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Condition Monitoring of
Zinc Oxide Surge Arresters
Novizon1,2, Zulkurnain Abdul-Malek1, Nouruddeen Bashir1 and Aulia1,2
1Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM),
2University of Andalas (UNAND),
1Malaysia
2Indonesia

1. Introduction
Over voltages in power system may occur due to lightning, fault or switching operation.
These overvoltages could reach dangerous amplitudes for power system apparatus. To
protect the system electrical equipment and to guarantee an economic and reliable
operation, surge arresters are applied in almost all types of electrical power network.
Gapless zinc oxide (ZnO) surge arresters are widely used. The surge arresters are usually
connected between the phase and ground terminals. They limit the voltage level in
equipments such as transformers below the withstand voltage level.
Figure 1 shows the values of overvoltage which can be reached without the use of arrester in
per units. The time axis is divided into the range of lightning overvoltage in microsecond,
switching overvoltage in millisecond and temporary overvoltage in second. In the lightning
overvoltage and switching overvoltage range, the magnitude of overvoltage can reach
several per unit if the system is without arrester protection. Arrester could limit overvoltage
below withstand voltage of equipment. This phenomenon clearly shows the importance of
arresters for lightning overvoltage protection.

Fig. 1. Schematic representation of the magnitude of overvoltage

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In this chapter, signal processing using LabVIEW is presented to separate the resistive
leakage current from ZnO arrester leakage current using a novel technique called the Shifted
Current Method for the purpose of monitoring the degradation of ZnO surge arrester.

1.1 Zinc oxide surge arrester

The construction of ZnO surge arresters consist of a very simple structure. They basically
consist of an insulating housing which is made of porcelain or polymeric material, and the
inner active column, composed of the ZnO varistors as shown in Figure 2.

Fig. 2. The cross-section view of a polymeric insulated distribution class ZnO surge arrester
The ZnO varistor block elements are the main component of the ZnO surge arrester. They
provide the desired non-linear characteristics and present a strong relation with the
temperature (low current range). The non-linear resistivity is an inherent bulk property of
the composite ceramic resistor, which consists of mainly ZnO with relatively small amount
of several additives of other metal oxides such as Bi2 O3, CoO2, MnO3, and Sb2O3 (Eda, 1989).
These additives essentially determine the electric properties of the block arresters element.

1.2 Voltage current characteristics of ZnO varistor block

The ZnO surge arrester element is composed of high-purity ZnO, which is the major
constituent, and also slight amounts of some oxides of bismuth (Bi), cobalt (Co), manganese
(Mn), antimony (Sb), and etcetera. These are thoroughly mixed, granulated, formed (pressed
into a disc), specially treated to produce high-resistance layers on all sides of the element
and finally sintered at a high temperature of more than 1000°C.
The blend ratio of ZnO surge arrester and additives is not constant but is about 9:1 (Kobayashi,
1986). The microstructure of this element is clarified by a secondary electron image taken by
EMPA (Electron Probe Micro Analyzer). Figure 3 shows the secondary-electron image of the
element. As shown in Figure 3, fine ZnO grains of 1 to 10 µm size can be seen.
The intergranular layer comprises mainly of Bi2O3 and spinel (An7Sb2O12) distributed in the
grain boundary. The excellent voltage-current nonlinear characteristics of the element may
be attributable to the junction of the ZnO grain and the intergranular layer consisting mainly
of Bi2O3. While the specific resistivity of ZnO grain is 1 to 10 Ωcm, that of the intergranular
layer is as high as 1010 Ωcm and therefore almost all of the voltage applied to the element is
concentrated on this high-resistivity intergranular layer. This layer possesses such a non
ohmic characteristic that its resistance decreases suddenly at a certain voltage as the applied
voltage rises.

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Fig. 3. Secondary-electron image of the ZnO element (Kobayashi, 1986).

The voltage-current characteristic of this layer shows an excellent non linearity throughout
the range of 10-6 to 104 A. The nonlinearity of this element is attributable to the combination
of insulator (intergranular layer) and ZnO grain. Figure 4 shows the V-I characteristics of
ZnO element which are divided into three regions, being low current region (I), operating
region (II) and high current region (III).

Fig. 4. Voltage-current characteristics of ZnO element (Eda, 1980)

The current density-electric field J-E, relationship in region I is expressed from the physical
point of view as follows:

⎧⎪ φ − βE 0 .5 ⎫⎪
J = J 0 exp ⎨− ⎬ (1)
⎩⎪ kT ⎭⎪

where = (e0.75 π εεo), φ is the potential barrier (Â), E the electric field intensity (V/m), k the
Boltzmann constant, T the absolute temperature (K), e the electron charge (C), εo the vacuum
dielectric permittivity, and ε is the relative permittivity of the barrier substance.
Equation 1 clearly shows that, in low current region (I), the characteristics vary considerably
with the temperature T. This region is located at a point where the line-frequency voltage is
applied in applications for metal oxide arresters and it becomes important to pay attention
particularly to the characteristic change with energized time and the temperature dependence.

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In operating region (II), the current density is considered to be proportional to a power a of

the electric field intensity and is explained by the Fowler-Nordheim tunnel effect:

⎛γ⎞
J = J 0 exp ⎜ ⎟ (2)
⎝E⎠
1
4 ( 2m ) 2
where γ = , m is the electron mass, and h=ĥ/2 π , with ĥ being the Planck's constant.
3he
The nonlinearity is generally given by the following experimental expression:

I = CV α (3)
where = nonlinear exponent and C is a constant.
In applications of ZnO surge arrester this second region relates to protective characteristics
when a lightning impulse current has flowed through the arrester. The greater the value of
, the better is the protective characteristics.
In high current region (III), the resistivity of ZnO grain is dominant and the characteristic is
given by:

V ≈ KI (4)
where K is the resistivity of the ZnO grain.

1.3 ZnO arrester model

The non-linear voltage current characteristic of ZnO arrester in low current region (I) is
generally represented by the equivalent circuit shown in Figure 5 (Lee, 2005). The resistor R1
represents the non-linear resistance of the granular layers, where the resistivity ρ changes
from 108 Ωm for low electric field stress to just below 0.01 Ωm for high stress. The equivalent
capacitor C represents the capacitance between the granular layers with relative dielectric
constant between 500 and 1200 depending on manufacturing process. Rz is the resistance of
the ZnO grains with a resistivity of about 0.01 Ωm. To account for rate of rise effects, an
inductor is included as shown in Figure 5. The inductance L is determined by the geometry
of the current flow path.

Rz ( ρ = 10− 2Ωm)

Ir Ic

R1 ( ρ =10 8 − 10−2 Ωm) C ( εr = 500 −1200 )

It

Fig. 5. Equivalent electric circuit of ZnO element

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When R1 and C changes, the capacitive current (Ic), and the resistive current (Ir) also change.
The arrester’s leakage current, in particular, the third harmonic component of the resistive
leakage current, is known to be directly related to the degree of degradation of the ZnO
arrester (Lundquist et al., 1990; Spellman et al., 1997; Zhou et al., 1998; Tang et al., 1999). In
this work, in order to extract the resistive component from the total leakage current, the
shifted current method (Abdul-Malek, et al. 2008) was used. The algorithm to extract the
resistive component was implemented using the LabVIEW software.
The proposed method focuses on the ZnO arrester characteristic in low current region (I). In
the low current region, Rz is much less than R1 and the inductance L may be neglected.
Therefore, in the continuous operating voltage region, the ZnO surge arrester is modelled as
a non-linear resistor with a linear capacitive element in parallel as shown in Figure 6
(Haddad, et al. 1990).

Ir Ic

R
C

It

Fig. 6. Simplified equivalent model of a typical ZnO arrester

The total leakage current (It) of the arrester is given by a vector sum of a capacitive
component (Ic) which does not vary with degradation of the arrester, and the resistive
leakage current component (Ir) which varies with the degradation of the surge arrester.
Figure 7 shows the typical phasor relationship of all these currents.

Ic It

Ir Vref

Fig. 7. Vector diagram of It, Ic, Ir and reference voltage.

All currents are time dependent, so It, Ic and Ir can be written as:

I t (t) = I r (t) + I c (t) (5)

The resistive current component can be obtained simply by subtracting the capacitive
current component from the total leakage current as shown below:

I r (t) = I t (t) + I c (t) (6)

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When system voltage is applied on the surge arrester at continuous operating voltage, about
80% of the rated voltage, the arrester experiences some leakage current. The amplitude of
the leakage current depends on the condition of the surge arrester. The leakage current
consists of the capacitive and the resistive current component. The typical specific
capacitance of ZnO varistor block is 75 pF kV/cm2. Typical values of the capacitive current
range from 0.5 to 3 mA depending on the varistor diameter. For a complete surge arrester,
the capacitive current depends on the number of varistor columns in parallel, the stray
capacitances and actual operating voltage.

2. Shifted current method algorithm

One of the most common and straight forward techniques for extracting the resistive
leakage current (LC) for the purpose of condition monitoring is the compensation technique
(Shirakawa et al., 1998). In order to extract the resistive component from the total leakage
current, the voltage across the arrester terminals is usually measured and used as a
reference so that, based on the phase difference, the capacitive current component can be
established. The resistive component is then obtained by just subtracting the capacitive
component from the total leakage current. Other techniques to discriminate the resistive
leakage current with the need of voltage as reference for the purpose of arrester condition
monitoring have also been reported (Huijia et al., 2009; Kannus et al., 2007; Lira et al., 2007;
Wenjun et al., 2008; Vitols et al., 2009).
Traditionally, measurement of total leakage current in substations or other installations was
easily done using current shunts or current transformers, but the measurement of applied
voltage to obtain the resistive LC make these techniques more appropriate in the laboratory
rather than onsite due to the difficulty of measuring the voltage.
In this work, a new technique called the Shifted Current Method (SCM) is presented. This
technique does not require knowledge of the applied voltage for the resistive leakage
current to be obtained. The method is totally based on the manipulation of the total leakage
current waveform. If the total leakage current is given by Equation 7 and the corresponding
phase shifted (by a quarter of period) current by Equation 8, then the summation of these
two waveforms can be written as Equation 9 below:

I t (t) = I t cos(ωt) (7)

⎡ ⎛ 1 ⎞⎤
I tshifted ( t ) = I t cos ⎢ω ⎜ t − ⎟ ⎥ (8)
⎣ ⎝ 4f ⎠ ⎦

⎡ ⎧ ⎛ 1 ⎞ ⎫⎤
Isum (t) = I t ⎢ cos(ωt) + cos ⎨ω ⎜ t − ⎟ ⎬⎥ (9)
⎢⎣ ⎩ ⎝ 4f ⎠ ⎭⎥⎦

where It(t) is the total leakage current, Itshifted is the shifted total leakage current (by a quarter
of period of waveform), and Isum is the summation of the total leakage current and the
shifted current wave form. By signal manipulation technique, from this summation current,
the capacitive component of total leakage current can be determined, and thereafter the
resistive component of the leakage current can also be obtained by subtracting the capacitive
component from the total leakage current.

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Based on the above proposed technique, the algorithm to separate the resistive leakage current
from the total leakage current was built. The algorithm for the shifted current method could be
summarized as follows. Firstly, the arrester total leakage current is measured, and then a new
waveform is introduced by shifting the measured arrester total LC by a quarter period of its
operating frequency. Next, both the two total leakage currents are summed together and their
peak time determined. The amplitude of summed total leakage currents at time Tp, where Tp is
the time corresponding to the peak value of the summation waveform, is the peak value of the
resistive current. The peak time obtained is used to determine the peak time of the capacitive
current component which is equal to a quarter of period before or after the peak time of the
resistive component. The peak value of the capacitive component is also determined from the
original leakage current waveform. The capacitive leakage current is then generated based on
the peak time, the peak value and the frequency detected. Finally, the resistive leakage current
is obtained by subtracting the capacitive leakage current from the total leakage current. The
block diagram of the algorithm for calculating the resistive leakage current using the shifted
current method is shown in Figure 8.

Analog Shifted Resistive

Leakage Subtracting Leakage
Digital Leakage
Current Current
Converter Current

Added Peak Time

Current Detection

Capacitive
Current

Fig. 8. Block diagram of the shifted current method algorithm

3. Implementation of method in LabVIEW

The shifted current method was implemented in NI LabVIEW 8.5 software. Each block was
created and after that combined together to build an arrester monitoring system based on
the SCM algorithm. The subsequent subsections explain the implementation of the SCM in
LabVIEW.

3.1 LabVIEW-picoscope interface

Picoscope is a device that resembles the functions of an oscilloscope but runs on computer.
Usually, Picoscope comes with software that turns it into a PC oscilloscope. In order to
connect with LabVIEW, a VI (virtual instrument) interface was developed. LabVIEW
Picoscope VI program links the Picoscope with LabVIEW software. The block diagram of
the program is shown in Figure 9. The interface indicator shows a graph in front panel of the
block diagram as shown in Figure 10.

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Fig. 9. NI LabVIEW-Picoscope VI interface block diagram

Fig. 10. Front panel of NI LabVIEW-Picoscope interface

3.2 Frequency detector block

The frequency detector block is a VI in the LabVIEW library as shown in Figure 11, used to
detect the frequency, amplitude and phase of the surge arrestor total leakage current being
measured. Figure 12 shows a typical output of the block in the form of front panel with the
measured frequency, current and phase.

Fig. 11. Function of NI LabVIEW library for detecting frequency

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Fig. 12. NI LabVIEW front panel of frequency detector

3.3 Shifted signal block

This block was used to shift the total leakage current. In this block the total leakage current
was generated and shifted to a quarter period of frequency. The frequency was detected
using the frequency detector. It was then used as an input to the shifted signal block to shift
the leakage current as shown in Figure 14. The time t to shift the total leakage current signal
is given by

1
t= (10)
4f

where f is the signal frequency.

The frequency for this simulation is 50 Hz, so using Equation 10 the time to shift the current
is 0.005 second. The signal was changed to array and shifted using NI LabVIEW Y[i-n].vi
function as shown in Figure 13. The block diagram and front panel to shift the signal are
shown in Figure 14 and Figure 15 respectively.

Fig. 13. Function of NI LabVIEW library for shifted array

Fig. 14. The LabVIEW current shifting block diagram

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Fig. 15. Front panel of the current shifting

3.4 Adding signal block

The total leakage current and the shifted current were added using the adding block as
shown in Figure 16. The result of the summation can be seen in Figure 17. The adding block
is a simple block which was also available in LabVIEW library.

Fig. 16. LabVIEW block diagram of added signals

Fig. 17. Front panel of summed total LC signals

3.5 Peak time detector block

The peak of the summed total LC currents was detected using the peak detector shown in
Figure 18. The time Tp was also detected. The block diagram of the peak signal detection
consists of the peak amplitude and the corresponding time detection. Figure 19 shows the
block diagram while Figure 20 shows the front panel indicating the peak and value of the
parameter displayed on the front panel.

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Fig. 18. Function of NI LabVIEW library for peak detector

Fig. 19. LabVIEW diagram of peak detector

In the front panel, some easy-to-read parameters were also displayed. The parameters
include the highest peak, the precision and the peak time. All parameters will be used in the
xy determination block.

Fig. 20. Front panel of peak time detector

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3.6 XY determination block

The peak value of the capacitive LC corresponds to the peak value of the summed total LC
when a quarter of period of signal frequency is added to Tp. To do so, after the peak time Tp
of the summed total LC was obtained, the value was then added with a quarter of period of
the signal frequency. The XY determination block was then used to determine the peak
value at that instant of time. Figure 21 shows the xy determination block.

Fig. 21. LabVIEW diagram of XY determination

3.7 Signal generation block

After detecting the amplitude of the capacitive component of the total LC which
corresponds to the y value of the XY determination block, together with the frequency of the
total LC, a signal generator block shown in Figure 22 was used to generate the capacitive
LC. The y value, the frequency and phase, were the inputs to this block and the output was
a sinusoidal waveform as shown in Figure 23 and Figure 24.

Fig. 22. Function of NI LabVIEW library for simulate signal

Fig. 23. LabVIEW diagram of capacitive signal generation

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Fig. 24. Front panel of capacitive generation block

3.8 Resistive current extraction block

With the generation of the capacitive current obtained from the total LC, the resistive LC can
be obtained by subtracting the total LC from the capacitive signal obtained using the signal
generating block. This was achieved by simply using the LabVIEW subtracting block. Figure
25 shows the complete block diagram of this process. Figure 26 shows that capacitive and
total leakage currents.

Fig. 25. LabVIEW block diagram of capacitive current discrimination

Fig. 26. Capacitive and total leakage currents

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The result of this process which is the resistive component of the total leakage current can be
seen in Figure 27. This resistive current contains harmonics because of the non linear
characteristic of the ZnO material as well as the ageing effects. The third order harmonic of
this resistive leakage current could be extracted using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).

Fig. 27. The resistive leakage current

3.9 ZnO surge arrester monitoring system

All blocks which have been described above were combined to give a complete surge
arrester monitoring system. The complete block diagram is shown in Figure 28.

4. Experimental results
Experimental work was conducted on a new zinc oxide (ZnO) arrester block in the
laboratory. The ZnO arrestor block had a diameter and thickness of 40 mm and 21 mm
respectively. Its rated voltage and discharge currents were 3 kVrms and 10 kA. The arrester
block’s maximum continuous operating voltage (MCOV) was 2.55 kVrms.
The total leakage current of the arrester block was measured using a 10 kΩ resistive shunt
(power resistor) and the voltage using a capacitive divider with a ratio 686:1.
The total leakage current of surge arrester block or element that has not deteriorated will be
dominated by capacitive LC thus having small resistive LC. When the zinc oxide element or
block starts to experience degradation, the resistive LC gradually increases. In this study, for
the zinc oxide block sample to experience increased resistive LC, voltages above the MCOV
were applied (Shirakawa et al., 1998). The applied voltage was increased from 1 kV to 3.5 kV
in steps of 0.5 kV. The results of measurement are presented in Table 1 and Figure 29 shows
the graphical result for 3 kV displayed by the LabVIEW program.

Applied Resistive Leakage Current Harmonics

IT (mA)
Voltage (kV) Current (mA) Fundamental Third Fifth Seventh
1 0.150 0.065 0.053 0.021 0.005 0.003
2 0.165 0.075 0.061 0.032 0.006 0.005
2.5 0.288 0.137 0.094 0.059 0.032 0.018
3 0.53 0.458 0.512 0.117 0.063 0.041
3.5 0.707 0.512 0.558 0.239 0.076 0.054
Table 1. Measurement result using ZnO surge arrester monitoring system

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Fig. 28. LabVIEW block diagram of ZnO arrester monitoring system

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It can be seen from Table 1 that the resistive current of the arrester block had low harmonics
within nominal operating voltage (1 – 2.5 kV), suggesting it had not undergone degradation.
As the voltage was increased beyond MCOV, the resistive LC as well as the LC harmonics
especially the third harmonic increased exponentially indicating degradation.

Fig. 29. Front panel of ZnO surge arrester monitoring system (applied voltage 3kV)

5. Conclusion
The new shifted current method technique to determine ZnO ageing was successfully
implemented in LabVIEW software and proven useful for on-site measurement purposes.
Field tests on the whole measuring and analysing system was successfully carried out. The
developed program provides not only convenience in system management but also
provides a user-friendly interface.

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6. Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI)
Malaysia and Research Management Centre (RMC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, for the
financial and management support.

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Edited by Dr. Silviu Folea

ISBN 978-953-307-650-8
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Published online 01, August, 2011
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The book consists of 21 chapters which present interesting applications implemented using the LabVIEW
environment, belonging to several distinct fields such as engineering, fault diagnosis, medicine, remote access
laboratory, internet communications, chemistry, physics, etc. The virtual instruments designed and
implemented in LabVIEW provide the advantages of being more intuitive, of reducing the implementation time
and of being portable. The audience for this book includes PhD students, researchers, engineers and
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interesting ideas and very detailed solutions which offer the immediate possibility of making fast innovations
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