A Study on the Partial Discharge Patterns from Multi-Defect Insulating Systems

In practice, there may be various defects in an insulating system, so that the PD signals can be produced from these defects simultaneously. Regarding these situations, we have to discriminate the type of defect as well as determine whether the PD occurs or not. In this paper, some analysis results of the PD signals from multi-defects insulating system were presented. We measure the PD signals by using three kind of electrode system, IEC(b), Needle-Plane and mixed electrodes. To simulate multi-defect systems, we combined to electrode systems and apply test voltage simultaneously. Neural network, statistical analysis methods were tried, and the possibilities and limitations of each method were clarified.