Predictive Model for Equivalent Ice Thickness Load on Overhead Transmission Lines Based on Measured Insulator String Deviations

Transmission-line icing presents a serious threat to the safe operation of power systems. Therefore, the icing condition of overhead transmission lines must be accurately calculated for online monitoring and prewarning systems. Based on the icing data obtained at Xuefeng Mountain Natural Icing Stations (XMNIS), the cross-sectional shape of glaze icing on conductors was studied, and the correction coefficient of the actual nonuniform ice was proposed to provide an accurate and convenient method for field icing measurement. In addition, by analyzing the characteristics of the tension and tilt of the insulator string at the iced tangent tower, a new mechanical calculation model considering the ice and wind loads was established. One-month field observations and experiments were conducted in XMNIS, and it is shown that the calculation results have good agreement with experiment results, which suggests that the model can be used for ice thickness calculation and online monitoring on transmission lines.

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