Spiral Antenna Design and Analysis As a Tool to Measure Partial Discharge in High Voltage Equipment

Electrical Engineering Department, University of Trunojoyo Madura, 69162 Bangkalan, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author : deni.laksono@trunojoyojo.ac.id

Abstract

The high-voltage equipment often experiences disturbances caused by the age of the equipment, installation errors, partial discharge disturbances. Of these kinds of disturbances, partial discharge is one of the most common disturbances in high-voltage equipment which has a percentage level of 80% due to partial disturbance. In this study, a research related to electrical equipment that can detect partial discharge disturbances in these high-voltage equipment was done. The equipment is a spiral antenna, where the spiral antenna has several advantages in detecting partial discharge. In making the first partial discharge, a literature study will be carried out first, after that designing a spiral antenna using CST 2018 software to get the Return loss and VSWR parameters as desired, namely Return Loss less than -10 and VSWR less than 2. From the results of this study Spiral antenna is measured using VNA, the measurement results show the spiral antenna is in accordance with the parameters that have been determined, namely the return loss value = -30.8 and the VSWR value = between 1 to 1.5.