Design of On-Line Monitoring System for UHVDC Earth Electrode

Pinghao Ni¹, Wei Wang¹, Peng Wei²

¹School of Electrical Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
²Ningxia Electric Power Maintenance Company, Ningxia, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jpee.2016.42002                

Abstract

At present the detecting of ultra high voltage direct current (UHVDC) earth electrode frequently uses manual inspection. This method can't get the real-time operational data of the earth electrodes, and meanwhile, the labor cost is very high. In order to satisfy the security needs of UHVDC, this paper designs an on-line monitoring system for UHVDC earth electrode. By 3G wireless communication-technologies, the system can monitor remotely many kinds of data such as the value of the grounding current, water level of the observation well, soil temperature and humidity near the earth electrode, the micro-climate around the earth electrode site, video data, etc. Through analyzing the datum, the system has broad prospect on fault detection and life evaluation of the UHVDC earth electrode.

Keywords

UHVDC, Earth Electrode, On-Line Monitoring, 3G

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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