HVTCA

Tri B 20-21

Week 7 – Tutorial
CM of OHL and Substation Insulators & Bushings

1. Mention the available techniques for monitoring the outdoor insulator.

2. What is the significance of the two parameters below for evaluating the pollution
severity on outdoor insulators?
a. Equivalent salt deposit density (ESDD)
b. Non-soluble material deposit density (NSDD)

3. What is the unit for ESDD and NSDD data?

4. Explain the procedure for measuring the ESDD and NSDD for a polluted cap-and-pin
insulator disk.

5. The volume of 2 litres demineralised water has been used to clean the surface of a
polluted insulator. The resulting slurry was kept stirred for at least 2 minutes before the
measurement of its volume conductivity at the temperature 20 °C σ20=400 µS/cm.
The water containing pollutants after measuring the conductivity was filtered out by using
a funnel and pre-dried and weighed filter paper (the net weight of the clean filter is
0.82g). The weight of the filter paper containing pollutants under dry condition is
measured to be Wf=1.5 g. The area of the insulator surface is A=3000 cm2.
a. Calculate the ESDD Equivalent salt deposit density (mg/cm²). and the NSDD
non-soluble material deposit density (mg/cm2).
b. Demonstrate your calculated ESDD and NSDD on the Figure 1 below and
determine the severity of pollution on the insulator.
c. You are going to determine the number of required insulators for a 400-kV
overhead transmission line (I-string). If the leakage distance of one cap-and-pin
insulator is 35cm based on the recommended leaking distance per kV (Table 1):
determine the number of required insulators (for the location that this insulator
will be installed).