Development and prospect of monitoring and prevention methods of icing disaster in China power grid

Abstract

Icing disaster is one of the most serious threats to power grid security in China. This article provides a brief glance of current China's monitoring and prevention methods of icing disaster (MPI) development status. Despite a late start, China's research and development on MPI have made outstanding achievements, including formation mechanism causing ice disaster, key technologies and characteristics, and anti/de-icing approaches development and application. It is apparent that Chinese scientists and engineers confronted the worldwide problem of anti/de-icing, and put forward a comprehensive solution, which plays a more critical role in icing disaster prevention and reduction of power grid during the past 15 years. The article states that the anti/de-icing devices have been applied successively to severe icing issues. These achievements are leading the world in the development and application of MPI. However, it is only at the extreme ice and snow conditions that can test and verify whether prevention methods are comprehensive and perfect or not. And the authors discovered the application limitations in the existing achievements. The article also discusses the overall development trends of MPI in the areas of key technological and technical breakthroughs and application scenarios etc. These discussions serve as references for MPI's future technological advancement and its ever-expanding applications.