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Intelligent Condition Monitoring and Asset Management: Partial Discharge Monitoring For Power Transformers
Intelligent Condition Monitoring and Asset Management: Partial Discharge Monitoring For Power Transformers
Intelligent condition
monitoring and asset
management
Partial discharge monitoring
for power transformers
Condition monitoring of power transformers is a significant issuefor electrical
utilities, Recent research has demonstrated the efficacy of employing ultra high
frequency measurement ofpartial discharge in the monitoring of transformers.
A condition monitoring architecture is described that supports the capture and
interpretation of diagnostic data, and provides engineers with meaningful
diagnostic advice using intelligent system technologies.
by M. D. Judd, S. D. J. McArthur,
J.-R. McDonald and 0. Farish
when sufficient evidence exists to warrant the By interacting with this image, the user can
request. The engineer can be alerted to urgent bring up a range of options, which might
requests for attention through a pager or may include trend analysis or details of the internal
receive cautionary e-mail messages generated components of the transformer present in that
by the information layer. Access to more region. The option to go online would also be
detailed information could be provided by available, allowing animation of events in real
linking to a web page containing a graphical time and providing access to plots of the kind
interface. shown in Fig. 7.
As well as summarising the reasoning used In addition to managing the user interface,
by the corroboration layer in reaching its the information layer liases with other high-
conclusion, the graphical interface allows the level modules that are part of the intelligent
engineer to drill down through the layers, even system. Suppose an event such as the period of
accessing the raw data if necessary During this exceptional transformrr loading described in
process, the information layer retains the the previous section has occurred. Since this
function of a gateway to the other layers, may have consequences for the lifetime of the
providing the framework for visual presenta- plant, the corroboration layer will pass this
tion of underlying interpretations and data information on to the plant lifetime model,
streams. For example, if a PD source becomes which will assess the effect on the transformer
active in the transformer, its position might be as a capital asset and report on any financial
highlighted graphically, as illustrated in Fig. 8. implications of the period of heavy loading
,controlsystems/
data acquisitiion /periodic measurements/
model
corroboration
information assets
9 Structure ofihe
Uinformation management
integrated appmach lo
condition monitoring
and plant lifetime
modelling
10 Agent-based
condition monitoring
architecture for PD
0' information
iayer agents
monitoring of
transformers
I 3 corroboration
layer agents
I ' inleipietation
layer agents
11 Functional blocks
within a s i n g l e agent
ontology
ontology data dictionaly and standardised
(data dictionary) terminologyivariables used within
the agent communication language
agent communlcation
language
advances driven by mobile telephony operating 2 K1RTLEY.J. L.,JNR, HAGMAN, W H., LESIEUTRE,
in the UHF band. Bringing them together into B. C., BOYD, M.J., WARREN, E. P.CHOU. H . P. and
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A challenge currently being addressed is JUDO, M. D., TEMPLETON. D., PRYOR. B. M., and
how our understanding of the economic WELCH, I.M.: 'Partial discharge diagnostics for gas
insulated substations', lEEE T".Didrclriir and
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the monitored parameters can he improved. 905
Experience and records 01 historical data are 4 JUDD, M. D., CLEARY, G . P, BENNOCH, C. J.,
vital inputs to this process. A comprehensive PEARSON, J. 5.. and BRECKENRLDGE. T.: 'Power
monitoring framework can therefore be transformer moniroring using U H F sensors: sepa-
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regarded as a prerequisite if effective inter-
Record of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
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5 HOSSACK,J., McARTHUR. 8 . D. J., McDONALD. J.
Acknowledgment R.. STOKOE, J., and CUMMING, T.: 'A multi-agent
This article is based on work funded under the approach to power system disturbance diagnosis',
IEE Fifth International Conference on Power System
ESR-21 programme by ScottishPower and the
Management and Conrrol (PSMC), 17th-19th April
EPSRC ( G M 9 8 7 7 7 ) . 2002, London, UK, Conference Publication No. 488.
pp 317~322
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