Using power system temperature sensors for moreuses than originally intended : Exemplified by investigating dynamic rating possibilities

• Power system owners are facing major challenges with changed electricity consumption and production patterns; more distributed generation and increased demand of cost efficiency while maintaining high reliability. Today, the capacity of power components often is set with static limits based on simulations of worst case scenarios. This leads to a discrepancy between the actually-available capacity and the rating itself which unfortunately is left unused. The approach of dynamic rating implies that the capacity of a component is dynamically varying as a function of external parameters such as weather, load history and diagnostic indicators. Svenska kraftnät (Swedish national grid) has installed temperature sensors with the purpose of developing condition monitoring methods in another research project. Within this project, the same infrastructure can perhaps be used to also evaluate dynamic rating algorithms of power lines or to develop new algorithms regarding e.g. disconnectors. Also the thermal modelling in that project can be reused. This paper hence exemplifies the possibility to get more applications without additional costly and complicated investments. The aim of the paper is hence to show on future research possibilities and bring ideas to discussion.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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Better utilization

Correlations

Dynamic rating

Power components

Power transmission

Transfer limitation

Weather sensors

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