Icing Characteristics and Rapid Calculating Method of Bundled Conductor of Transmission Line Based on Shadowing Effect Analysis
Huang Yafei1, Chen Yangning1, Yang Xin1, Jiang Xingliang2, Fan Caijin3
1. State Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention & Reduction for Power Grid Changsha University of Science and Technology Changsha 410114 China; 2. Xuefeng Mountain Energy Equipment Safety National Observation and Research Station of Chongqing University Chongqing 400044 China; 3. State Key Laboratory of HVDC CSG Electric Power Research Institute Guangzhou 510663 China
Abstract：For bundled conductors, the shadowing effect of upwind sub-conductor will affect the airflow and droplets distributions of downwind one, resulting in the difference in icing characteristics. Traditional icing calculation process generally ignored these differences and, hence, only giving an identical icing mass result of each sub-conductor. This affects the study of the aerodynamic characteristics and deicing methods of icing bundled conductor. Although some scholars have pointed out that the shadowing effect between sub-conductors will influence the icing process, there is no quantitative study. Therefore, this paper further explores the shadowing effect and relevant influencing factors of bundled conductors through numerical simulation and test research. Furthermore, based on the analysis of the shadowing effect and the superposition principle, a rapid calculation method of ice mass accreted on the bundled conductor is proposed. Firstly, the distributions of airflow and droplets around bundled conductor are solved by Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase flow model. Secondly, combined with the mass and thermodynamic balance equations, the icing mass and shape accreted on bundled conductor under various icing environments are obtained. Then a new parameter called shadowing coefficient is defined to investigate the shadowing effect and influencing factors as well. The results show that: Shadowing effect is weakened with increasing absolute value of shadowing angle and bundled-spacing, but intensified with the increase of median volume diameter (MVD) of droplets; Meanwhile, the shadowing effect experiences a growth and then drops down along with the increase of wind speed, and reach to the max at 15 m/s range 5~20 m/s. Based on the superposition principle and shadowing effect analysis, a rapid calculating method for ice mass on bundled conductor is proposed. Where iced bundled conductor is regarded as a linear combination of non-shadowed sub-conductor (single conductor) icing intensity and shadowing coefficient, so the icing intensity of various types of bundled conductor can be obtained only requiring the icing intensity of single conductor and the shadowing coefficient in the corresponding environment. Then the rapid icing calculation formulars of 3,4,6,8-bundled conductor under various shadowing angle is given by geometry analysis, respectively, which simplifies the calculation of the icing mass on bundled conductor. Finaly, a 4-bundled conductor nature icing test was carried out at the Xuefeng Mountain Energy Equipment Safety National Observation and Research Station to validate the accuracy of the numerical simulation and rapid calculation method. Results show that under the environment parameters of ambit temperature Tf = -2℃, MVD = 25.4 μm, liquid water content Lwc = 0.61 g/m3, wind speed V = 10 m/s and shadowing angle θ = 2°, the difference in icing intensity between rapid calculation and test results was within -4.01% to -19.77%, the icing thickness differences of sub-conductors were between 1.66% to -6.36% and the differences in shadowing coefficient were between 4.05% to 5.33%, which well verifies the accuracy of the rapid calculation method proposed in this paper.
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Huang Yafei, Chen Yangning, Yang Xin, Jiang Xingliang, Fan Caijin. Icing Characteristics and Rapid Calculating Method of Bundled Conductor of Transmission Line Based on Shadowing Effect Analysis. Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, 2025, 40(9): 2852-2863.
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