High voltage testing of electrical equipment is of utmost importance to ensure safe operation over their lifetime. Accurate measurements of test high voltages are needed by manufacturers of equipment such as transformers, insulators, and cables to verify whether the device is capable of withstanding the conditions that can be met in service, making use of measurement systems calibrated against a reference. Users, such as grid operators, also need to verify the withstand capabilities of their equipment along their lifetime, e.g. after occurrence of potentially harmful events.
Past and ongoing activity within the Smart Electricity Grids projects is contributing to the update of the standards being developed by IEC TC 42 ‘High-voltage and high-current test techniques’, with focus on the IEC 60060-series on measurement methods and traceability of laboratory measurement systems.
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Test Bench and Frequency Response of a Magnetic Antenna used in GIS PD Measurements
Mier, C. and Rodrigo, A.
Document type: Proceeding
Project title:19ENG02: FutureEnergy: Metrology for future energy transmission
Name of Call / Funding Programme: EMPIR 2019: Energy
Prequalification of Capacitors for High-Precision Voltage Dividers
Jiang, H., Pischler, O., Schichler, U., Havunen, J., Hällström, J., Merev, A., Dedeoğlu, S., Özer, S., Meisner, J., Passon, S. and Gerdinand, F.
Document type: Proceeding
Project title:19NRM07: HV-com²: Support for standardisation of high voltage testing with composite and combined wave shapes
Name of Call / Funding Programme: EMPIR 2019: Pre-Co-Normative
Towards a traceable divider for composite voltage waveforms below 1 kV
Galliana, F., Caria, S.E. and Roccato, P.E.
Document type: Article
Project title:19NRM07: HV-com²: Support for standardisation of high voltage testing with composite and combined wave shapes
Name of Call / Funding Programme: EMPIR 2019: Pre-Co-Normative
Design and Characterization of a Magnetic Loop Antenna for Partial Discharge Measurements in Gas Insulated Substations
Mier Escurra, C., Rodrigo Mor, A. and Vaessen, P.
Document type: Article
Project title:19ENG02: FutureEnergy: Metrology for future energy transmission
Name of Call / Funding Programme: EMPIR 2019: Energy
Error in the measurement of partial discharge pulses according to the frequency response of HFCT sensors
Khamlichi, A., Garnacho, F., Ortego, J., Alvarez, F. and Rovira, J.
Document type: Article
Project title:19ENG02: FutureEnergy: Metrology for future energy transmission
Name of Call / Funding Programme: EMPIR 2019: Energy