抄録
The pulse radar method is one of fault location methods for power cables. It locates the breakdown point by measuring the delay time of the echo or the discharge signal coming from the breakdown point. The equipment for the pulse radar method is more compact compared with the Murray loop bridge, and its operation is more simple because sensitive adjustments of proportion are not needed. However the signal propagating through the cable is distorted depending on the distance and frequency, leading to a poor accuracy for the location. In this report, signal processing in the time-frequency domain is proposed to solve this problem. The pulse waveforms received at two different terminals of the cable were extracted by a window function, and subsequently Fourier transformed in order to calculate the phase difference at an appropriate frequency. A special care was taken for un-wrapping the folded phase spectrum. The phase difference was interpreted as the time lag at an identical frequency. The technique was applied to the fault location for a full size XLPE cable line.
