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Failure Analysis
of Medium Voltage Capacitor Banks:
The Egyptian Experience
Mohamed A. EL-HADIDY Dalal H. HELMI
CONTENT
• GENERAL
• APPROACH
• OBJECTIVES
• FAILURE MODES
• EXAMPLES OF FAILURE MECHANISMS
• UTILITY MAINTENANCE PRACTISES
• RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATION
- GENERAL-
• System reliability depends on components’
reliability
- APPROACH -
- Analyzing the available Capacitor Failure data
of all vendors, over the banks lifetime.
- Classify different types of failures
- Conducting deep analysis and comparisons
between different vendors
OBJECTIVES
Assess the failure modes, rates and mechanisms of
MV capacitor banks installed in the Egyptian
Network, and sum up utility experience in this field
1.8 MVAR
3.6 MVAR, or
5.4 MVAR
Typical two step capacitor bank installation
Dalal HELMI – Egypt, Session 1 Paper no. 0581
Prague, 8-11 June 2009
- FAILURE MODES-
2 6 17 1
EXAMPLES OF FAILURE
MECHANISMS
• In 2008, EETC noticed two types of problems in
the newly delivered MV caps from X vendor.
– Observation of oil leakage from some
capacitor bushing
– Decline in capacitance values which leads to
tripping of the bank by the unbalance
protection.