TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of trip current monitoring system for circuit breaker condition assessment
AU - Stephen, B.
AU - Strachan, S.M.
AU - McArthur, S.D.J.
AU - McDonald, J.R.
AU - Hamilton, K.
N1 - The attached paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in IET Generation Transmission and Distribution and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. The copy of record is available at the IET Digital Library.
PY - 2007/1
Y1 - 2007/1
N2 - A distributed system, which supports circuit breaker maintenance and asset management, is described. It uses a client/server architecture for propagating expert knowledge from switchgear maintenance experts directly to maintenance operatives for on-site circuit breaker condition assessment and diagnosis. Prior research in the field of distribution level circuit breaker condition monitoring has shown the trip coil of a circuit breaker yields a current profile that, when tripped, can subsequently be interpreted as an indicator of plant health. Exploiting existing circuit breaker test equipment, a centralised archive of asset condition is built from routine tests permitting experts to examine trends in the data and pass their definition of the operating conditions to personnel in the field. This provides diagnostic support to engineers in the field. The system is currently in use as the subject of a pilot study conducted by SP PowerSystems intended to improve its ongoing maintenance and asset management activities.
AB - A distributed system, which supports circuit breaker maintenance and asset management, is described. It uses a client/server architecture for propagating expert knowledge from switchgear maintenance experts directly to maintenance operatives for on-site circuit breaker condition assessment and diagnosis. Prior research in the field of distribution level circuit breaker condition monitoring has shown the trip coil of a circuit breaker yields a current profile that, when tripped, can subsequently be interpreted as an indicator of plant health. Exploiting existing circuit breaker test equipment, a centralised archive of asset condition is built from routine tests permitting experts to examine trends in the data and pass their definition of the operating conditions to personnel in the field. This provides diagnostic support to engineers in the field. The system is currently in use as the subject of a pilot study conducted by SP PowerSystems intended to improve its ongoing maintenance and asset management activities.
KW - condition monitoring
KW - switchgear testing
KW - maintenance engineering
KW - circuit breakers
KW - distribution networks
KW - client-server systems
KW - expert systems
KW - computerised monitoring
KW - power engineering computing
KW - trip current monitoring system design
KW - circuit breaker condition assessment
KW - distributed system
KW - switchgear maintenance
KW - management activities
U2 - 10.1049/iet-gtd:20060074
DO - 10.1049/iet-gtd:20060074
M3 - Article
SN - 1751-8687
VL - 1
SP - 89
EP - 95
JO - IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
JF - IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
IS - 1
ER -