Icing Degree Characterization of Insulators Based on the Equivalent Collision Coefficient of Standard Rotating Conductors

Zhijin Zhang, Yi Zhang, Xingliang Jiang, Jianlin Hu and Qin Hu
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Zhijin Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, China
Yi Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, China
Xingliang Jiang: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, China
Jianlin Hu: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, China
Qin Hu: State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, China

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 12, 1-14

Abstract: Due to the complex structure of insulators, it is difficult to use parameters such as icicle length or ice thickness of an insulator to directly characterize the degree of icing of an insulator. Rotating conductors are widely used in monitoring icing degree on insulators, but the relationship between ice degree on the insulator and the rotating conductor has not been verified. In this paper, the water droplets collision coefficient α 1 was put forward to characterize icing degree, and a new numerical calculation model where α 1 on different regions of an insulator is calculated was proposed. Combining the freezing fraction α 3 of the insulator and rotating conductor, the equivalent relationship of ice weight between insulator and rotating conductor can be established, which was afterwards verified through the icing tests. The test results indicate that ice weight on an insulator increases linearly with the increase of ice weight on the rotating conductor, and the model proposed in this paper can reflect actual results more accurately than previous models. In such cases, the method of using ice weight on a rotating conductor to predict that on an insulator based on the model proposed in this paper could be widely adopted.

Keywords: insulator; standard rotating conductor; water droplets collision coefficient; regional segmentation calculation method; icing degree (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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