Fault location and diagnosis in a medium voltage EPR power cable
Reid, Alistair James and Zhou, Chengke and Hepburn, Donald and Judd, Martin and Siew, Wah Hoon and Whithers, Philip (2013) Fault location and diagnosis in a medium voltage EPR power cable. IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 20 (1). pp. 10-18. ISSN 1070-9878 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TDEI.2013.6451336)
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Abstract
This paper presents a case study on fault location, characterization and diagnosis in a length of shielded 11 kV medium voltage ethylene-propylene rubber (EPR) power cable. The defect was identified on-site as a low resistance fault occurring between the sheath and the core. A 43 m section was removed for further analysis. The fault resistance was characterized and the location of the defect pinpointed to within a few cm using a combination of time-difference-of-arrival location and infra-red imaging. A combination of X-ray computed tomography, scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy were then applied to characterize any abnormalities in the dielectric surrounding the breakdown region. A significant number of high density contaminants were found to be embedded in the dielectric layer, having an average diameter of the order of 100 um, a maximum diameter of 310 um and an average density of 1 particle per 2.28 mm3 . Scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy were used to determine the geometry and elemental composition of some initial contaminant samples. It was concluded that contamination of the EPR layer, combined with an observed eccentricity of the cable’s core and sheath resulting in a reduced insulation gap, may have led to an electric field concentration in the region of the defect sufficient to initiate breakdown. Preventative strategies are discussed for similar families of cables, including more stringent dielectric testing requirements at the manufacturing stage and PD monitoring to detect incipient failure.
ORCID iDs
Reid, Alistair James, Zhou, Chengke, Hepburn, Donald, Judd, Martin, Siew, Wah Hoon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-6856 and Whithers, Philip;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 39527 Dates: DateEventFebruary 2013PublishedSubjects: Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Department: Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 04 May 2012 11:51 Last modified: 18 Dec 2024 01:15 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/39527