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    The document discusses a commissioning test performed on a high voltage cable system using partial discharge testing and noise mitigation techniques to identify defects. Partial discharge testing was performed during energization at different voltage levels and proprietary time-frequency mapping was used to identify discharges from different sources and locate defects within splices.

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    Commissioning Test

    for HV Cable Systems

    Customer Asset Under Test


    Keywords
    - Commissioning test
    - HV cable systems
    - High sensitivity sensors (HFCT)
    - Noise mitigation with T-F Map
    - AQUILA Portable PD Test Unit
    Power Utilities HV Cable Systems

    Issue
    Commissioning test is critical for deploying HV cable
    systems, which ensures the performance and the
    reliability of the power transmission system. The
    conventional withstand test may not reveal defects
    that do not lead to immediate failure, which is the
    reason that partial discharge (PD) test is introduced
    during the withstand test (or called monitored
    withstand test).

    Discriminating the noises and categorizing PDs from


    various sources are the challenges in the field PD
    measurements. PD testing sensitivity is significantly
    affected by the noise mitigation techniques, and the
    accuracy of this diagnostic test is strongly
    determined by recognizing the types of defects and
    pinpointing the location of the defects.

    Data interpretation is critical in performing PD test


    successfully. Unlike other testing technologies, the
    meaningful results from PD test cannot be simply
    obtained from a numerical threshold value. Instead,
    the PD data analysis involves in noise mitigation, PD
    source separation, defect type recognition and
    source localization. Thus, wealth of experiences and
    knowledge are required in PD measurement and
    data analysis.

    Project
    Techimp had performed commissioning test on a
    5300ft, XLPE insulated 230kV cable systems. The
    cable system includes 6 outdoor terminations and 9
    joints installed in manholes.

    Partial discharge test was performed during the test


    to monitor the insulation condition.
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    Solution
    The commissioning test was a monitored withstand test.
    The cables were energized at 0.8 and 1 U0 (operating
    voltage) for PD measurement. If there was no PD, the
    voltage was then raised to 1.7U0 for one hour. During the
    one-hour withstand test, the PD measurement was
    performed at each cable termination and splice,
    individually.

    The proprietary TF Mapping technology represents the


    acquired pulse by its time width and frequency bandwith,
    from which the pulses from different sources can be
    clustered. The TF Mapping is effective to mitigate the
    noises in the field condition, as well as recognizing
    discharges from various sources. The sensitivity and the
    accuracy of the PD diangosis are significanlty improved
    with the TF Mapping technology.

    Results
    All the six cable terminations are PD free at 1.7U0 testing voltage. However, 6 out of 9 splices in the circuits showed
    PD activities starting from 0.8 U0. The phase resolved pattern is employed to recognize the types of defects, which
    indicates surface discharges and internal discharges had been observed. The frequency spectrum and the PD pulse
    polarity were utilized to locate the discharge source location. Those PDs were confirmed to be within the splice body.

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    Conclusions & Recommendations


    The client stopped the installation work and performed further investigation to confirm that all the six splices showing
    PD had internal defects, which were essentially from design issues.

    All the splices were replaced.

    The Techimp commissioning test successfully helped the client ensure the quality of the installed HV cable systems.

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