Showing papers by "Roberto Candela published in 2019"
TL;DR: This paper shows the device that has been set up in Prysmian Electronics with some experimental phases showing the effectiveness of the proposed solution and the further developments expected.
Abstract: In this paper, a new low-cost device is proposed for fault location in power distribution system. The device is part of a system that should include several units installed in couples at the two ends of medium voltage (MV) cable lines. Their low cost justifies a widespread installation of these devices, moreover other functionalities could be considered so as to enrich the potential of the system for MV cables monitoring and asset management. The system exploits a two-end traveling wave technique, low complexity, and low-cost solutions both for the analog front end as well as for the communication infrastructure. A LoRa network is indeed considered as wireless modulation technique perfectly suited when communication links with three characteristics are needed: low power, low bit rate, and long range. This paper shows the device that has been set up in Prysmian Electronics with some experimental phases showing the effectiveness of the proposed solution and the further developments expected.
20 citations
01 Oct 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new DCP test on a different insulating material, such as the XLPE, and the obtained patterns and the acquired data have been evaluated in order to validate the DCP approach as a new method for PDs measure under constant stress.
Abstract: The aim of the present work is to evaluate the PDs behavior by stressing a specimen with a new type of waveform named DCP. This waveform was proposed by the authors in a previous work with the aim to overcome the main issues of PDs under DC stress. In the previous work PDs test on Kapton specimen was performed. In this paper, we propose a new DCP test on a different insulating material, such as the XLPE. The obtained patterns and the acquired data have been evaluated in order to validate the DCP approach as a new method for PDs measure under constant stress. The behavior of the XLPE material has been reported and compared with the former measures obtained for Kapton material.
3 citations
01 Oct 2019
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical approach is offered to calibrate the heat exchange boundary conditions to apply to a sample during PEA space charge measurements, which aims to reproduce in mini-cables the same operative electric field levels reached in full size HVDC cables.
Abstract: The PEA method is currently widespread used for space charge measurements in mini-cables in order to qualify the behavior of semicon-dielectric-semicon compound under electric and thermal stress. The main goal of this research is to quantitatively evaluate the relationship between the thermal boundary conditions applied to cables or mini-cables and the maximum local electric field due to the accumulated space charge. Hitherto, several research groups have obtained thermal gradients over the dielectric’s radius heating the conductor by Joule effect due to an induced current. In this paper, a numerical approach is offered to calibrate the heat exchange boundary conditions to apply to a sample during PEA space charge measurements. This method aims to reproduce in mini-cables the same operative electric field levels reached in full size HVDC cables.
1 citations