Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

General Electric Company

Palo Alto Research Company Incorporated

Bradley Kittrell

Peter Kiesel

Ajay Raghavan

Todd Karin

Jane Shin

Serena Lee

Mark Teepe

Malcolm Graham Smith, Jr

Robert T Stinson, Iv

A corrosion monitoring system includes one or more objects coupled to respective portions of a transformer tank. The one or more objects are configured to corrode before the respective portions of the transformer tank. At least one optical sensor is coupled to each of the objects. The at least one optical sensor has an optical output that changes in response to strain of the object. An analyzer is coupled to the at least one optical sensor. The analyzer is configured to perform one or more of detecting and predicting corrosion of the transformer tank based on the output of the at least one optical sensor.

Optical monitoring to detect corrosion of power grid components

An approach to detecting partial discharge events involves retrofitting an electrical system to include a capacitive sensor configured to capacitively sense partial discharge events of a component of the electrical system. The capacitive sensor has a first electrical conductor that forms a first terminal of the capacitive sensor, a second electrical conductor that forms a second terminal of the capacitive sensor, and a dielectric that separates the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor. The capacitive sensor generates an electrical sensor signal at an output of the capacitive sensor in response to the partial discharge event. The electrical sensor signal is converted to an optical signal and the optical signal is processed to detect an occurrence of the partial discharge event.

Partial discharge sensor

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