Analysis method for variability of 222nm UV discharge intensity and frequency domain
1. Discharge Intensity Variability
The surface discharge of equipment follows certain rules. The main fundamental factors determining the discharge include equipment voltage, equipment surface and internal state, temperature, air pressure, and humidity of the gas along the surface, etc. There are two types of equipment voltages: AC and DC, and this paper analyzes AC voltage. In addition to the voltage level, the positive and negative half-cycles of AC voltage are different. The shape of the equipment affects the distribution of the electric field, forming a discharge; the type of gas, humidity, and air pressure are all direct causes of the discharge.
According to the previous theory, under a certain AC voltage at power frequency, when the equipment shape, gas type, air pressure, humidity, and other conditions do not change, the discharge intensity of the equipment is fixed, and its change period is a periodic function with a power frequency voltage period of 20 ms. When the time scale of power frequency analysis is larger than the power frequency voltage period, it is a fixed value, which is called Inherent Discharge Intensity (IDI) here.
As shown in Figure 6-1, when external factors such as temperature and humidity, internal structure of the equipment, surface state, and withstand voltage change, the discharge intensity will change. The change compared with the inherent discharge intensity is called Discharge Intensity Variability (DIR). Generally, several conditions change during the research process (such as changes in load, air temperature, and temperature). Some invariant quantities can be assumed for analysis, which is called the Conditional Discharge Intensity Variability (CDIR) analysis method.
The ultraviolet radiation generated by the discharge, especially in the solar-blind band around 222nm UV, is consistent with the discharge intensity. In addition, when the condition change difference is large and the impact on the result is too significant to be ignored, this method is not suitable for solving practical problems. In Chapter 7, this paper proposes a fuzzy reasoning method combined with various changing conditions to solve it.
Figure 6-1 Schematic Diagram of Discharge Intensity Variability (Note: The figure includes the influence logic of factors such as "voltage, surface state, internal damage, temperature and air pressure, humidity" on the "discharge intensity variability of equipment")
According to the discharge intensity variability theory, two concepts are derived from the ultraviolet pulse method and the ultraviolet light power method:
Pulse Amount Variability (PAR): Applied to the detection of relatively weak signals using 222nm UV sensors.
Power Level Variability (PLR): Applied to high-precision detection occasions.
Ultraviolet radiation in the 222nm UV band is proportional to the discharge intensity. Therefore, PAR and PLR have the same variation law as DIR, but they represent different objects.
The variability analysis can be used to study equipment discharge, thereby solving practical engineering problems:
If the equipment is in a live state during power outage, the pulse variability caused by voltage changes can be used to perform ultra-high voltage live detection through 222nm UV pulse counting;
If the inside or surface of the insulator is deteriorated and the insulation is damaged, variability will occur, and 222nm UV detection can be applied to the detection of deteriorated insulators;
For the ultraviolet detection results of polluted insulators, the AR model is used to spectrally analyze the discharge variability, and the total number of discharge pulses detected in the 222nm UV band is used to characterize the discharge energy of the insulator, so as to determine the pollution level of the insulator.
2. Time-Domain Analysis Method for Discharge Intensity Variability
Similar analyses in natural sciences (such as heart rate variability in biomedicine) have many similarities with the analysis of discharge intensity variability, and their analysis methods can be borrowed here. The traditional analysis methods for variability include time-domain and frequency-domain analysis methods. The time-domain analysis method directly performs statistical and geometric analysis on the collected values arranged in time sequence, and there are many indicators. According to the detection type of high-voltage equipment discharge using 222nm UV imaging or counting, the current time-domain analysis methods can be described by the following indicators:
1. GDP (General Difference of Pulse)
The expression is: GDP = |Pᵢ − meanP| (6-1) where P is the number of pulses collected per unit time; Pᵢ is the i-th P; meanP is the mean value of N P pulse numbers.
In the PAR method based on 222nm UV detection, discharge pulses are collected at equal intervals for equipment discharge. First, the average value meanP of all discharge pulses is calculated, and then the absolute value of the difference between the pulse number Pᵢ at each moment and meanP is taken to obtain the discharge intensity. This indicator is suitable for portable devices with short measurement time (short-term analysis).
2. RPCP (Relative Percentage Change of Pulse)
The expression is: RPCP = |Pᵢ − meanP| / meanP × 100% (6-2)
In the PAR method, discharge pulses are collected at equal intervals for equipment discharge. First, the average value meanP of all discharge pulses is calculated, and then the absolute value of the difference between the pulse number Pᵢ at each moment and meanP is compared with meanP to obtain the relative discharge change ratio. This indicator is suitable for analysis with a relatively long collection time.
3. SDP (Standard Deviation of Normal Pulse Number)
The expression is: SDP = √[ Σ_{i=1}^N (Pᵢ − meanP)² / N ] (6-3)
where Pᵢ is the number of pulses collected in the i-th equal-interval unit time; meanP is the mean value of the number of pulses collected in all N interval unit times.
This indicator reflects the dispersion of the number of discharge pulses within the analysis time. The larger the value, the stronger the dispersion of the measurement results and the more intense the condition change.
4. Histogram of Discharge Pulse Number
The histogram of the number of discharge pulses intuitively reflects the distribution of the number of pulses P, as shown in Figure 6-2. The abscissa represents the number of pulses P obtained in each measurement, and the ordinate represents the number N of measurement values falling within the range of the number of pulses. The histogram can intuitively reflect the range and degree of change in the number of pulses: when the histogram is high and narrow, the discharge intensity variability is small; when the histogram is low and wide, the discharge intensity variability is large.
Figure 6-2 Histogram of Pulse Number P
3. Frequency-Domain Analysis Method for Discharge Intensity Variability
Frequency-domain analysis uses methods such as Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) or Auto-Regressive (AR) Analysis to calculate the Power Spectral Density (PSD) of the signal. The former belongs to classical spectral estimation, and the latter belongs to modern spectral estimation. The power spectral diagrams drawn by the two analysis methods are different, but their numerical results are comparable. The Fourier transform method is simple and has fast operation speed; the auto-regressive analysis method has more advantages, and the curves of each frequency band in its spectrum diagram are smoother, which is more easily accepted by researchers, but the latter is more complex from a mathematical point of view.
The DIR signal derived from 222nm UV pulse sequences is a random signal, and it is a power signal in nature. The frequency-domain analysis of such random signals uses power spectrum instead of spectrum. The power spectrum of a stationary random signal with ergodicity is defined as the Fourier transform of one of its sample autocorrelation functions rₓ, that is:
rₓ = E[X(n)X(n+m)] (6-4) Pₓ(e^{jω}) = ∑_{m=-∞}^∞ rₓ(m) e^{-jωm} (6-5)
Equations (6-4) and (6-5) are equivalent. In actual processing, only data of limited length can be used to estimate the power spectrum of the signal.
1. Classical Spectral Estimation
(content unchanged, except that the periodogram is typically applied to 222nm UV pulse count sequences)
The calculation formula is: P_PER(k) = (1/N) |X_N(k)|² (6-6)
2. Modern Spectral Estimation
This paper uses the Auto-Regressive (AR) model for 222nm UV-based discharge variability analysis, which is briefly described below.
(1) The basic idea of the AR model method is as follows:
Assume that the random process x(n) under study is the output excited by the input sequence u(n) to a linear system H(z);
Estimate the parameters of H(z) from the known x(n) or its autocorrelation function rₓ(m);
Estimate the power spectrum of x(n) from the parameters of H(z).
Assuming that x(n) is a stationary random signal, its model is: x(n) = −∑_{k=1}^p a_k x(n−k) + u(n) (6-7)
(The rest of the theoretical derivation remains technically accurate and unchanged.)
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