Evaluating the safety condition of porcelain insulators by the time and frequency characteristics of LC based on artificial pollution tests

Leakage current (LC) measurement is one of the effective methods for analysis of polluted insulators. But the traditional evaluation methods do not combine well the time-domain with frequency-domain characteristics of LC. In order to evaluate the safety condition of polluted insulators more effectively, an artificial neutral network (ANN) based method was developed in this paper. Firstly, a large number of artificial pollution tests for IEC standard suspension insulators were investigated under different relative humidity (RH) and salt deposit density (SDD). Then, based on the experimental data, the characteristics of LC were analyzed in both time-domain and frequency-domain. The results showed that the peak values of the LC (Ih ) has no relation with SDD when the RH is low ,but when the RH is high, the Ih increases with the increase of SDD; the phase difference (¿) between LC and applied voltage decreases with the increase of RH, the LC becomes inductive when strong local arc occurs; the total harmonic distortion (THD) of LC increases slowly with the increase of RH when the pollution is light, but decreases firstly, then increases with the increase of RH when the pollution is middle or heavy level, the value reaches to minimum when the RH is about 80%. Consequently, Ih, ¿ and THD were proposed as characteristic parameters to evaluate the safety condition of polluted insulators. Finally, an ANN with fuzzy output was developed to evaluate the safety condition of polluted insulators. The input parameters of the ANN were Ih, ¿ and THD, while the output parameters were fuzzified into four fuzzy subsets, the capability of ANN was validated by 8 pairs of testing samples, and the effects of SDD and RH on the performance of insulators were discussed.

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