Condition Monitoring System 16 Description of Overall Process 22 The Experiment Result of Switchgear 29 The Actual Testing of Switchgear 30 The Mean Graph of Trip Coil Current Profile 31 The Histogram Graph of DC Current 32 The Histogram Graph of Time 33

CHAPTER TOPICS PAGE CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Switchgear System 5 2.1.1 Pas chen’s Law 6 2.1.2 Vacuum Interruption Technique 7 2.1.3 Construction of Vacuum Interrupter 8 2.1.4 Operation of Vacuum Interrupter 9 2.1.5 Operation of Circuit Breaker 10 2.1.6 Trip Coil Current Profile 12 2.1.7 Construction of Trip Coil 14 2.1.8 Summary on Switchgear 15

2.2 Condition Monitoring System 16

2.2.1 Introduction of Condition Monitoring System 16 2.2.2 Purposes of Condition Monitoring System 17 2.2.3 Types of Condition Monitoring System 18 2.2.4 Application of Condition Monitoring System for Circuit Breaker 19 2.2.5 Circuit Breaker Condition Assessment 20 2.2.6 Summary on Condition Monitoring System 21

CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY

3.1 Description of Overall Process 22

3.1.1 The Experiment of Trip Coil Profile 23 3.1.2 Data Collection 26 CHAPTER TOPICS PAGE 3.1.3 Data Analysis 27 3.1.4 Full Report Writing 28

CHAPTER 4 RESULT AND ANALYSIS

4.1 The Experiment Result of Switchgear 29

4.2 The Actual Testing of Switchgear 30

4.3 The Mean Graph of Trip Coil Current Profile 31

4.4 The Histogram Graph of DC Current 32

4.5 The Histogram Graph of Time 33

4.6 The Analysis of Opening Time for Circuit Breaker 34 4.7 The Determination of Mean value

35 4.8 The Determination of Difference Value 37 CHAPTER 5 DISCUSSION 5.1 The Mean Average of Trip Coil Current Profile 39 5.2 The Uniformity of the Profiler 41 5.3 The Percentage of Difference Value Analysis 42 5.4 The Application of Circuit Breaker Condition Assessment in Substation 42

CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

6.1 Conclusion 44

6.2 Recommendation 46

BIBLIOGRAPHY 47 APPENDICES 49 LIST OF FIGURE FIGURE TITLE PAGE 2.1 Paschen’s Law Graph for several types of gases 6 2.2 Paschen’s Law at low pressure 7 2.3 A section type V801 vacuum interrupter 8 2.4 Basic construction of vacuum interrupter 8 2.5 A vacuum contrate contact 10 2.6 Stages of circuit breaker operation 11 2.7 Illustration of circuit breaker operation 12 2.8 Trip Coil Current Profile 13 2.9 Cross Section of a Common Trip Coil 14 2.10 Condition Monitoring Work Frame 16 3.1 Flow Char t of Methodology’s Summary 23 3.2 DC Supply of Breaker Mechanism and Control Circuit 24 3.3 The un-mounted of 33kV Switchgear 24 3.4 The Kelman Profiler 25 3.5 Raw data obtained from the experiment 25 3.6 The connection of DC Probe 26 3.7 The connection of DC Voltage Probe and AC Current Probe 27 4.1 The result of the experiment at ILSAS 29 4.2 The result of the Actual Testing 30 4.3 The mean average graph of Trip Coil Current Profile 31 4.4 Histogram graph of DC Current 32 FIGURE TITLE PAGE 4.5 Histogram graph of Time 33 5.1 A Typical Trip Coil Current Profile 39 5.2 Circuit Breaker Condition Assessment Application 43 LIST OF TABLE TABLE TITLE PAGE 4.1 The Opening Time for Circuit Breaker 34 4.2 Determination of Mean 35 4.3 Determination of Difference Value 37 5.1 The Summary of the TCCP Section 41 LIST OF ABBREVIATION ABBREV NAME DC - Direct Current emf - electromagnetic force PMU - Penca wang Masuk Utama Transmission Main Intake PPU - Penca wang Pembahagian Utama Main Distribution Substation SSU - Stesen Suis Utama Main Switching Station ILSAS - TNB Integrated Learning Solution A - Ampere ms - Millisecond V - Volts LRT - Light Rail Transit MSG - Malaysian Sheet Glass Sdn. Bhd. TCCP - Trip Coil Current Profile LIST OF APPENDICES NUM TITLE PAGE Appendix A Flow Chart for Final Year Project I II I Appendix B Gantt Chart FYP II Appendix C Technical Data for 33kV TAMCO Switchgear III Appendix D Experiment Result at ILSAS IV Appendix E Actual Testing for Trip Coil Current Profile around Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Area V Appendix F Turn-It-In Plagiarism Report VI CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background