Thermography and artificial intelligence in transformer fault detection

Autor: Ronaldo R. B. de Aquino, Milde M. S. Lira, Gustavo Maciel dos Santos
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Electrical Engineering. 100:1317-1325
ISSN: 1432-0487
0948-7921
DOI: 10.1007/s00202-017-0595-2
Popis: Dissolved gas analysis of insulating oil in refrigerated power transformer oil is a widespread technique for detecting incipient faults. However, this technique involves safety procedures for the collection of oil samples, laboratory response times and, in some cases, removing the transformer from operation. Removing a transformer from operation in certain situations can become very costly as there are production environments that must run uninterrupted so that stoppages such as this represent financial loss. Infrared thermography is a non-destructive temperature measurement technique commonly used to detect anomalies and predict possible faults without disrupting system operation. This paper presents studies based on the use of infrared temperature measurement to detect incipient faults in transformers through dissolved gas analysis of the insulating oil. This study’s methodology uses intelligent systems to analyse transformer face temperatures and detect incipient faults. The results obtained in this work present 86 and 83% of classification correctness using artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic, respectively.
Databáze: OpenAIRE