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Insulator Contamination Laboratory – CONTISOLA

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Insulator Contamination Laboratory – CONTISOLA

The accumulation of aerosol deposits on the insulators of overhead transmission lines can cause the triggering of leakage currents that manifest themselves as flashovers. In order to better understand this problem, the CONTISOLA experimental station was created. This station continuously monitors the rate of deposition of contaminants under different exposure and atmospheric conditions.

 

In particular, the station demonstrates how accumulation depends on the height of aerosol exposure by observing the deposition process on three sample insulators. Two are placed two meters above the ground on a metal platform, while the third is placed forty meters above the ground for comparison. There are also two deposition boxes on the ground platform where the contaminant aerosol diffuses and interacts with the sample insulators placed there.

 


 

 

The contamination level of the insulators is evaluated periodically by removing the accumulated deposits and measuring the conductivity associated with the salt compounds. The concentration of insoluble components such as sand, clay and oil particles, the ionic composition through chromatographic analysis and the elemental and organic carbon fractions using the TOC technique are also assessed. The experimental results are correlated with data on meteorological parameters, such as precipitation level, relative humidity, wind speed and direction.  

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