Coupling unit for the operative monitoring of the high-voltage wingings and the connected output leads in electric high-voltage machines and apparatus, by means of partial discharge determination and breakdown spark measurement

• US 4,779,051 A
• Filed: 02/13/1987
• Issued: 10/18/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Koziel, Reinhold, Grunewald, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/033,156
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 324/158 MG, 324/158 SR, 324/158 SY, 324/511, 324/536, 324/541, 324/544, 324/519
• US Class Current: 324/536
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/343 in operation
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 7/06 for dynamo-electric generators; for synchronous capacitors

Abstract

Coupling unit for the operational monitoring of the high-voltage winding (SW) and the connected electric output lines in electric high-voltage machines and apparatus, particularly of three-phase stator windings in turbo-generators including their generator output lines (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) and/or in transformers and converters by means of determining partial discharges and measurement of the breaking spark in the high-frequency range, where the above-mentioned machines and apparatus are connected via generator output leads or other connecting line to each other and are connected to ground potential via network protection capacitors. The respective coupling unit (AE1, AE2, AE3) is coupled to one each of the three legs (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) of the generator output lead (5), and the network protection capacitor (C₁, C₂, C₃) of each phase are connected to ground potential (B) via a measuring impedance. Furthermore, the shielded measuring lines (4.1, 4.2, 4.3) brought from the measuring voltage terminal of the measuring impedance to the partial discharge measuring device, are conducted through a filter.

Claims

1. A coupling unit for operational monitoring of high voltage windings and connected electric output leads in electric high-voltage machines and apparatus, said machines and apparatus having at least one phase lead, divided into high voltage cells each having a floor, including stator windings in turbo-generators, generator, transformer, and converter output leads;

wherein said coupling unit monitors by means of determining partial discharges and breaking spark measurement, the above-mentioned phase lead is connected to ground potential via a respective network protection capacitor,

the coupling unit is coupled selectively to the phase lead and said network protection capacitor is connected at one side to a respective phase lead and at the other side to a measuring voltage terminal;

said coupling unit comprising at least one measuring impedance connected at one side to said measuring voltage terminal, and at the other side to ground potential;

a partial discharge measuring device;

at least one filter; and

at least one shielded measuring line leading from the measuring voltage terminal through said filter to said measuring device.

2. Coupling unit according to claim 1, including a normally open ground-disconnect switch connected in shunt with the measuring impedance.

3. Coupling unit according to claim 2, including a shunt circuit formed of the measuring impedance and the ground-disconnect switch, and an electric breakdown fuse connected in parallel to the shunt circuit.

4. Coupling unit according to claim 3 wherein the measuring line is realized as a shielded coaxial cable;

including a coaxial relay having at least two switches which include one single pole double throw switch having three contacts of which at least one is a grounding contact and one switch is a single pole single throw switch, the double throw switch makes a connection, in measuring operation, between the measuring line and the measuring voltage terminal, and when the measuring line is taken out of operation, makes a connection between the measuring voltage terminal and ground potential, and the single pole single throw, switch connects the measuring line to ground potential, and is open in measuring operation.

5. Coupling unit according to claim 4, including at least a first, second and third mutually series-connected network protection capacitor for each phase lead, and a plurality of high voltage support insulators, of which the first and second capacitor are arranged on said high voltage support insulators at a higher level than floor level and are connected directly to the generator phase leads and of which the third capacitor is arranged at a level lower than said higher level and is closely spaced from the floor of the respective high voltage cell;

the cell having an accessible front side and a boundary grid;

said their capacitor being connectible to ground potential via the grounding contact of the double throw switch, the third protection capacitor being supported by means of an insulating material plate;

a metallic grounded mounting plate of the coupling unit being mounted on a support structure, the measuring impedance, the overvoltage arrester, the breakdown fuse, the coaxial relay including switching line for actuating the relay and said phase lead being fastened onto said mounting plate.

6. Coupling unit according to claim 5 including an insulating tube and a connecting jack, and wherein the coaxial cable and the switching line are brought through the insulating tube to the connecting jack at the boundary grid on the front side of the high-voltage cell.