Abstract

The temperature distribution on the gas-insulated line (GIL) spacer affects surface charge accumulation. However, the spacer temperature distribution is hard to measure because the conventional electric sensors are large dimensions, hard to multiplex, and sensitive to electromagnetic interference (EMI). In this article, a distributed temperature measurement system of GIL spacer based on the optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) was developed to solve the problems. In this system, ultraweak fiber Bragg grating (FBG) was adopted to replace single-mode fiber due to its higher signal-to-noise ratio. The demodulation method was described for compensating the nonlinear frequency tuning errors induced by the unstable tunable laser. In addition, the relationship between the spacer temperature and the wavelength shift was determined in the calibration experiment. Moreover, the temperature distribution on a 126-kV GIL spacer was measured by the proposed OFDR system. The data processing method for 3-D surface temperature on cone-type spacer was also introduced. High-resolution temperature distribution on the spacer surface was successfully obtained using OFDR system, which is unable to accomplish with the conventional electric temperature sensor.

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