Electric Power ›› 2018, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (1): 71-77.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.201610143

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Mechanical De-icing Sequence Optimization Considering Transmission Line Security

CHENG Song1, YU Chen2, WU Chen3, HUANG Linyan4, CHU Yunlong1, CUI Wei1   

  1. 1. Northwest China Grid Company Limited, Xi'an 710048, China;
    2. NARI Group Corporation (State Grid Electric Power Research Institute), Nanjing 211106, China;
    3. Yunnan Power Dispatching and Control Center, Kunming 650011, China;
    4. School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
  • Received:2016-10-21 Revised:2017-07-07 Online:2018-01-05 Published:2018-02-28
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF) of China (No.51507080), Northwest China Grid Company Limited Project (No.52250115000v) and Yunnan Power Grid Company Project (No.YDTZ-F2014-105).

Abstract: The mechanical de-icing technique is an important method for coping with icing disasters of transmission lines. Current research mainly focuses on the improvement of the deicing method while few researches are conducted on the effect of mechanical de-icing process. It is found that the unbalance force in transmission tower may exceed the design criteria in the process of deicing conducted according to the sequence from one end to the other, which affects the security of transmission lines. At the same time, the maximum unbalance force in transmission tower varies with different mechanical de-icing sequences. Therefore, it's necessary to optimize the mechanical de-icing sequence to increase the security of mechanical de-icing. Firstly, the impact of de-icing sequence on the unbalance force in transmission tower is analyzed. And then, a sequence optimization model of mechanical de-icing is constructed in this paper. Given the nonlinearity and multiple constraints of the model, the genetic algorithm is used to optimize the de-icing sequence of conductors with different spans. Simulation results show that the optimized mechanical de-icing sequence can effectively lower the unbalance force and improve the security of power lines in the process of mechanical de-icing.

Key words: transmission line, icing disaster, mechanical de-icing, genetic algorithm, sequence optimization

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