Engineering Applications of Air Insulation Prediction Model

The gap configurations in power transmission and transformation projects are complex and diverse. The costly and time-consuming full-scale discharge tests cannot exhaustively reproduce all the gap configurations in engineering practice, and the acquired fitting relationships between the discharge voltage and the gap distance are often limited to specific gap geometries and experimental arrangements. Therefore, once the gap configuration changes, repeated tests should be carried out to obtain its discharge characteristics and measure its insulation strength. In this chapter, three common engineering gap structures are selected as the research objects, including the insulator parallel gaps, transmission line-tower body or window gaps and complex gaps for helicopter live-line work. The proposed SVM model is applied to predict their discharge voltages.