Design, fabrication, and testing of double layer printed bow-tie antenna as partial discharge sensor in gas insulated switchgear

Author

Khayam, Umar ; Vauzia, Farrah ; Suwarno

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Inst. Teknol. Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

fYear

2014

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

162

Abstract

Partial discharge (PD) diagnostic using ultra high frequency (UHF) method has been developed recently. UHF method is the effective method in detecting electromagnetic wave emitted by PD activity in gas insulated switchgear (GIS). This paper focused on designing bow-tie antenna as UHF sensor to achieve 300 MHz bandwidth, return loss ≤-10dB and VSWR ≤2. After being designed and simulated, the most optimum antenna was fabricated on a double-layer PCB with FR4-epoxy substrate. As comparison, three antennas with different flare angles were also fabricated. The antennas characteristics were measured using network analyzer. At last, the four antennas were tested in high voltage laboratory to find the most sensitive antenna in detecting PD in GIS. PD was measured in two voltage levels, 26kV and 28kV.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna testing; bow-tie antennas; gas insulated switchgear; microstrip antennas; network analysers; partial discharge measurement; printed circuits; FR4-epoxy substrate; GIS; PD diagnostic; UHF sensor; VSWR; double layer printed bow-tie antenna testing; double-layer PCB; electromagnetic wave detection; gas insulated switchgear; network analyzer; partial discharge sensor; return loss; ultra high frequency method; voltage 26 kV; voltage 28 kV; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Bandwidth; Gas insulation; Partial discharge measurement; Partial discharges; Substrates; GIS; Partial Discharge; UHF; diagnostic; double layer bow-tie antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICPERE), 2014 International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPERE.2014.7067199

Filename

7067199