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SEMINAR PRESENTATION
ON
“EHVAC TRANSMISSION LINE MAINTENANCE
TECHNIQUES IN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE-A REVIEW”
PRESENTED BY,
Mr. YASHWANT H. CHAUDHARI
(20140203)
Introduction
overview of ehvac transmission line
maintenance in India
Methods of transmission line maintenance
Preventive Maintenance :
Supply utilities trying to maintain continuity of supply otherwise they face customer’s complaints and penalized.
To maintain the continuity of supply there is need to inspect, rectify & replacement of defective parts to avoid costly
forced outages.
. Advanced tools and technologies developed are taken into consideration. Most of maintenance works can be made
with energizing the line.
Switching cycles of switchgears can be reduced by live working and it helps to reduce the incident risks considering
the age of equipment.
BENEFITS OF HOT LINE MAINTENANCE TECHNIQUES
Live line Saves Line breakdown, eliminating interruptions to the supply, compensate
the initial investment.
Avoid revenue loss, breakdown cost & maintenance cost. This is cheaper from social
& economical point.
Changing of insulator string straps on the cross arm and arching devices.
In the electric power distribution industry, a hot stick is an insulated pole, usually made of fiberglass, used
by electric utility workers when engaged on live-line working on energized high-voltage electric power lines, to
protect them from electric shock.
Depending upon tool we can preform : test for voltage, tighten nuts and bolts, open and
close switches, replace fuse.
Hot sticks are made in different lengths, from simple 3 foot (1 m) sticks to 30 foot (9 m) telescoping
models.
Osha Standards For Safe Working
The barehanded approach has a live line worker performing the work in direct electric contact
with live parts.
Before contact, the worker's body is raised to the same electric potential as the live parts, and
then held there by electric connection, while maintaining suitable isolation from the surroundings
which are at different potentials, like the ground, other people or trees. Because the worker and
the work are at the same potential, no current flows through the worker.
For this conductive suits made of 25% microscopic stainless steel and 75% nomex will be
provided.
C. Combination Of Hot Stick & Bare Hand Method:-
Generally a combination of above two methods is used in practice as
HSM & BHM are complimentary and supplementary to each other.
With the increase in transmission voltage, for same amount of power to be transmitted current in the line
decreases which reduces I^2R losses. This will lead to increase in transmission efficiency.
With decrease in transmission current, size of conductor required reduces which decreases the volume of
conductor.
The transmission capacity is proportional to square of operating voltages. Thus the transmission capacity of line
increases with increase in voltage.
With increase in level of transmission voltage, the installation cost of the transmission line per km decreases.
It is economical with EHV transmission to interconnect the power systems on a large scale.
The no. of circuits and the land requirement for transmission decreases with the use of higher transmission
voltages.
ADVANTAGES
The major advantages are:
Reduction in the current.
The total line cost per MW per km decreases considerably with the increase in line voltage.
Maintenance Technology with Smart Grid (SG) technology gives features such as maintaining
stability of the system, increase in transmission capacity, improving supply quality, improvement
in overall performance etc.
This technology has a quality to improve performance of other technologies such as Flexible AC
Transmission System (FACTS) and Wide Area Monitoring (WAM) in urban & rural area
DISADVANTAGES
The Major Disadvantage Are:
Corona Loss & Radio Interference
Line Supports
Erection Difficulties
Insulation Needs
The Cost Of Transformers, Switchgear Equipment's & Protective Equipment's Increases With Increase In
Transmission Line Voltage.
The EHV Lines Generates Electrostatic Effects Which Are Harmful To Human Beings & Animals.
Limitation For HVAC Transmission System :
Power Loss – Reactive.
Stability Limit.
Ferranti Effect.
Difficult To Control Power Flow.
APPLICATIONS
High voltage is used:
In cathode ray tubes, to generate X-rays and particle beams, to demonstrate arcing, for ignition, in
photomultiplier tubes, and high power amplifier vacuum tubes and
analysis and accurate evaluation system. There is need in development of high voltage intelligent equipment's and there
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