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Inspection Technology
Based on Magnetic Field Sensing at
Ground Surface Level
Guide : Jassiya M A
By Anand K.R
Reg no:13007311
S7-EEE
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Index
Introduction
Conventional methods of cable detection
Limitations
Advanced Surface level detection technology
Advantages over conventional methods
Application
References
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Introduction
Advantages of underground power cables
Without the prior knowledge of underground power cables, risk can be posed to the
excavation workers or other construction workers.
Engineers could have better situational awareness and have more information
about the potential problems of the underground power cables.
b) Inductive injection
Magnetic sensing
The location and depth of
the subsurface pipe or cable
is located by the angle of the
magnetic force concentrically
generated by the metal pipe
and the strength of the
magnetic field.
Limitations
The signal injection method uses a transmitter and a receiver which
make it more difficult to carry and it takes a lot of time to setup or
initialize the process.
These devices only detect spatial parameters of the underground
cables.
They cannot provide any electrical information in most cases.
In addition, it heavily relies on the expertise, experience, and
judgment of the operator to properly locate the underground cables.
These tools are in principle just a magnetometer and they do not
provide much analysis about the measured data.
These devices are very expensive.
Magneto-resistive sensors
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Working
Advantages
Disadvantages
Sensitive to
interfering
magnetic fields.
Very strong
magnetic field can
damage the
sensor
Limited linear
range
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Detection process
* It starts with the default position parameter
P0.
*Phase current Ip in each conductor is calculated
by inverse current program (ICP) based
on the LSA algorithm.
*Then, the magnetic field Bcal is calculated
using Ip and A in magnetic field evaluation
(MFE) module.
*There is a predetermined minimum threshold
value of Euclidean distance ||Bcal Bmea|| as the
end condition for terminating the optimization.
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Result
Applications
It can be used for detection of high
power underground cables carrying
voltages up to
132 KV.
It can
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Experimental setup
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Specifications
MR three-axis sensor (Honeywell HMC2003)
array.
Three-phase straight power lines (50 Hz)
height of sensor array as y = 0 cm and the
height of power lines as 50.0 cm.
so , the positions of powerlines are (16,50),
(0,50), and (16,50)
Input phase currents of the 3 conductors are :
16.3, 16.2,
and 16.5 A respectively
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Working
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