Effect of interfacial charge on parameters considered for insulation diagnosis of power transformer

Out of various analysis methods available Polarization Depolarization Current (PDC) measurement is extensively used for monitoring of oil-paper insulation health. In such case, Classical Debye Model (CDM) is used for analysis of recorded PDC data. CDM has limited capacity to simulate the effect of interfacial charge. Due to this interfacial charge, nonlinearity arises in the system which adversely affects the insulation. Conductivity difference between oil and paper is the main reason behind this interfacial charge which creates nonlinearity in system. In the present work, the effect of interfacial charge is analyzed on some of the performance parameters used for diagnosis of insulation like peak value of return voltage spectrum and paper conductivity.