NOISE REDUCTION USING WAVELET TRANSFORM

TECHNIQUES DURING PARTIAL DISCHARGE

MEASUREMENT OF POWER CABLES

NAME OF RESEARCH CENTRE : CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE

DIVISION OF CPRI : CRTL, BANGALORE

NAME OF THE CANDIDATE NAME OF THE GUIDE

Jayakrishnan M Dr. B.NAGESHWAR RAO
Junior Research Fellow Joint Director
Power Cables Lab Power Cables Lab
DCCD Division DCCD Division
 INTRODUCTION
PD Occurs due to Cracks, Voids, Cavities, Joints and
De-laminations in Insulation of Electrical equipments
caused by improper installation, poor design or
workmanship.
Although these discharges have small (weak) energy,
the thermal energies due to these discharges can
cause aging, deformation and tear of the insulating
material.
PD testing gives an indication of deterioration of the
insulation and is an indicator of incipient faults.
On-Site PD signals are affected by interferences like
DSIs, periodic pulses and stochastic pulses.
 OBJECTIVES

To study the behavior of Partial Discharges in

different power cables.
To reduce the noise present in PD signals using
different Wavelet Transform techniques in
Power Cables.
To compare the different Wavelet Transform
techniques used to reduce noise during PD
measurement.
Limitations of existing De-noising techniques
Fast Fourier Transform only frequency domain
signal is obtained.
Low Pass Filtering, Notch Filtering, Matched Filtering
only time domain signal and Gibbs phenomenon.
Exponentially-Weighted Recursive Least Squares
time domain signal.
Frequency Domain Adaptive Filtering using DFT
frequency domain signal.
Winger-Ville Distribution suffers from Cross terms.
Short-Time Fourier Transform resolution issues.
 Wavelet transform
1. Wavelet is a wave like oscillation that begins at zero,
increases and then decreases back to zero.
2. Based on the uncertainty principle of signal processing.

3. Wavelet Transform retains both frequency of the signal

and the time associated to those frequencies.
4. Wavelet Transform is carried out by scaling and shifting
a mother wavelet and comparing it with the original
signal.
5. Transformation should allow only changes in time
extension but not shape of the signal.
 Threshold Functions
Hard Thresholding Soft Thresholding

SCHEMES FOR THRESHOLD ESTIMATION

Universal Threshold Rule -
Rigorous SURE
Heuristic SURE
Minimax Threshold Rule
 Exsisting Literature on Wavelet Transform
De-Noising
Most works are applicable to off site PD
measurements.
Most methods cause a considerable decrease
in the Peak after De-Noising.
Most methods dont provide a method for
setting mother wavelet or decomposition
levels.
During on-line PD measurements noise varies
frequently and a method suitable for de-
noising all kinds of noise is essential.
METHODOLOGY
PLAN OF ACTION
 RESEARCH WORK COMPLETED
PD Signals where simulated and mixed with
noise in MATLAB.
Simulated Signals De-noisied using Discrete
Wavelet Transform.
Method for setting Optimum Threshold
Estimator Developed using Simulated results.
Method for setting Optimum Decomposition
Level Obtained using Simuated results.
 The Method for setting threshold estimator is as
follows:

The method helped in de-noising simulated PD

signals with minimum Reduction on the peak
amplitude of the signal.
 RESEARCH WORK IN PROGRESS
The Method developed to be tested for a pulse
trains.
The Method for setting Optimum decomposition
level to be tested for different lengths of signals
and for different mother wavelets.
PD signals from Laboratory Conditions to be
extracted.
PD signals extracted from Lab to be tested with
the methods developed using simulation results.
 PUBLICATIONS
A paper titled Optimum threshold estimator
for de-noising partial discharge signal using
wavelet transform technique was presented
at IEEE CATCON 2015 IEEE Second
International Conference on Condition
Assessment Techniques in Electrical Systems
CPRI, Bangalore.
Sl.No. Conference/workshop Place Date
attended
1. A lecture on Testing of CPRI, Bangalore 9th & 14th July 2015
Research Hypothesis

2. Two day workshop on Research CPRI, Bangalore 14-15 Sept 2015

Methodology and Latex

3. One day National workshop on CPRI, Bangalore 14th July 2015

Crisis and Disaster
Management in power sector
and associated environments
4. IEEE Second International CPRI, Bangalore 10-12 December
Conference on Condition 2015
Assessment Techniques in
Electrical Systems (IEEE
CATCON 2015)
 TESTING ACTIVITIES

Identify the tests to be performed on cables based

on its construction and application as per customer
request.

Involved in type tests for Low Voltage, Medium

Voltage and High Voltage Power Cables as per
National & International standards.
 CABLES LAB TESTING
ELECTRICAL TEST NON-ELECTRICAL TEST

1) PARTIAL DISCHARGE TEST 1) TENSILE STRENGTH AND ELONGATION

AT BREAK TEST

2) TAN TEST 2) HOT SET AND HOT DEFORMATION TEST

3) IMPULSE VOLTAGE TEST 3) SHRINKAGE TEST

4) CONDUCTOR AND INSULATION 4) HEAT SHOCK TEST

RESISTANCE TEST
5) SEMICONDUCTOR RESISTIVITY TEST 5) COLD IMPACT TEST
 PROGRESS TOWARDS COURSE WORK
Three papers of course work have been
attempted in September 2015, and cleared
two papers.

The remaining four papers of course work will

be taken in the next semester.
Thank you