Anomaly Diagnosis of Dielectric Loss in Capacitor Voltage Transformer by Phase Angle Error
摘要
The internal insulation of a capacitor voltage transformer (CVT) is easily degraded, deteriorating its accuracy and operation stability. The dielectric loss factor (DLF) is one of the most critical indicators for assessing the insulation state of a CVT, thus it is important to design anomaly diagnosis of DLF methods for ensuring the safety of the power grid. However, existing methods are impractical for engineering applications due to the requirement of accurate substation configuration or CVT measurements. We propose an unsupervised method that associates DLF with phase angle error to address the above deficiencies. First, the local outlier factor is used to locate the faulty CVTs with abnormal DLFs, and a feature named reference comprehensive deviation is further constructed accordingly. Then, a seasonal-trend decomposition method is applied to extract DLF-related information to enable the evaluation of DLF in faulty CVTs. The proposed method requires no labels of the measurements or additional sensors, thus facilitating timely diagnosis and reducing maintenance costs. Experimental results on a designed hardware platform indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method, where the estimated absolute error of DLF is less than 0.01%.