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The Relationship between the Damage Rate of High Voltage Electrical Equipment and Instrumental Seismic Intensity

Version 1 : Received: 18 September 2020 / Approved: 20 September 2020 / Online: 20 September 2020 (14:14:12 CEST)

How to cite: Liu, R.; Xiong, M.; Tian, D. The Relationship between the Damage Rate of High Voltage Electrical Equipment and Instrumental Seismic Intensity. Preprints 2020, 2020090441 Liu, R.; Xiong, M.; Tian, D. The Relationship between the Damage Rate of High Voltage Electrical Equipment and Instrumental Seismic Intensity. Preprints 2020, 2020090441

Abstract

Wenchuan earthquake that occurred in China in 2008 caused severe damage to a large number of electric substations. In this paper, Kriging interpolation method was used to calculate the impact area of the instrumental seismic intensity in Wenchuan earthquake, and to compare the intensities based on strong motion observation against the instrumental seismic intensities at locations where the observation data is available. The instrumental seismic intensities were calculated for the Wenchuan Earthquake at substations in the national power grid with voltage of 110kV or higher in areas of Mianyang, Deyang, Guangyuan and Chengdu. The cumulative Gaussian distribution function was then used to fit the relationship of the curves of the damage probabilities of high-voltage electrical equipment such as transformers, voltage mutual inductors, current mutual inductors, circuit breakers, isolating switches and lightning arrester with their instrumental seismic intensities. The damage probability density distribution curve of high-voltage electrical equipment based on the instrumental seismic intensities was obtained. The results showed that: (1) In the lower seismic intensity region, the mean instrumental seismic intensity was in good agreement with the traditional seismic intensity, but there was noticeable dispersion; in regions of intensity IX and above, the instrumental intensity was lower than the seismic intensity, but there was a lower degree of dispersion. (2) Among high-voltage electrical equipment, the transformers were most vulnerable to damage and they had some damage even under lower instrumental intensity. More damage would be produced when the instrumental intensity reached VIII or above; the second most vulnerable equipment was the circuit breaker, and the damage was most likely to occur when the instrument intensity was IX or above . (3) The damage rate curves of lightning arresters, current mutual inductors, voltage mutual inductors and isolating switches were relatively close to each other and the damage probability was the highest when the instrumental intensity was about X.

Keywords

substation; high voltage electrical equipment; damage rate; instrumental seismic intensity; statistical curve

Subject

Engineering, Civil Engineering

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