Identification of Metallic Particle Defect in GIS Based on Partial Discharge Mechanism

Abstract

A metallic particle defect seriously degrades an insulation performance of gas insulated switchgear (GIS). Therefore, the estimation of risk of the metallic particle is important to maintain the reliability of GIS. In this paper, based on a partial discharge (PD) mechanism, we suggest a novel method to estimate the metallic particle defect using PD properties, which are the minimum instantaneous voltage of positive PD extinction, the instantaneous voltage of negative PD inception, and the negative PD pulse number from PD generation characteristics of applied voltage phase.