Measuring the Pressboard Water Content of Transformers Using Cellulose Isotherms and the Frequency Components of Water Migration

作者：Martin Daniel^*; Krause Olav; Saha Tapan

来源：IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 2017, 33(3): 1314-1320.

DOI：10.1109/TPWRD.2016.2524022

• Oil insulation
• power transformer insulation
• power transformers
• pressboard insulation
• water measurement

The measurement of water within power transformer insulation is necessary for the unit's reliable operation. Probes can be inserted into the oil of a transformer to measure water activity, and then this water activity is used to determine the water content of transformer cellulosic insulation. The migration of water between the insulation media is driven by differences in water vapor pressure around the insulation system. Over time, this water reaches an equilibrium partition when cellulosic adsorption isotherms are used to calculate the concentration of water absorbed by the cellulose. However, the insulation of a normally operating transformer is highly unlikely to reach this state, as the migration of water between the insulation media is much slower than the rate of change of temperature caused by the varying load of the transformer. This leads to inaccuracies in analyzing water vapor pressure, which is a function of both oil water content and temperature. The frequency spectrum of the oil's water activity data was used to determine whether very slow changes in dissolved water, attributed to long diffusion time constants, could be separated by a filter from fast changes caused by temperature, leading to a better measurement technique. This filter was then used on data from three operating power transformers, which had their insulation water content measured using dielectric response. The results are discussed in this paper.

• 出版日期2017-6