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Session
B2-10: Advances in Insulator Design and Diagnostics for High Voltage Transmission
Time:
Wednesday, 01/Oct/2025:
4:00pm - 6:00pm

 Location: Plenary Room
Session Topics:
B2 Overhead lines

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Presentations
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Optimizing Maintenance Operations and Insulation Selection through Insulator Monitoring in polluted Environments

Pierre Thelier1, Andrew Phillips2, Javier Lopez Osuna3, Javier Garcia Hernandez1, Christiaan Engelbrecht2, Ruben Alonso Arcones1

1Verescence La Granja Insulators, Spain; 2EPRI; 3REE


4:15pm - 4:30pm

Intelligent Insulator Defect Identification and Reporting: A Synergistic Approach Using Deep Learning and Language Models

Siyanda Biyela

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, South Africa


4:30pm - 4:45pm

Numerical Model Analysis of Laboratory Corona Tests of High Voltage Insulators and Hardware

STEPHEN BELL

K-LINE INSULATORS LTD, Canada


4:45pm - 5:00pm

Application of a Novel Test Method to Assess Hydrophobicity Transfer of Naturally Aged Composite Insulators

Peter Sidenvall1, Johan Lundengård1, Igor Gutman1, Luis Diaz2, André Deckwerth3, Kjell Halsan4, Mikko Jalonen5, Fabian Lehretz6, Michael Leonardsberger7, Lars Rasmussen8, Pablo Rodriguez9, Thomas Schiml10, Kübranur Varli11, Dan Windmar12

1Independent Insulation Group, Sweden; 2RTE, France; 350hertz, Germany; 4Statnett, Norway; 5Fingrid, Finland; 6TenneT, Germany; 7APG, Austria; 8Energinet, Denmark; 9Red Eléctrica, Spain; 10E.ON, Germany; 11Amprion, Germany; 12Svk, Sweden


5:00pm - 5:15pm

New implementation of 500kV lines on the South African network

Sanjay Narain, Kaveer Ramharak, Amish Roopnarain, Raeesa Khan

NTCSA, South Africa


5:15pm - 5:30pm

Methodology of Risk Assessment of Important Overhead Lines

Jialun yang1, Bin LIU1, Songyuan Cao2, Jian Wang1, Kuanjun Zhu1

1State Grid Eelectric Power Engineering Research Institute, China, People's Republic of China; 2Anhui Electric Power Company Limited, Hefei, Anhui, China


5:30pm - 5:45pm

Assessment of damage, lead time and costs for rebuilding distribution systems as part of a risk analysis in the event of a major ice storm

Nathalie Benoit

Hydro-Québec, Canada


5:45pm - 6:00pm

Sustainable solutions for ground-line decay prevention in wooden utility poles

Richard George

Polesaver, United Kingdom