An Approach to Noise Rejection and Partial Discharge Separation in DC Cable Testing, During Steady State and Voltage Polarity Inversion Transients

Quality control, commissioning and operation of DC cable systems (and, in general, electrical apparatus) require PD testing and monitoring technologies that are effective in rejecting noise and identifying partial discharges and their source, both under DC and AC power supply. Such technologies are not fully available at present, so that this paper presents a contribution to make them feasible. A new algorithm is suggested that may be effective to separate partial discharges from noise both under steady-state DC and during voltage transients, through an automatic and unsupervised approach which looks very promising for laboratory and on-field testing and monitoring of partial discharges in DC cable systems.