Partial Discharge, Breakdown, Aging and Life Assessment in Electric Power Assets

Expansive reference on power equipment failures, exploring fault detection systems and breakdown mechanisms that lead to failures

Reviewing topics ranging from basic to advanced, Partial Discharge, Breakdown, Aging, and Life Assessment in Electric Power Assets familiarizes readers with failures and their indicators in different pieces of power equipment, different fault detection systems that utilize common indicators, and the breakdown mechanisms leading to failures, covering the entire timeline of insulation degradation from pre-failure symptoms to post-failure assessment. The book includes tables, illustrations, and models throughout to aid reader comprehension along with case studies and tutorials that help put theory into practice.

The book explores the theoretical background behind dielectric materials, the degradation and failures observed in electrical equipment insulation, PD measurement systems that capitalize on the multi-physics nature of PDs, as well as insulation diagnostics techniques, artificial intelligence for condition monitoring, and current power equipment monitoring schemes. Later chapters discuss numerical modelling of the degradation mechanism instigated by PD activity and development of ultra-high frequency sensors used in PD detection.