Identification of
partial discharge
signals
Marcus de Paula
University of Wisconsin – Madison
12/13/2013
Background
• Partial Discharges:
• Localized dielectric breakdown of a small portion of a solid or
fluid electrical insulation system under high voltage stress;
• Can lead to loss of insulating capacity and electrical system
failure.
Background
• Filtering problem:
• Have the frequency spectrum close to the noise spectrum;
• It requires more elaborate filtering method.
Goal
• Use the wavelet transform and a spatially-adaptive coefficient
selection procedure to explore the localized processing
capabilities of the WT as a way to improve the separation of
coefficients related to the signal and noise.
Goal
• The process basically consists of 6 steps:
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1. Decomposition of the signal into 6 levels using WT.
2. Extraction of each decomposition.
3. Construction of the Maxima Lines.
4. CLASSIFY lines associated with the signal or noise.
5. Delete rows associated with noise.
6. Rebuild signal using the remaining lines.
Maxima Lines
Training Data
• Source:
• Example:
SVM classifier
• Harmonic noise test:
97 3
10 90
• Classification rate = 93.5%
• Confusion matrix =
• Pulse noise test:
90 10
17 83
• Classification rate = 86.5%
• Confusion matrix =
• Real sample test:
97 3
13 87
• Classification rate = 92%
• Confusion matrix =
SVM classifier
• Results:
Future work
• Use the MLP classifier;
• Compare the results;
• Analyze differences.
References
• [1] MOTA, H., Sistema de aquisição e tratamento de dados para
monitoramento e diagnóstico de equipamentos elétricos pelo
método das descargas parciais (Acquisition system and data
processing for monitoring and diagnostic of electrical equipment by
the method of partial discharges). Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais (UFMG), Electrical Engineering Graduate Program. Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, March of 2001.
• [2] MOTA, H., Processamento de sinais de descargas parciais em
tempo real com base em wavelets e seleção de coeficientes
adaptativa espacialmente (Signal processing of partial discharges in
real time based on wavelets and selection of spatially adaptive
coefficients). Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG),
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program. Belo Horizonte, Minas
Gerais, Brazil, November of 2011.