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Guide for Electrical Partial D1.33
Discharge Measurements
in compliance to IEC 60270
Author:
Eberhard Lemke (DE)
Co-Authors:
Sonja Berlijn (SE), Edward Gulski (NL), Michael Muhr (AT),
Edwin Pultrum (NL), Thomas Strehl (DE),
Wolfgang Hauschild (DE), Johannes Rickmann (FR),
Guiseppe Rizzi (IT).
Fig. 1: Positive and negative PD current pulses of a cavity discharge in XLPE recorded
for an inverted point-to-plane electrode arrangement
Another option for measuring the apparent charge The main feature of a digital PD measuring system
is a very wide-band pre-amplification of the PD signal is the ability to store the following characteristic param-
captured from the test object followed by an electronic eters of each PD event:
integration. This principle offers several advantages not
only for the reduction of electromagnetic interferences, ti – instant time of PD occurrence
but also for the location of PD faults in long power cables. qi – apparent charge at ti
The performance of such an electronic integrator is ui – test voltage magnitude at ti
shown in Fig. 4. ψi – phase angle at ti
Nowadays the conventional analogue PD pulse pro- The vector [qi – ui – ti – Ψi] stored in the computer
cessing is more and more substituted by the advanced memory is utilized for further processing as well as for a
digital technique. A bloc diagram for a computerized PD visualization of phase-resolved PD patterns. This ensures
measuring system is shown in Fig. 5. Here the digitaliza- the evaluation of all PD quantities recommended in IEC
60270 as well as an in-depth statistical anal-
ysis of the very complex PD occurrence. More-
over, a PD pulse waveform analysis can be per-
formed capable for the location of the PD site
in power cables as well as for the recognition
of different PD sources and also for the de-
noising of PD signals.
qa = qc * Cb / Cc (1)