An Advanced Time-Frequency Domain Method for PD Extraction with Non-Intrusive Measurement

Partial discharge (PD) detection is an important method to evaluate the insulation condition of metal-clad apparatus. Non-intrusive sensors which are easy to install and have no interruptions on operation are preferred in onsite PD detection. However, it often lacks of accuracy due to the interferences in PD signals. In this paper a novel PD extraction method that uses frequency analysis and entropy based time-frequency (TF) analysis is introduced. The repetitive pulses from convertor are first removed via frequency analysis. Then, the relative entropy and relative peak-frequency of each pulse (i.e. time-indexed vector TF spectrum) are calculated and all pulses with similar parameters are grouped. According to the characteristics of non-intrusive sensor and the frequency distribution of PDs, the pulses of PD and interferences are separated. Finally the PD signal and interferences are recovered via inverse TF transform. The de-noised result of noisy PD data demonstrates that the combination of frequency and time-frequency techniques can discriminate PDs from interferences with various frequency distributions.

Authors:

• Guomin Luo
• Daming Zhang
• Yong Kwee Koh
• Kim Teck Ng
• Helmi Kurniawan
• Weng Hoe Leong

Keywords:

• Entropy
• Fourier analysis
• non-intrusive measurement
• time-frequency analysis
• partial discharge

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