after a fault has solved;

wherein the step of the GIS is abnormal is determined by calculating sum of energy proportion in a second frequency band, a third frequency band and a fourth frequency band and determining leakage condition according to the following conditions;

if the proportion of energy is more than 60% of the total, the gas chamber of the GIS has a slight leakage;

if the sum of energy proportion in the second frequency band, the third frequency band, and the fourth frequency band is not more than 60% of the total and energy proportion in a seventh band of energy is not more than 40% of the total, the gas chamber of the GIS has a serious leakage; and

if the sum of energy proportion in the second frequency band, the third frequency band, and the fourth frequency band did not exceed 60% of the total and energy proportion in the seventh band of energy is not more than 40% of the total, the operation of GIS is abnormal and the gas chamber of the GIS does not leak.

5. The integrated leak detection tool to be installed on a GIS system of claim 4, wherein each vibration sensor is installed on the flange bolt at π

/4 circumference position of the flange.