UHF partial discharge and location measuring device for high-voltage power devices

• US 8,008,926 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2008
• Issued: 08/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Korea Electric Power Corporation (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electric Power Corporation (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Ju, Hyung-Jun, Goo, Sun-Geun, Han, Ki-Son, Yoon, Jin-Yul, Park, Ki-Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): NATALINI, JEFF WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US12/345,261
• Publication Number:
  US 20100079148A1
• Time in Patent Office: 974 Days
• Field of Search: 324/536, 324/458, 324/613, 367/129
• US Class Current: 324/536
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/1254 of gas-insulated power appliances or vacuum gaps testing switches G01R31/327; detecting electrical or mechanical defects in encased switchgear H02B13/065

Abstract

Disclosed is a UHF partial discharge and its location measuring device for high-voltage power devices. The measuring device includes a partial discharge sensor, an external noise sensor, an analogue-digital converter, a peak detector, a partial discharge signal processor, an arrival time detector, a discharge location processor, and a display unit.

Claims

1. A UHF partial discharge and location measuring device for high-voltage power devices, the device comprising:

a partial discharge sensor attached to a Device Under Test (DUT) to detect a partial discharge signal;

an external noise sensor located outside the DUT to detect an external noise signal;

an analogue-digital converter that receives a partial discharge signal from the partial discharge sensor and an external noise signal from the external noise sensor and digitalizes the received signals;

a peak detector that extracts a peak value of the digitalized signal for each sensor;

a partial discharge signal processor that generates a peak signal for a phase and time of a power signal applied to the DUT, density of the peak signal for the phase of the power signal applied to the DUT, and a long-term variation in trend of the partial discharge signal from the extracted peak value for each sensor;

an arrival time detector that detects a start point of the partial discharge signal and detects an arrival time;

a discharge location processor that yields a discharge location from a location coordinate where the partial discharge sensor is positioned and the arrival time and performs a statistical process on the yielded discharge location according to a number of yield times; and

a display unit that displays the peak signal, the density, the variation in trend, and the discharge location.

2. The UHF partial discharge and location measuring device for high-voltage power devices of claim 1, wherein a noise processor removes a noise signal measured at the partial discharge sensor and reduces a noise signal other than the partial discharge signal from the digitalized partial discharge signal in a case where the magnitude of the external noise signal is equal to or larger than a magnitude preset by a user.

3. The UHF partial discharge and location measuring device for high-voltage power devices of claim 2, wherein the discharge location processor calculates each distance by multiplying the arrival time by signal transmission velocity and determines an intersection of circular trajectories, each of which corresponds to the distance, as a position where the partial discharge occurs.

4. The UHF partial discharge and location measuring device for high-voltage power devices of claim 3, wherein when the position where the partial discharge occurs is determined as a no-discharge-occur location, another location closest to the detected discharge location, where any discharge may occur, is also displayed.