DISSOLVED GAS ANALYSIS (DGA) OF NATURAL ESTER OILS UNDER ARCING FAULTS

Dissolved gas analysis is one of diagnostic technique for monitoring the internal condition of transformer. However, DGA analyses for natural ester especially palm oil and rice bran oil still lacking. Therefore, this paper presents the investigation on natural esters regarding gassing behaviour under lightning impulse breakdown. Two type of natural ester oils were used namely Palm oil (PO) and Rice Bran oil (RBO). The DGA result showed that C2H2 and H2 detected the highest amount of gases for both samples. The gaseous obtained from the experiments were interpreted in different DGA method such as Dornenburg ratio, Roger ratio, IEC Gas method and Duval Triangle method to find the best technique for natural ester oils. The conducted experiment shows that PO and RBO have comparable dielectric performance and gassing characteristics to mineral oil, but still requiring modification of design and operating parameters .