A Novel IEPE AE-Vibration-Temperature-Combined Intelligent Sensor for Defect Detection of Power Equipment

Insulation and mechanical defects are the main reasons of the power equipment fault, the former could generate partial discharge (PD) which can be detected by acoustic emission (AE) sensor, the other one can be evaluated by vibration and temperature variation. However, the two defects are detected and analyzed independently in traditional detection, the importance of multi-signal interaction and fusion analysis is ignored. To realize multi-signal synchronous detection and associated analysis, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of state evaluation of power equipment, a novel integrated electronics piezoelectric (IEPE) AE-vibration-temperature combined intelligent sensor is proposed and developed in this paper. Reasonable structure design and components customization enable the sensor to acquire signals simultaneously. Meanwhile, integrated transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS) and data processing circuit intelligentize the combined sensor. The primary detection parameters of the sensor are acquired in the calibration experiments. In PD, vibration and temperature joint experiment, it is verified that the combined sensor is more sensitive and multifunctional. Besides, a new fusion analysis diagram, vibration-phase resolved partial discharge (V-PRPD), is proposed to characterise the correlation between PD and vibration.