Abstract

Dry-type power transformers play a critical role in the power system. Detecting various overheating faults in the running state of the power transformer is necessary to avoid the collapse of the power system. In this paper, we propose a novel deep variational autoencoder-based anomaly detection method to recognize the overheating position in the operation of the dry-type transformer. Firstly, the thermal images of the transformer are acquired by the thermal camera and collected for training and testing datasets. Next, the variational autoencoder-based generative adversarial networks are trained to generate the normal images with different running conditions from heavy to light loading. Through the pixel-wise cosine difference between original and reconstructed images, the residual images with faulty features are obtained. Finally, we evaluate the trained model and anomaly detection method on normal and abnormal testing images to demonstrate the effeteness and performance of the proposed work. The results show that our method effectively improves the anomaly accuracy, AUROC, F1-scores and average precision, which is more effective than other anomaly detection methods. The proposed method is simple, lightweight and has less storage size. It reveals great advantages for practical applications.

Highlights

  • Power transformers play a critical role in the power system

  • We propose an unsupervised anomaly detection method system based on Infrared thermography (IRT) image recognition

  • We focus on training the model that can reconstruct the normal image through generative adversarial learning to fully catch the features of the normal image

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Introduction

A dry-type transformer refers to the electric transformer in which the core and winding are cast together with epoxy resin, instead of being immersed in oil. There are different ways of insulating and dissipating heat between dry-type and oil-immersed transformers. Dry-type transformers are generally insulated with resin, cooled by natural air or by fans. Compared to the liquidfilled transformer, one of the disadvantages of dry-type is that, due to lack of oil for insulation or cooling, they require sufficient cooling capacity [4]. Common failure modes of the dry-type transformer fall into insulation failure in coils, conduct failure, mechanical damage, etc., which are prone to overheating and pose a serious threat to the safe operation of the transformer. Higher temperatures will accelerate the insulation aging of the equipment and shorten the lifetime of the equipment

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