Development of GIS PD Location System Based on LabVIEW

On-line detecting partial discharge inside GIS and locating the source of partial discharge spatially can discover the premonition of GIS insulation defects. This article introduces a system for partial discharge on-line detection and source locating, which is based on the hardware consisting essentially of ultrasonic sensors, prepositive signal amplifiers, a TDS3034C oscilloscope and a laptop. The system is a virtual instrument based on LabVIEW platform, and it can sample the ultrasonic signals generated by partial discharge in real time, and provide a friendly human-computer interaction interface. This article deeply discussed the partial discharge signal acquisition, signal de-noising, multi-way signal delay calculation and algorithm based on the time lag. The result implies that the system can validly detect and locate partial discharge, and spatially demonstrate the coordinate of the source of partial discharge through human-computer interaction interface.