Numerical Analysis and Experimental Verification of Optical Fiber Composite Overhead Ground Wire (OPGW) Direct Current (DC) Ice Melting Dynamic Process Considering Gap Convection Heat Transfer

Shuang Wang (), Long Cheng, Bo Tang, Wangsheng Xu and Zheng Wang
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Shuang Wang: Hubei Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Power Transmission Line, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
Long Cheng: College of Electrical Engineering and New Energy, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
Bo Tang: Hubei Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Power Transmission Line, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China
Wangsheng Xu: China Southern Power Grid Extra High Voltage Power Transmission Company Guiyang Branch, Guiyang 550081, China
Zheng Wang: China Southern Power Grid Extra High Voltage Power Transmission Company Guiyang Branch, Guiyang 550081, China

Energies, 2025, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-23

Abstract: An accurate analysis of the dynamic process of ice melting in an optical fiber composite overhead ground wire (OPGW) is of great reference significance for the selection of an ice melting current and the formulation of an ice melting strategy. Existing analytical models for the dynamic process of DC ice melting in an OPGW ignore the gap convective heat transfer after the formation of the air gap between the ground wire and the ice layer, and lack the study of the dynamic process of the phase transition of the ice layer. To this end, a finite element model of the DC ice melting process of OPGW was established by introducing the mushy zone constant to consider the influence of the convective heat transfer in the gap, and at the same time, the apparent heat capacity method was used to simulate the changes of the physical property parameters of the melted ice layer. The dynamic process of the ice layer phase transition and OPGW temperature rise during ice melting are calculated, and the effects of the half-width of phase transition interval dT and the mushy zone constant A m on the DC ice melting process are summarized and analyzed. The accuracy of the OPGW DC ice melting model is verified by conducting DC ice melting experiments. The results show that during the ice melting process, the gap convection heat transfer mainly affects the temperature distribution of the air gap between the ice layer and the OPGW as well as the location of the phase transition interface, and the width of the air gap at the same height below the OPGW increases by about 3 mm after considering the gap convection; the half-width of phase transition interval, dT, mainly affects the location of the phase transition interface and the temperature rise of the modeled heat source, OPGW, while the mushy zone constant, A m , mainly affects the temperature distribution in the mushy zone, the air gap region. The elliptical phase transition cross-section formed by the OPGW DC ice melting experiment is consistent with the shape of the ice melting simulation model results, and the measured temperature rise curves of the OPGW during DC ice melting are in good agreement with the simulation results, with a maximum difference of about 3.5 K in temperature and 10 min in ice melting time, but the overall trend is consistent, all showing as increasing first and then decreasing.

Keywords: OPGW; DC ice melting; numerical simulation; apparent heat capacity method; gap convection heat transfer (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: 2025
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