Design and Implementation of Ultra-Wide Band Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High Voltage Power Equipment
Partial discharges (PD) are the most common and harmful threat to the health of electrical insulation of high voltage (HV) and high field (HF) equipment. The occurrence of PD activity in HV and MV equipment is at the same time a cause and a sign of insulation degradation that may eventually result i...
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| author | Jean Pierre Uwiringiyimana Umar Khayam Suwarno Gian Carlo Montanari |
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| description | Partial discharges (PD) are the most common and harmful threat to the health of electrical insulation of high voltage (HV) and high field (HF) equipment. The occurrence of PD activity in HV and MV equipment is at the same time a cause and a sign of insulation degradation that may eventually result in the breakdown of the HV power equipment. For the safe and reliable operation of HV power equipment, continuous PD monitoring needs to be conducted conveniently to prevent any unplanned power outages and damage to electrical power equipment. The ultra-high frequency (UHF) PD measurement method has been widely used as an effective technique to detect PD activity on HV power equipment due to its non-invasive principle. To enable PD detection accuracy, there is still a need for more sensitive PD sensors that can assist the UHF PD monitoring system by suppressing ambient background noise and low-frequency electromagnetic interferences from telecommunication such as GSM signals. To tackle the sensitivity issues, this article presents a new design of ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip patch antenna that is capable of effective suppression of low-frequency interference signals. The proposed antenna, designed, simulated, and optimized using the CST Microwave Studio software, has a bandwidth of 3.3GHz, below -10dB, in the operating frequency range of 1.2GHz-4.5GHz. The prototype of this antenna, printed on an FR4 substrate of a thickness of 1.6mm and a dielectric constant of 4.4, featuring a compact size of 100mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times100$ </tex-math></inline-formula>mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times1.6$ </tex-math></inline-formula>mm, was implemented to detect PD through laboratory experiments. This paper shows that the designed UWB antenna has high sensitivity, good noise rejection and it is, therefore, a promising candidate sensor for PD detection on HV equipment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-50f1270546ce4d9a922fd70ac5bb58962022-12-21T20:21:52ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110109831099410.1109/ACCESS.2022.31444169684887Design and Implementation of Ultra-Wide Band Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High Voltage Power EquipmentJean Pierre Uwiringiyimana0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2375-6682Umar Khayam1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5543-4354 Suwarno2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3618-963XGian Carlo Montanari3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2025-8693School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaSchool of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaSchool of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaCenter for Advanced Power Systems, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USAPartial discharges (PD) are the most common and harmful threat to the health of electrical insulation of high voltage (HV) and high field (HF) equipment. The occurrence of PD activity in HV and MV equipment is at the same time a cause and a sign of insulation degradation that may eventually result in the breakdown of the HV power equipment. For the safe and reliable operation of HV power equipment, continuous PD monitoring needs to be conducted conveniently to prevent any unplanned power outages and damage to electrical power equipment. The ultra-high frequency (UHF) PD measurement method has been widely used as an effective technique to detect PD activity on HV power equipment due to its non-invasive principle. To enable PD detection accuracy, there is still a need for more sensitive PD sensors that can assist the UHF PD monitoring system by suppressing ambient background noise and low-frequency electromagnetic interferences from telecommunication such as GSM signals. To tackle the sensitivity issues, this article presents a new design of ultra-wideband (UWB) microstrip patch antenna that is capable of effective suppression of low-frequency interference signals. The proposed antenna, designed, simulated, and optimized using the CST Microwave Studio software, has a bandwidth of 3.3GHz, below -10dB, in the operating frequency range of 1.2GHz-4.5GHz. The prototype of this antenna, printed on an FR4 substrate of a thickness of 1.6mm and a dielectric constant of 4.4, featuring a compact size of 100mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times100$ </tex-math></inline-formula>mm <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times1.6$ </tex-math></inline-formula>mm, was implemented to detect PD through laboratory experiments. This paper shows that the designed UWB antenna has high sensitivity, good noise rejection and it is, therefore, a promising candidate sensor for PD detection on HV equipment.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9684887/Partial dischargeUHF sensorshigh-voltage equipmentUWB antenna |
| spellingShingle | Jean Pierre Uwiringiyimana Umar Khayam Suwarno Gian Carlo Montanari Design and Implementation of Ultra-Wide Band Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High Voltage Power Equipment IEEE Access Partial discharge UHF sensors high-voltage equipment UWB antenna |
| title | Design and Implementation of Ultra-Wide Band Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High Voltage Power Equipment |
| title_full | Design and Implementation of Ultra-Wide Band Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High Voltage Power Equipment |
| title_fullStr | Design and Implementation of Ultra-Wide Band Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High Voltage Power Equipment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design and Implementation of Ultra-Wide Band Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High Voltage Power Equipment |
| title_short | Design and Implementation of Ultra-Wide Band Antenna for Partial Discharge Detection in High Voltage Power Equipment |
| title_sort | design and implementation of ultra wide band antenna for partial discharge detection in high voltage power equipment |
| topic | Partial discharge UHF sensors high-voltage equipment UWB antenna |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9684887/ |
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