Development of a microcontroller-based phase-resolved partial discharge measurement system with application to the monitoring of flash sintering discharge patterns - 2023
Development of a microcontroller-based phase-resolved partial discharge measurement system with application to the monitoring of flash sintering discharge patterns
Gillis, Thibault; Fagnard, Jean-François; Vanderbemden, Philippe
2023 • In IEEE Sensors Journal, 23 (19), p. 22704-22712
Capacitors; Couplings; Current measurement; Electrical insulators; Embedded software; Frequency measurement; Low-pass filters; Partial discharge; Partial discharge measurement; Voltage measurement; Discharge patterns; Flash sintering; Frequency measurements; Measurement system; Measurements of; Partial discharge measurements; Phase resolved partial discharge measurement; Repetition rate; Instrumentation; Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract :
[en] Having been for a long time a mainstay of industrial insulator material defect detection, the measurement of partial discharge patterns has recently been shown to also consist in a reliable tool helping with the monitoring of flash sintering. The goal of this work is to develop a bespoke, portable phase-resolved partial discharge (PRPD) measurement system based on microcontroller technology that can monitor partial discharge (PD) activity during the application of growing electrical voltage to a sample that is to be sintered. The system was tested on a custom experimental setup and shown to be able to measure PD pulses from 20 pC to 1000 pC, with a repetition rate of up to 100 ksamples/s above 50 pC and a reduced repetition rate under 50 pC, down to 25 ksamples/s for 20 pC charges. Phase-amplitude-occurrence discharge patterns can be recorded with a phase resolution of up to 1°. When applied to the measurement of PRPD patterns arising in a porous zinc oxide (ZnO) sample subjected to increasing electrical 50 Hz AC voltages from 500 to 2000 V at room temperature, the bespoke system was shown to be able to acquire characteristic patterns matching with those obtained using a comparable commercial system, proving its adequacy for PD monitoring in the context of flash sintering with increased flexibility and at a fraction of the price.
Disciplines :
Electrical & electronics engineering
Author, co-author :
Gillis, Thibault; University of Liege
Fagnard, Jean-François ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Montefiore Institute of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vanderbemden, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'électricité, électronique et informatique (Institut Montefiore) > Capteurs et systèmes de mesures électriques
Language :
English
Title :
Development of a microcontroller-based phase-resolved partial discharge measurement system with application to the monitoring of flash sintering discharge patterns
Publication date :
2023
Journal title :
IEEE Sensors Journal
ISSN :
1530-437X
eISSN :
1558-1748
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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