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Investigation, Experimental Development, and Field Application of Non-Invasive Sensors for Partial Discharge Measurement
No full textElectrical insulating systems represent one of the weakest elements of the entire electrical equipment. In fact, the lifetime of any electrical device depends on the capability of its insulation to last in time. In general, all organic materials, and in particular all dielectrics, are subjected to ageing. The ageing process is caused by different stresses: thermal, electrical, mechanical and environmental. By focusing on the electrical stress, it is possible to state that it is fundamentally characterized by two phenomena: the presence of an electric field and/or the presence of partial discharges (PDs), a phenomenon in which the interelectrode zone is partially short-circuited causing degradation of the material. It is clear, therefore, how partial discharges are both the symptom and the cause of the deterioration of the insulating materials. Thus, the measurement of this phenomenon leads to obtain an “image” of the status of the insulating system allowing to perform a predictive diagnostic by an expert user or by sophisticate artificial intelligence algorithms. These diagnostic techniques lead to reduce the maintenance costs since they allow to perform a condition-based maintenance that is carried out only when this is necessary, according to the real state of the component.
To measure the partial discharge activity there are different methods, but it is possible to classify them into two groups: electrical detection methods and non-electrical detection methods. If the electrical methods typically need invasive procedures to perform the partial discharge measurement, the non-electrical ones, on the contrary, can be implemented on the electrical component without any change (non-invasive) in the normal operating of the equipment.
The focus of this research activity is to study, develop and optimize prototypes, test them in laboratory and in real applications of different non-invasive sensors in order to measure partial discharges. Two kind of sensors are analysed: Transient Earth Voltage Sensors and High Frequency Current Transformers ones.
Transient Earth Voltage Sensors are based on the homonymous operating principle, and they can be used when the electrical apparatus is placed inside a metal box like switchgears or gas insulated systems. Starting from a first investigation on the effect of the geometrical dimensions of different sensors prototype in order to maximize the signal output, a first preliminary on-field test campaign is performed on an industrial air insulated medium voltage switchgear. Then, the entire partial discharge measurement system configuration, based on a definitive version of TEV sensor, is optimized and tested on the industrial test set-up, by comparing the obtained PD pattern with those collected from an IEC 60270 standard compliant measurement system. The results suggest how the non-invasive PD measurement system provides information comparable to those collected by the standard-compliant one.
The High Frequency Current Transformer Sensors are studied and optimized during an experimental laboratory activity where different magnetic core material and different sensor configurations are tested. The results allow to implement the HFCT sensor on an optimized PD measurement system introduced to perform a research investigation on the phenomenon of electrical treeing on HVDC cable insulation, carried out during an exchange program at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. The aim of this investigation is to understand the behaviour of the electrical treeing with different voltage frequencies and amplitudes during long-term tests since some preliminary tests give unexpected results. In fact, it is generally accepted that increasing the frequency leads to an accelerated ageing process, mainly due to partial discharge activity, and therefore, to a reduced time to breakdown. The collected results show that increasing the applied voltage frequency, the time to breakdown increases since the electrical treeing shape changes. During this analysis, PD measurement is carried out in order to monitor the electrical treeing evolution during the degradation process by adopting the optimized HFCT-based measurement system
Partial Discharge alert system in medium voltage switchgear
No full textPartial discharge (PD) is a well-known indicator of insulation problems in high voltage equipment. We report on experience collected during the development of a new online PD detection and alert system for air insulated switchgear (AIS) installed base. The approach taken to integrate the sensor with minimal retrofit effort and operational disruption is described. Results from a test setup including a line-up of panels and different reference PD sources in comparison to a commercial PD system are presented. The effect of cables connected to the switchgear is investigated by testing the system including additional capacitive load and using a simulation for a typical geometry. We also address the question regarding the design of an alert system to be used in connection with the continuous data acquisition
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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