Design of DC Partial Discharge Detecting System for Electrical Equipment

A balancing method was used to build a DC partial discharge (PD) testing circuit for electrical equipment, and a narrow-band detection system was designed using detection resistance and a filter. After signal accessed a high-speed digital acquisition (DAQ) card, the system was triggered to extract a single partial discharge (PD) signal. To eliminate the interference pulses caused by power supply ripple, etc., the time domain and frequency domain features of pulses were extracted. Based on the features, cluster analysis was used to exclude interference pulses. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional histograms were obtained by use of the Δt method. Then, 22 discharge statistical operators were calculated for the two-dimensional charts. Lastly, the defective system is capable of PD detection in electrical equipment.