Failures in outdoor insulation caused by bird excrement

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 716-722

  Montoya Tena, Gerardo ^a   Hernández C , Ramiro ^a   Montoya T , Jorge I ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ELÉCTRICAS   (Mexico)

^b Universidad Politecnica del Valle de Toluca   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bird excrement (BE); Contamination; Insulators; Line outages

Indexed keywords

ELIMINATION TECHNIQUES; FOUR-GROUP; INSULATORS; LINE OUTAGE; ME-XICO; OUTDOOR INSULATION; PARTICULAR CONDITION; PHYSICAL BARRIERS; SECOND GROUP; TRANSMISSION LINE; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

ELECTRIC LINES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

OUTAGES;

EID: 77949268999     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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