DocumentCode
1043168
Title
Simulation of EHV Transmission Line Flashovers Initiated by, Bird Excretion
Author
West, H.J. ; Brown, J.E. ; Kinyon, A.L.
Author_Institution
Bonneville Power Administration
Issue
4
fYear
1971
fDate
7/1/1971 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1627
Lastpage
1630
Abstract
During the past two years, unexplained flashovers have caused 32 outages on the Bonneville Power Administration 500 kV ac transmission lines. Tests reported in this paper indicate that some of these unexplained flashovers may have been caused by large birds and leave little or no evidence of the cause. It is also shown that this mechanism may cause flashovers on ehv dc transmission lines.
Keywords
Birds; Contamination; Flashover; Insulation; Laboratories; Power transmission lines; Propagation losses; Statistical distributions; Testing; Transmission lines;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Power Apparatus and Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9510
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TPAS.1971.293150
Filename
4074505
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