Development of a remote insulator contamination monitoring system

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 389-395

  Richards, C N ^a,b   Renowden, J D ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Atmospheric Physics Inc   (United States)

^c Florida Power & Light Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminated Insulation; Contamination Monitoring; Contamination Outages; Field Deployable Measurement System; Flashover Mechanism; Wetting

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; MONITORING; OUTAGES;

REMOTE INSULATOR CONTAMINATION MONITORING SYSTEM;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 0030787228     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.568263     Document Type: Article

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