Li, S.; Dou, L.; Li, H.; Li, Z.; Kang, Y. An Innovative Electromechanical Joint Approach for Contact Pair Fault Diagnosis of Oil-Immersed On-Load Tap Changer. Electronics2023, 12, 3573.
Li, S.; Dou, L.; Li, H.; Li, Z.; Kang, Y. An Innovative Electromechanical Joint Approach for Contact Pair Fault Diagnosis of Oil-Immersed On-Load Tap Changer. Electronics 2023, 12, 3573.
Li, S.; Dou, L.; Li, H.; Li, Z.; Kang, Y. An Innovative Electromechanical Joint Approach for Contact Pair Fault Diagnosis of Oil-Immersed On-Load Tap Changer. Electronics2023, 12, 3573.
Li, S.; Dou, L.; Li, H.; Li, Z.; Kang, Y. An Innovative Electromechanical Joint Approach for Contact Pair Fault Diagnosis of Oil-Immersed On-Load Tap Changer. Electronics 2023, 12, 3573.
Abstract
To address the problem of limited fault diagnosis accuracy in oil-immersed on-load tap changers (OLTC), this paper introduces a novel fault diagnosis method that combines the analysis of mechanical vibration signals and high-frequency current signals. The proposed approach aims to enhance the accuracy of fault diagnosis. To begin, an experimental platform is constructed to simulate the OLTC contact. Mechanical vibration signals and high-frequency current signals are collected from the testing platform under various operating states. These signals are then subjected to wavelet packet transform for denoising, followed by correlation analysis to capture the relationship between signals in different states. Based on these preliminary steps, the features of the signals are extracted and analyzed using ensemble empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert-Huang transform. Subsequently, a support vector machine (SVM) is employed to analyze both the mechanical vibration signal and high-frequency current signal, enabling the classification of the OLTC contact state. The results demonstrate that the combination of characteristic analysis of mechanical vibration signals and high-frequency current signals provides a more comprehensive reflection of the actual OLTC contact state under different conditions. Through the SVM classification, the error between the predicted values and real values of the two types of signals remains below 10%, validating the efficiency and feasibility of the proposed method for fault diagnosis of OLTC contacts. These research findings serve as a reliable foundation for the diagnosis of operational states of on-site oil-immersed on-load tap changers, offering valuable insights for practical applications.
Keywords
contact pair; on-load tap changer; Hilbert-Huang transform; support vector machine; electromechanical combination; fault diagnosis
Subject
Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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