Understanding offline testing and condition

monitoring results for bushings

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Dr. Tony McGrail
Solutions Director: Asset Management & Monitoring Technology
Doble Engineering

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 Bushings

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 When bushings go bad

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 Introduction

• The aim of this presentation is to review

• The basics of bushing offline testing
• Motivations
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condition monitoring
• Examples of bushing saves
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• Some of the features which appear in good monitoring applications.
• We have successful bushing saves from many locations, some
of which have been presented at the International Conference
of Doble Clients; full papers available on request.

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 Motivation: Industry Experience

• A technical paper by Sokolov and Vanin at the 1997 International

Conference of Doble Clients1 noted results of a survey:
• …irrespective of their geographical location or differences in design, high-voltage
bushings remain one of the weakest components and may have been the cause of up to
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30% of all of the large transformer failures. Because of preventive maintenance, the
number of defective bushings removed from service annually is ten times the number of
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failed bushings.
• CIGRE Working Group A2.43:
• A failure of any of the bushings results in a transformer failure as well. According to
various researches, bushings cause 5 to 50 % of the total number of transformer
failures, often followed by transformer damages, fires, huge collateral damage and
ecological incidents2.

1: “Evaluation and Identification of Typical Defects and Failure Modes in 110-750 Kv Bushings”, V. Sokolov & V. Vanin, 64th International Conference
of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 1997
2: CIGRE Technical Brochure 755 “Transformer Bushing Reliability” 2019
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 Motivations: safety, financial, reliability, management
• All assets will fail – it’s a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’:
• We can prevent failures if we have adequate warning of deterioration
• Regular offline testing could give such warning
• But if you only test every 6 or 10 or 12 years, you may miss a few failures
• Bushing failure usually leads to transformer failure1,2:
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• The results may be catastrophic – safety impacts severe
• Business
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interruption costs and environmental clean-up costs may greatly exceed asset
replacement costs
• Appropriate monitoring may prevent failures:
• Detect and diagnose failure modes and have a planned response!
• ISO 55001 (2014): Asset Management
• Section 9: Performance Evaluation
• Monitoring, measurement, analysis, audit, review, improve

1: “Evaluation and Identification of Typical Defects and Failure Modes in 110-750 Kv Bushings”, V. Sokolov & V. Vanin, 64th International Conference
of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 1997
2: CIGRE Technical Brochure 755 “Transformer Bushing Reliability” 2019
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 Motivation: some failure modes

• As the insulation deteriorates, the bushing will eventually fail

• Electrical stress will accelerate ‘natural’ deterioration
• What can cause deterioration? Some modes include:
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• Damaged outer covers (porcelain or other material) allowing ingress of
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moisture/contamination
• Damage during storage, from animals, vandalism etc
• Manufacturing defects which provide uneven electrical stress
• Overheating, leading to?
• Symptoms?
• What can we measure and what do the measurements mean?

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 Motivation: Bushings and Timescales to Failure

• Bushings generally have two distinct failure mode timescales:

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• ‘Rapid Onset’: found in Trench COT(A) bushings where deterioration may become
evident over a few hours2

1: “Chronicling the Degradation of a 345kV GE Type U Bushing”, R. Wancour et al, 76th International Conference of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 2009
2: “Condition Monitoring in the Real World”, K. Wyper et al, 80th International Conference of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 2013

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 Motivation: Identify Failure Modes to Prevent Failure

• A bushing allows a current to pass through a barrier

• Usually, a conductor at elevated voltages and a grounded barrier
• If the insulation deteriorates, the bushing may be compromised and then fail
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Doble Client Conference paper:
• “Bushing Monitoring – What We Can Measure And Implications For Deterioration Detection”
• Paper discusses thermography/IR, PD, current/phase, power factor and capacitance etc
• Measuring parameters which relate to the deterioration makes sense
• As we’re interested in the deterioration of insulation,.
• We can measure currents/voltages and then derive other parameters
1: CIGRE Technical Brochure 755 “Transformer Bushing Reliability” 2019

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 IEEE Standards

• IEEE Std C57.19.00™ - IEEE Standard General Requirements and

Test Procedure for Power Apparatus Bushings
• IEEE Std C57.19.01™ - IEEE Standard Performance Characteristics
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and Dimensions for Outdoor Apparatus Bushings.
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• IEEE Guide C57.19.100™ - IEEE Guide for Application of Power
Apparatus Bushings.
• IEEE Std 4™ - IEEE Standard Techniques for High Voltage Testing.
• IEEE C57.143™ - IEEE Guide for Application for Monitoring
Equipment to Liquid-Immersed Transformers and Components

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 Inside a bushing… much can go wrong

Bushings are complex devices!

Conductive Layer (foil)

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Kraft Paper
Conductive Layer (foil)

Conductor & Condenser

Winding Tube

The conductive layers even out the voltage stress

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 Power Factor: Offline applied voltage & measured current

We measure applied voltage and leakage currents very accurately: magnitude & phase.
Measured Voltage
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Pure inductors/capacitors have
Applied Voltage:
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a phase difference of 90o
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between current & voltage

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Bushing 1

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Measured Voltage Measured Current

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-1.5
Current/Voltage phase difference
Measured Current

Leakage
Current The variation from 90o is a measure of insulation quality:
the power factor. A variation of 0.1o is significant change.
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 Leakage Current

• Bushing insulation is not perfect:

• There is a capacitive/resistive leakage which flows to ground
• Each bushing will have its own leakage current depending on:
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• System voltage driving the current
• Bushing
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• Variation in the leakage current may thus indicate:
• Variation in applied voltage
• Variation in bushing characteristics
• We need to identify the root cause of variation!
• Which we can do – and thus save bushings from failure

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 Interpreting offline bushing test results
• Measurement data and derived data

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 Interpreting offline bushing test results
• Population analysis: does it look bad?

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https://www.transformer-technology.com/community-hub/technical-articles/1541-managing-bushings-from-statistics-to-
singularities-where-to-focus-tony-mcgrail-byline-transformer-technology.html
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 Offline v. Online
IEEE C57.143: “IEEE Guide for Application for Monitoring Equipment to Liquid-Immersed
Transformers and Components”

Abstract: Identification of the key parameters that can be monitored for obtaining
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an indication of the condition of liquid-immersed transformers is covered by this
guide. It also covers risk/benefit analysis, sensor application, and monitoring
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systems application.

Keywords: IEEE C57.143, liquid-immersed transformers, transformer monitoring

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 Monitoring: Parameters

• There are several parameters which may be monitored to indicate

deterioration:
• Leakage current: which allows derivation of power factor, capacitance and
harmonic content
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• Temperature – but at which point(s) on the bushing?
• EMI/RFI: allows detection and diagnostics of partial discharge (PD): this may be a
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analysis as PD signals propagate extensively
Phase H1 Phase H2 Phase H3
System H1Volts
System H1 Voltage System H1Volts
System H2 Voltage System H1Volts
System H3 Voltage

H1 H2 H3
Bushing Bushing Bushing

H1 H2 H3
Leakage Leakage Leakage
Current Current Current

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 Ideal 3 phase system – balanced voltages, currents etc

Phase X2
• Relative phase angles all equal
• X1->X2 = 120o
• X2->X3 = 120o
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o • X3->X1 = 120o
Phase X1
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120
• Magnitudes all equal
120o • |X1| = |X2| = |X3|

• Applies to system voltages, currents

including leakage currents
• Sum of currents/voltages is, in theory,
Phase X3
zero
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 In a perfect world: leakage currents are identical

The world is not perfect… system voltage magnitude and phase variations are usually present.
This chart shows leakage current
magnitude for each of three bushings
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in a set: the magnitudes vary over
time, and also vary relative to each
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other

This chart shows relative phase of

currents for two of three bushings in a
set: each should be 120o. We have
normalized to 0o so we can easily
measure variation from ‘ideal’.
The three relative phase angles sum to zero – all information is available in
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 In a perfect world – 3 balanced Phases Sum to Zero

• Sum Current can be a detector, but system variations mean too many false positives
• Doble moved on from this ~20 years ago: look at individual currents
The sum current chart is available in Doble PRIME for ‘old time sake’…
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Case A: is this bad? Case B: and this? Case B: Getting Better? Case B: Bushing Confused?

The sum should be zero: the cases here are false positives!
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 In a perfect world – 3 balanced Phases Sum to Zero
The sum current chart is available in Doble PRIME for ‘old time sake’…
LV Sum Curr Scatter
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-0.5 -0.4 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1
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 How much phase change would a ‘bad bushing’ give?

Phase 2 • Relative phase angles NOT all equal

• X1->X2 = 120o
• X2->X3 = <120o
• X3->X1 = >120o
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• A variation of 0.2 o or less would indicate a
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>120o How do we find this
against the ‘noisy’ system
voltage variation?
A simple way is to use
Phase 3 averaging.

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 Power Factor: Offline, Online Relative and Online True

• Three measurements – why are they not all the same?

• In offline tests we supply the voltage and can control it very precisely
• In online
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measurements have to find a way to find the voltage
• The instrument transformer (voltage transformer) is ALSO in the measurement
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• We measure both relative power factor (RPF) and true power factor
(TPF) simultaneously

• We can identify either bad bushings or bad IT/VTs

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 What to measure?

Capture raw sine-waves for every current/voltage reading - these are then used to calculate:
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Leakage current rms: 7 days shown here Phase angle: 7 days shown here
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For each bushing we can then calculate averaged values: daily, weekly, monthly

Power factor Capacitance

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 What alerts do we need?

• For each parameter we expect 3 levels of alert:

• INFO, WARNING, ACTION
• That means 3 alerts for each parameter:
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• Phase angle
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• Daily, weekly, monthly Capacitance
• Daily, weekly, monthly Power factor
• Total Harmonic Distortion (calculated with current RMS and Phase)
• Plus an ‘instant’ alert on any parameter should it exceed a specified
value – removes any averaging effects which could delay an alert

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 Power Factors: Offline v. Online Relative (RPF) v. Online True (TPF)
Offline test
Online monitoring – we do not control the
Applied Voltage:
voltage: it becomes a source of variation True Power Factor:
from a test set

Phase H1 Phase H2 Phase H3

Bushing and
Instrument Transformer
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Bushing
System H1Volts
System H1 Voltage System H1Volts
System H2 Voltage System H1Volts
System H3 Voltage

both included
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System
Voltage
Leakage Bushing Bushing Bushing
Current
Energized Bus Bar

H1 H2 H3
Bushing
Leakage Leakage Leakage
Measured Voltage, Measured Current Current Current Current Instrument
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Transformer
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Voltage

We measure both RPF and TPF together

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0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360 Source Leakage
-0.5 Current

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Measured Voltage Measured Current

so can identify a bad bushing or a bad IT
Current/Voltage phase difference
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true-tony-mcgrail-byline-transformer-technology.html
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 True Power Factor: is it a bad bushing or bad VT?

We measure Relative and True simultaneously

True Power Factor:
H1 Bushing VT 1 H1 & VT1 are good
TPF: Bushing H2 or VT2 bad
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So: bad VT
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H2 Bushing VT 2 H2 &/or VT2 is bad

Relative Power Factor

True Power Factor:
Bushings: H1, H2, H3 H3 Bushing VT 3 H3 & VT3 are good
are good

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 Cases

• We have had many cases over the years, several of which

have been shared at the Doble Client Conference and
elsewhere.
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• The cases presented here are examples of different bushing
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and failure modes
• They follow the three C’s of condition monitoring:
• Control the measurement
• Understand the context
• Draw appropriate conclusions

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 Trench Bushing: learning from the past

Monitoring Trench COT bushings, known to have a catastrophic failure mode,

on >65 transmission transformers at up to 345kV1. Current rose rapidly for one
bushing, generating a top level ACTION alert. The operators had a written and
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requiring switching out and offline testing after an ACTION alert.
Presenter Name As a result of applying
the policy a likely
catastrophic failure
was avoided. (Detailed
analyses on next slide.)

1: “Condition Monitoring in the Real World”, K. Wyper et al, 80th International Conference of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 2013
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 Trench Bushing: close the feedback loop - forensics
Bushing construction A map of how far through the
Burning at a foil
and foil layout. edge at a point foils the deterioration had
corresponding to progressed. Offline tests
the red x in the confirmed the incipient
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construction.
failure.
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1: “Condition Monitoring in the Real World”, K. Wyper et al, 80th International Conference of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 2013
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 GE Type U Bushing: Graceful failure

Bushing monitoring was used to identify a deteriorating bushing.

Alert limits and response plans were put in place before the bushings were returned to
service after a maintenance outage.
The rise in power factor was detected and failure averted. Forensic details in the paper1.
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1: “Chronicling the Degradation of a 345kV GE Type U Bushing”, R. Wancour et al, 76th International Conference of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 2009
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 Westinghouse O+ Bushing

A Westinghouse O+ Bushing generated

alerts showing rapid deterioration. The
ACTION alert followed ~13 hours after
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the INFO alert.

Presenter Name Power factor for one bushing rose sharply,

and its leakage current rose by ~0.6mA, or
about 5%. Offline tests were performed
confirming the deterioration: a 9x rise in
power factor.
An incipient failure was
thus avoided.
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 True Power factor: Phase by phase
The Instrument Transformer Actual Reference Voltages and Measured Current
is part of the measurement 1.5

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Measured Voltage, Measured Current

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Applied Voltage: -0.5

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from the system
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Measured Voltage Measured Current

Energized Bus Bar We measure the overall PHASE SHIFT

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Instrument Bushing
Transformer The resulting phase shift we measure is a
Voltage
Reference
Leakage combination of the phase shift of everything between
Current
the voltage test point and the bushing test tap.
The power factor is a true representation of
everything between the measurement points
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 Using a voltage reference helps remove doubt

RMS Leakage Current and True Voltage Daily True Power Factor and Capacitance
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X1 System Voltage (kV) X2 System Voltage (kV) X3 System Voltage (kV) X1 Daily True Power Factor (%) X2 Daily True Power Factor (%) X3 Daily True Power Factor (%)
X1 Leakage Current (mA) X2 Leakage Current (mA) X3 Leakage Current (mA) X1 Daily Capacitance (TPF) (pF) X2 Daily Capacitance (TPF) (pF) X3 Daily Capacitance (TPF) (pF)

True Power Factor is calculated for the bushing/IT

combination on individual phases
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 Anomaly? 13kV Tertiary Bushing: gets better?
• Tertiary bushing with both Relative and True Power factor
Y1 Bushing VT 1

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Y2 Bushing VT 2

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Normal Measurement
Y3 Bushing VT 3

Anomalous Measurement
1. “Negative Power Factor of Doble Insulation Test Specimens (An Analysis)”, D. Kopaczynski, S.J. Manifase, 55th International Conference of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 1987
2. “Review of Negative Power Factor Test Results And Case Study Analysis”, L. Pong, 70 th International Conference of Doble Clients, Boston, USA, 2002
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 RPF and TPF (Relative and True Power Factors)

Tertiary bushings – RPF + TPF

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Chart has 6 traces: RPF and TPF for each tertiary bushing
• The two which rise then fall are for the same single bushing
• The offset between the RPF and TPF traces is due to the original TPF set up
• Both RPF and TPF showing a rise and fall means that the bushing is the source of variation
• Scenarios for possible bushing deterioration were identified – moisture ingress being most likely
• Forensic analysis of the bushing confirmed moisture ingress through a cracked oil fill-plug gasket
• All three bushings were replaced as a set

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 PD: Partial Discharge - basics
• Partial Discharge is a consequence of insulation deterioration
• Early detection and trending allows for appropriate intervention in
transformers, rotating machines and other assets discharge

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Detection and trend over time – statistics of PD severity
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Use advanced diagnostic tools to support decisions RFI
propagation

‘Detailed diagnostics may require context for

analysis and expert support’ CIGRE TB 660
“There is desire to use PD… but also fear.” Utility Engineer
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 Bushing PD
• Measuring PD via the bushing test tap is useful – if you can make sense
of the data:
• Statistical analysis to indicate severity of PD and support trending
• Time resolved and Phase resolved patterns to support diagnosis
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• Detailed PD analysis can get expensive for multichannel synchronous
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propagate easily and can be detected far away from the
source
• Who will be looking at the data? Check to avoid false positives?
• Who will set alert levels? Who will respond? Who will verify veracity?
• Example at a generator/GSU set with multiple sensors… PD is on the iso-
phase bus, nothing to do with the bushings
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 Bushing PD

Generator Bushing Tap Bushing

coupler Mini-HFCT Leakage Current

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Neutral In Tank
HFCT Antenna

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 Monitoring Successes: Common Theme

• What we see in successful condition monitoring cases includes:

• Setting expectations: for the monitor, the measurement to be made and
the organization
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• For each
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for leakage current magnitude, for power factor and for capacitance
• Identify/set limits for each level of alert
• Have a planned response for each alert on each bushing
• Ensure the plan is agreed and ‘written up’ – names, timescales, actions
• When an alert comes in: FOLLOW THE PLAN!

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 In Conclusion
Bushing Testing is useful – but highly intermittent!
• Standards exist for analysis of data
Bushing Monitoring provides benefits:
• Bushing ‘saves’
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• Transformer ‘saves’
Needs some understanding of what the numbers mean:
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• Failure modes likely to be found in a bushing
• Symptoms of failure modes
• Data for detection of anomaly (not all anomalies are bad)
• Analyses to alert: who, why, what to do, by when
Need the organization to embed monitoring in daily activities
What is common in successful cases is an agreed response plan and decisive
action!

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 THANK YOU!

Questions? Comments? Feedback?

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Tony McGrail
[email protected]

“Always appreciate the opportunity to learn new things.”

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 Bonus case… Incoming alerts
• Legacy IDD installed ~2008; configured for hourly readings
• Some DAQ & BTA issues addressed in the field
• 3 Levels of escalating Alert:
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• Info, Warning & Action
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BUSHING ID
ALERT! OR ALERT! ACKNOWLEDGED
CODE SET NAME LEVEL RECEIVED DATE/TIME STATUS DATE/TIME

24-6010 4 WARNING 12/14/2020 12:00 UNACKNOWLEDGED

14-6010 14 WARNING 12/14/2020 10:00 UNACKNOWLEDGED
22-5010 4 INFO 12/14/2020 5:00 UNACKNOWLEDGED

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 Transformer Nameplate & History

• 1972, GE Pittsfield, 980 MVA, 345-23.75kV, 3phase, Y-delta

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ABB Type T Bushing 4 Bushing 5 Bushing 6

Cap %PF Cap %PF Cap %PF
Nameplate 1381 0.32 1351 0.31 1379 0.31
Measured 1374.9 0.3 1336.1 0.31 1371.5 0.3

ABB Type T Bushing 14 Bushing 15 Bushing 16

Cap %PF Cap %PF Cap %PF
Nameplate 1355 0.33 1361 0.33 1375 0.32
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 Data: Power Factor and Capacitance
X 4-6 Bushings Daily/Weekly/Monthly PFactor X 14-16 Bushings Daily/Weekly/Monthly PFactor
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X16 Cap Dly X16 Cap Wk X16 Cap Mn
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 Data: Leakage Currents and Relative Phase
X 4-5-6 Bushings rms Current X 14-15-16 Bushings rms Current
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X 4-5-6 Bushings Phase Deltas
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X 14-15-16 Bushings rms Current 7.5 127 X 14-15-16 Bushings Phase Deltas
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4 mA Tap 5 mA Tap 6 mA 115 X4-> X5 X6-> X4 X5-> X6
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X4-> X5 X6-> X4 X5-> X6 X14-> X15 X16-> X14 X15-> X16

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 Discussion
• What questions to ask?
• Is it the bushings?

EDIT
• Any MASTER TEXT
other relevant data?STYLES
Presenter Name load, protection operation, weather, other…
• Temperature,
• Any maintenance data or family history?

• What’s the action???

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 DGA Data

EDIT MASTER TEXT STYLES

Presenter Name

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Signal

Tank
Conductor X1 Shield

EDIT MASTER TEXT STYLES

Bushing
Flange CHT CHL CL S CHS CHC C
O
IDD

HV LV HV
Presenter Name R
E

X2
Return
HO
Return

Signal

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 Bonus case… What does this mean?
X Bushings: two Phase Angles X Bushings rms current
124 244 12.5

123 243 12

122 242
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121 241

120 EDIT MASTER TEXT STYLES 240

11

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119 239

118 Presenter Name X238bushings Phase deltas 10

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X1 -> X2 123
X3 -> X2 X1 mA X2 mA X3 mA
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X1 -> X2 X3-> X1 X2-> X3

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