Determining the contamination of various insulators for overhead transmission lines using N-FINDR algorithm

Abstract

Environmental conditions can now cause power transmission cables to become insulators by lowering flashover voltage and increasing leakage
current. Exposure to dust, moisture, rain, fog, and other unavoidable environmental factors can contaminate different types of insulators. As a result,
contaminated insulators cause flashovers and grid failures, which have additional negative economic effects. The datasets in this study were run through the NFINDR (N-dimensional finder) under a variety of environmental circumstances in order to determine the degree of contamination. The suggested method uses
a variety of environmental circumstances to determine the level of insulator contamination. To assess the health of insulators, artificial pollution models were
run on them by recording their leakage current data. Utilizing attributes from the gathered datasets, simulation is carried out. N-FINDR ascertains the level of
insulator contamination in this manner. To quantify the level of contamination in insulators, factors such as electric potential, electric field strength, permittivity,
ESDD (equivalent salt deposit density), accuracy, and leakage currents are measured and analyzed. By adding solvents like salt and water, analysis has been
done to find out how different environmental conditions affect insulators, and the levels of contamination have been assessed. The suggested technique's efficacy
is assessed simultaneously for a range of environmental variables.