69%* of HV cable failures occur in joints and terminations, which are overlooked by conventional monitoring techniques. As Synaptec sensors require no control power, data networks or expensive civil works, it is now feasible to instrument these remote locations to provide early warning of more cable failure modes than with conventional technology. This dramatically improves availability and safety, while reducing OpEx and outage cost over the life of the network.

*Source http://www.jicable.org/TOUT_JICABLE/2015_slides/2015-D9-2_slides.pdf

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Challenges in cable condition monitoring

By their nature, underground power cable systems are difficult and costly to access and inspect. Some automation has been made possible by installing permanent DTS (Distributed Temperature Sensing), and in some rare cases permanent PD (Partial Discharge) monitoring technologies, but these techniques do not provide early warning of failures at cable connection points. Cable screen continuity and earth faults, flooding, and sheath voltage limiter faults can all occur at bonding locations along the circuit, which are not easily inspected manually or instrumented for permanent, online monitoring.

Our solution

Synaptec’s Distributed Electrical Sensing (DES) technology is ideally suited to resolving these
challenges as it streams continuous and synchronous measurements from every cable joint and termination. By monitoring cable sheath current using DES, it is possible to improve the accuracy of circuit models while monitoring for early signatures of sheath and screen damage, overheating, water trees, electrical trees, PD, and eventual flashover.

The addition of phase voltage and current sensing enables the monitoring of electrical transients and harmonic content. Transients from switching sources, capacitor banks, and inductive loads, commonly associated with power electronics can stress circuit components and over time introduce damage. Transients can slowly degrade insulation, eventually leading to localised overheating and short circuit currents. Synaptec’s cable condition monitoring technology provides utilities with a unique and comprehensive set of asset insights, allowing more failure modes to be monitored for progression and providing actionable insights at significantly earlier stages of degradation.

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