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Cross Bonding Earthing Fault Detected by DTS Surveillance in China

by LIOSinfo on July 25, 2011

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Cologne, Germany -- The Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) online surveillance of a 220 kV power cable system in Xiamen Power Utility, China helps preventing a potentially serious large-scale high voltage cable fault. Following the DTS system alarm indication the maintenance staff of the power utility was able to discover a grounding problem in one cross bonding ...

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