Radiometric location of partial discharge sources for the future smart grid
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Neto, Jose Mauricio; Zhang, Yong; Jaber, Adel; Zhu, M; Judd, Martin; Atkinson, Robert; Soraghan, John; Neto, Jose Sergio; de Fatima Q Vieira, Maria; Glover, Ian A
- Source
- 2014 XXXIth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS) General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2014 XXXIth URSI. :1-4 Aug, 2014
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Partial discharges
Sensors
Radio frequency
Wireless sensor networks
Power measurement
Laboratories
Pulse measurements
- Language
Measurements are reported that suggest partial discharge sources might be detected and located using amplitude-only free-space radiometric measurements. The measurements are made in two locations with similar measurement protocols by three collaborating research groups. One measurement set is more encouraging than the other but a likely explanation for the disparate nature of the results is offered. It is suggested that amplitude only measurements might form the basis of a low-cost wireless sensor network for monitoring partial discharge in electricity substation.