CRITICAL AGING SEGMENTS OF POWER （关键老化的部分权力）.pdf

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 6 (4): 340-351, 2013 ISSN: 1941-7020 © 2014 H.H. Goh et al., This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 3.0 license doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2013.340.351 Published Online 6 (4) 2013 (/ajeas.toc) CRITICAL AGING SEGMENTS OF POWER TRANSMISSION LINE 1Goh, H.H., 1N.E. Chin, 1Q.S. Chua, 1S.W. Lee, 2K.C. Goh and 3K.T.K. Teo 1Departmentof Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2Departmentof Construction Management, Faculty of Technology Management and Business, UniversitiTun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 86400 Parit Raja, BatuPahat, Johor, Malaysia 3Modelling, Simulation and Computing Laboratory, Level 3, Block C, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Jalan UMS, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Received 2013-11-24; Revised 2013-11-28; Accepted 2013-12-09 ABSTRACT Nowadays, blackouts or sags of a conductor are threatening the safety and stable run of the power transmission lines. These phenomena happen due to the environmental conditions which change over the time, such as aging or temperature variations, precipitation and hotspots of power transmission lines as a result of extreme weather conditions. A precipitation condition result loses of heat from transmission line. Besides, the conductor aging and hotspots of a transmission line can lead to the loss of conductor strength, which may increase the probability of blackouts. All the damage suffers by the transmission line will cause the service interruption and required high cost to repair. Consequently, appro