Experiment on Leader Propagation Characteristics of Air Gaps in UHVDC Transmission Towers Under Positive Switching Impulse Voltages

Rapid developments in EHV/UHV transmission systems require a deeper understanding of the mechanism of long air gap discharge.Leader propagation is one of the main processes in long gap breakdown.In this paper,the leader propagation characteristics of real size±800 kV UHVDC transmission tower gaps under positive switching impulse voltages(185/2290μs)are investigated.An integrated observation platform consisting of an impulse voltage divider,a coaxial shunt,a high-speed video camera,and a set of integrated optical electric field sensors(IOES),is established.The waveforms of impulse voltage,discharge current,electric field variation at specific positions,and time-resolved photographs of discharge morphology are recorded.Axial leader velocity and the relationship between leader advancements and injected charge are obtained.The typical value of leader stable propagation velocity is 1.7–2.2 cm/μs,which varies slightly with the gap length and applied voltage amplitude.The leader velocity in the re-illumination process is much higher,and is seen as varying from 5 cm/μs to 30 cm/μs,with an average value around 10 cm/μs.The charge in leader channel per unit length is 20–40μC/m,which illustrates a near-direct proportion relationship between discharge current and leader velocity.The observed parameters are important for further simulation of the tower gap breakdown processes.

特高压设备对高压测试的挑战(英文)

The increase of voltage level for AC and DC transmission systems requires some changes in the high voltage testing for Ultra High Voltage(UHV) equipment.After a short description of the coordination work in the standardization bodies the requirements for UHV equipment are mentioned.The main points concerning high voltage testing of UHV equipment are the impulse shape of standard lightning impulse voltage,the evaluation of the test voltage for impulses with oscillations or overshoot near the peak and the time parameter of switching impulses.The linearity check of the measuring devices,the proximity effect,the wet tests and the atmospheric correction factors are further points to be discussed concerning testing of UHV equipment.

Optimal control for a class of impulsive switched systems

In this paper,an optimal switch-time control problem is solved for a class of impulsive switched autonomous systems.The considered systems jump at the switching times,and the sequence of active subsystems is pre-specified.The control variables consist of the impulse times and a set of scalars which determine the jump amplitudes.Moreover,the subsystems do not require a refractory period,which can bring more generality.Using the calculus of variation,the partial derivatives of the cost with respect to the control variables are derived,based on which the optimality conditions are given.Meanwhile,the obtained formulas can be used in some gradient descent algorithms to locate the optimal control variables.Finally,the viability of the proposed method is illustrated through two numerical examples.

Fault Detection for a Class of Impulsive Switched Systems

The problem of fault detection for a class of nonlinear impulsive switched systems is investigated in this paper. Fault detection filters are designed such that the augmented systems are stable, and the residual error signal generated by the filters guarantees the H∞ performance for disturbances and faults. Sufficient conditions for the design of fault detection(FD) filters are presented by linear matrix inequalities. Moreover, the filter gains are characterized according to a solution of a convex optimization. Finally, an example derived from a pulse-width-modulation-driven boost converter is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the FD design approach.

Input-to-State Stability for Impulsive Switched Singular Systems with Mismatched Disturbances

This work investigates the input-to-state stability(ISS)problem for impulsive switched singular systems(ISSSs)with mismatched disturbances.In this paper,‘disturbance’is a general concept that includes model uncertainty,unknown system dynamic,external disturbance,etc.The modified uncertainty and disturbance estimator(UDE)-based control method is presented for singular systems and ISSSs,a virtual control is introduced to offset the effects of mismatched disturbances.On the basis of a discontinuous multiple Lyapunov functional and admissible edge-dependent average dwell time(AED-ADT)method,several sufficient conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs)are obtained to ensure that the closed-loop systems are regular,impulse-free and ISS.Finally,two examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed results.