UViRCO Technologies
PO Box 395, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa Email: info@uvirco.com
Phone: +27 12 349 3760
Fax: +27 12 349 5200  
 

 

For UV Discharge Visualisation Systems

Typical applications for corona detection:
 

• Monitoring transmission line audible noise levels for acceptability e.g. from Radio and TV Interference sources, preventing or solving complaints.
• Auditing if HV equipment has been installed and maintained correctly or is damaged, thus preventing costly line outages.
• Monitoring the condition of wooden pole installations to prevent fires and burn-outs.
• Checking the condition of all types of insulators and if they are damaged possibly leading to the beginnings of failure.
• Measuring the outcome of research efforts into new or improved equipment or laboratory failure investigations.
• Checking if insulators withstand pollution well, e.g. by looking for signs of corona from dry-band arcing (this may lead to flashover and line outages).
• Determining the location and level estimation of significant corona power losses.
• Determining the location of corona sources in distribution panels, in factories or even underground.
• Checking motors, generators and other rotating electrical equipment.
• Locating flames, including from colourless burning sources.

And there are likely to be a number of other possible applications that have not yet been realised or quantified.