Yan Zhang
Yufeng Tang
Yongqiang Liu
Zhaowen Liang- 1School of Information Science, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, Guangzhou, China
- 2School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Transformer is one of the important components of the power system, capable of transmitting and distributing the electricity generated by renewable energy sources. Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) is one of the effective techniques to diagnose early faults in oil-immersed transformers. It correlates the concentration and ratio of dissolved gases with transformer faults. Researchers have proposed many methods for fault diagnosis, such as double ratio method, Rogers method, Duval triangle method, etc., but all of them have some problems. Based on the strong data mining capability and good robustness of AI techniques, many researchers introduced AI techniques to mine the features of DGA data. According to the characteristics and scale of DGA data, researchers select appropriate AI techniques or make appropriate improvements to AI techniques to improve diagnostic performance. This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on the application of artificial intelligence techniques for DGA-based diagnosis and for solving intractable problems in early transformer fault diagnosis, which include neural networks, clustering, support vector machines, etc. In addition to reviewing the applications of these intelligent techniques, the diagnostic thinking proposed in this literature, such as the introduction of temporal parameters for comprehensive analysis of DGA data and the extraction of optimal features for DGA data, is also reviewed. Finally, this paper summarizes and prospects the artificial intelligence techniques applied by researchers in transformer fault diagnosis.
1 Introduction
The combined use of renewable and conventional energy sources reduces the proportion of fossil energy (Long et al., 2022). For the power grid, renewable energy is beneficial to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve energy efficiency, and achieve clean, efficient, reliable and economic power supply. Large-scale main transformers and medium and low voltage distribution transformers are widely distributed and occupy important positions in the power grid. For the non-linear, uncertain and highly complex distribution network heavily penetrated by renewable energy (Fu, 2022), the safety and reliability of transformers become particularly important. Many researchers perform fault diagnosis of transformers in terms of short-circuit impedance, frequency response, and many other aspects. These methods are off-line diagnosis methods. Although the accuracy or sensitivity of these methods is high, they cannot detect early transformer faults in time and waste human and material resources. Therefore, the researchers conducted online monitoring of the oil of the transformer, analyzed the dissolved gas in the oil, and then diagnosed the early fault of the transformer, and monitored the status of the transformer in real time.
Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) is a very effective diagnostic strategy that is widely used to diagnose early faults in oil-immersed transformers. In order to accurately diagnose transformer faults, researchers have proposed several DGA methods, including the critical gas method, Dornenburg ratio method, Rogers ratio method, IEC ratio method, Duval triangle method, etc. However, these methods have disadvantages such as coding defects, oversized coding boundaries, and critical value criterion defects, which affect the reliability of fault analysis. Each method has drawbacks, strict boundaries and hidden relationships (Yu et al., 2016). For example, the critical gas method requires the presence of a large amount of gas in the oil sample, which in some cases cannot be concluded. Therefore, improving the accuracy of identifying early transformer faults is a current research hotspot.
Intelligence techniques have now been widely used in transformer fault diagnosis with convincing results. Unlike traditional methods, artificial intelligence methods simulate the survival and other behaviors of living beings to make decisions and optimize real problems, and the methods target more general problem descriptions, which are generally more lacking in structural information, and are applicable to solve complex problems like transformer fault diagnosis. Intelligent techniques help to resolve the uncertainty of traditional DGA methods due to boundary problems and unresolved codes or multi-fault scenarios (Wani et al., 2021). Researchers have applied many artificial intelligence techniques to DGA fault diagnosis, such as neural networks (Duan and Liu, 2011; Wang et al., 2016; Qi et al., 2019; Yan et al., 2019; Yang et al., 2019, 2020; Luo et al., 2020; Velásquez and Lara, 2020; Mi et al., 2021; Taha et al., 2021; Zhou et al., 2021), support vector machine (SVM) (Wang and Zhang, 2017; Fang et al., 2018; Huang et al., 2018; Illias and Liang, 2018; Kari et al., 2018; Kim et al., 2019; Zeng et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2019; Zhang Y. et al., 2020; Benmahamed et al., 2021), and clustering (Islam et al., 2017; Li et al., 2018; Misbahulmunir et al., 2020). These techniques involve statistical machine learning, deep learning, etc. Statistical machine learning and deep learning are not only core issues in the field of artificial intelligence, but also one of the hot research directions in electrical engineering today (Fu et al., 2020). Researchers have applied these techniques not only to improve and enhance the DGA method only, but also to combine multiple techniques so as to enhance the robustness of the diagnosis method. In addition, researchers have also used intelligent techniques to mine the information in gas data and find the correlation between gas data and faults from them in order to detect early faults in transformers more accurately.
This study reviews artificial intelligence methods used to diagnose oil-immersed transformers in order to improve diagnostic performance of transformer and enhance the stability and reliability of operation. This paper introduces the intelligent techniques that should be used for fault diagnosis, and compares and analyzes these techniques. Some researchers have also done some reviews in this research topic. Ravi et al. (2019) analyze the application of artificial neural networks, support vector machines, decision trees and plain Bayes in transformer fault diagnosis from the literature spanning 10 years. The authors point out that the development of new algorithms is necessary to improve diagnostic accuracy. Taneja et al. (2016) review and summarize both traditional methods of DGA and DGA-based intelligence techniques and hope that future research in this area will not be limited to one diagnostic method. Ge et al. (2018) review the application of improved DGA methods in transformer fault diagnosis in terms of AI algorithms combined with DGA techniques, improvement of traditional DGA techniques, and statistical methods for DGA interpretation. The authors find that the visual graphical method is more effective in diagnosis compared to the traditional code method, but there is still room for improvement. Compared with these review articles, this paper highlights the following differences. First, this paper summarizes and analyzes more AI techniques, such as clustering, deep learning, and DS evidence theory. Second, this paper also summarizes the ideas of previous studies, such as the treatment of imbalanced data, the selection of the most optimal set of special features, the consideration of time as the key information, and the avoidance of information loss due to dimensionality reduction as much as possible. In addition to the selection and improvement of diagnostic methods, the processing of data is also a very important part of transformer fault diagnosis. The framework for improving DGA performance with AI techniques is shown in Figure 1.
FIGURE 1. Enhancing DGA performance with AI techniques.
The paper is organized as follows: Section 1 briefly discusses the traditional DGA method and its shortcomings, and shows the advantages of AI techniques that can compensate for the limitations of the traditional method. Section 2 analyzes the application of various AI techniques in transformer fault diagnosis. Specifically, neural networks, support vector machines, clustering, deep learning, and other techniques are included. Section 3 draws the conclusion, and the application of AI techniques in transformer fault diagnosis is prospected.
2 Enhancing dissolved gas analysis performance with appropriate improvements techniques
2.1 Neural networks
Neural networks can adequately approximate arbitrarily complex nonlinear relationships, and after learning from the initialized inputs and their relationships, it can also infer unknown relationships from unknown data, thus allowing the model to generalize and predict unknown data. Many researchers have combined neural networks with DGAs, such as RBF neural networks (Mi et al., 2021), probabilistic neural networks (PNN) (Yu et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2019, 2020), Elman neural networks (Duan and Liu, 2011), etc. Many researchers have also applied PNN to early fault diagnosis in transformers. However, the performance of PNN is largely influenced by the smoothing factor of its hidden layer elements, which can affect the classification performance (Yang et al., 2019). Taha et al. (2021) combines CNN with DGA in order to accurately predict the type of faults in transformers at different noise levels, up to 20% for each level. The results show that CNNs are more immune to noise and have optimal performance compared to other intelligent techniques. In addition, different input ratios lead to different prediction accuracies. Among them, the mixed ratios(conventional and five gas percentage ratios and new form six ratios together) as input to the CNN has the highest prediction accuracy of more than 92%.
In order to further improve the diagnostic accuracy of DGA, researchers also combine several artificial intelligence methods so as to improve the robustness and diagnostic accuracy of the diagnostic model. Among them, to enhance the diagnostic performance of PNN, intelligent optimization algorithms such as bat algorithm (BA) and gray wolf optimizer (GWO) can be used to optimize the smoothing factor (Zhou et al., 2021). Yan et al. (2019) combine BP neural network with improved Adaboost algorithm, then combined with PNN neural network to form a series of diagnostic models for transformer faults, and finally combined with dissolved gas in oil analysis for transformer fault diagnosis. Velásquez and Lara (2020) propose a new method with the lowest computational cost, using a genetic algorithm to optimize the ANN classifier, which is used to classify faults, replacing the traditional reinforcement learning (RL) action selection process with a genetic algorithm-based optimizer. Wang et al. (2016) establish a combination of intelligent methods for transformer fault diagnosis evaluation and neural network case inference based on a knowledge base and an oil chromatography fault diagnosis case base. Through practical tests, this integrated method proved to be effective in diagnosing potential faults inside transformers, avoiding the disadvantages of misclassification or incomplete coding of the traditional three-ratio method, and improving the accuracy of transformer fault diagnosis to a certain extent. However, this method has not been validated for sudden faults, and future research is needed to analyze sudden faults of transformers.
Dissolved gas concentrations can change over time. In order to track the dissolved gas concentration over time, researchers have adapted methods that can analyze time series. A new LSTM model (SDAE-LSTM) is proposed (Luo et al., 2020) to identify and parametrically analyze dissolved gases in the insulating oil of power transformers. SDAE has strong ability of mining the internal features of data and anti-interference ability. LSTM is able to selectively LSTM can selectively “memorize” data, which is suitable for processing time series data. Therefore, the model’s ability to “memorize” data makes it possible not only to detect changes in dissolved gas concentrations over time, but also to explore the internal characteristics of the gas data. In the concentration prediction, there is an obvious “time-shift” error in the prediction curve, which leads to the deviation of the prediction results from the actual data. Therefore, a deep recursive confidence network (DRBN) model is proposed by Qi et al. (2019), which incorporates an adaptive delay network in DBN. The model can effectively overcome the “time-shift” error, and the prediction accuracy can reach more than 95.16%.
The application of neural networks for fault diagnosis is shown in Figure 2.
FIGURE 2. Using neural networks in order to improve the performance of fault diagnosis.
2.2 Deep learning
Deep learning was proposed by Geoffrey Hinton et al. at the University of Toronto in 2006, and it was introduced into machine learning to bring it closer to its original goal—artificial intelligence. Compared with “shallow learning” methods such as support vector machines, boosting, and maximum entropy methods, deep learning performs more layers of nonlinear operations and breaks the traditional neural network limit on the number of layers. The feature data learned by deep learning models are more intrinsically representative of the original data, which greatly facilitates classification and visualization problems. Therefore, deep learning is increasingly popular among researchers in the field of transformer fault diagnosis. Cui et al. (2016) combine deep confidence network (DBN), BP neural network, DGA triple ratio and eigengas method and expert system to improve the reliability of diagnostic results and also demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of DBN for transformer fault diagnosis. Mehdipourpicha et al. (2019) use deep neural network (DNN) to identify the identified fault types of Duval triangles. The DNN achieved very high diagnostic accuracy compared to k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) algorithm and random forest algorithm for different data set sizes.
In addition to purely deep learning algorithms for transformer fault identification, researchers have proposed many diagnostic ideas. Liang et al. (2018) proposed a DBN-based DGA algorithm that automatically establishes a mapping relationship between the characteristic gas and the fault type. Different from the traditional data processing, the authors divided the DGA data into three categories: training data, fine-tuned data, and test data. For training data, the authors initialize the parameters of DBN by unsupervised learning. The fine-tuned data are used to fine-tune the parameters of the DBN. On the test data, DBN achieves good diagnostic accuracy. Compared with BP neural network, DBN has superior recognition accuracy and generalization ability. In practical situations, transformer fault data are not easy to collect, and thus the obtained data sets are usually unbalanced. Therefore, in order to solve the problem well and improve the recognition rate of fault types, many researchers have proposed some measures. Lopes et al. (2021) use the boundary SMOTE method for oversampling, thus balancing the dataset. The DNN incorporating the boundary SMOTE method has the highest diagnostic accuracy compared to the traditional DGA method, artificial neural network, and DNN trained with unbalanced data. Zhang L. et al. (2020) propose a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D CNN) model based on cost-sensitive learning, which focuses more on a small number of fault types. The cost matrix of this model was also optimized by a particle swarm algorithm in order to improve the diagnostic recognition rate. The final results show that the model is able to achieve the expected results with more accurate identification of the few classes, thus improving the identification accuracy of fault diagnosis. Obviously, processing for unbalanced data can achieve better results and is one of the hot spots of current research.
Figure 3 shows the framework diagram of deep learning-based fault diagnosis methods.
FIGURE 3. Deep learning-based fault dignosis methods.
2.3 Support vector machine
Support vector machine (SVM) is also widely used in fault diagnosis to improve the accuracy of fault classification. SVM is an effective method to deal with large dimensionality of independent variables without recalculating from initial conditions to obtain new decision boundaries (Kim et al., 2019). However, the classification accuracy using a single SVM is not very high. Therefore, many researchers have combined other intelligent methods with SVMs to effectively improve the classification performance and achieve convincing results. Illias and Liang (2018) propose an improved evolutionary particle swarm algorithm (Modified Evolutionary particle swarm optimization, MEPSO). EPSO combines particle swarm algorithm and evolutionary strategy by introducing variational operations that are able to preserve the superior properties of particles. In addition, the authors introduce the time-varying acceleration coefficient (TVAC) based on EPSO to improve the robustness of the algorithm. Finally, the SVM-MEPSO-TVAC method is obtained by mixing MEPSO with SVM. Kari et al. (2018) combine GA and SVM for optimizing parameters and selecting the best subset of features. The final results validate the robustness and generalization of the best feature subset selected by GA-SVM, thus verifying the availability and effectiveness of the best feature subset and GA-SVM. In addition, optimal diagnosis cannot be achieved by using a single class of features, and the introduction of some new features is necessary. Zhang Y. et al. (2020) point out that SVM can easily cause misclassification of samples distributed at decision boundaries, which leads to failure to accurately diagnose faults. Therefore, the authors combined GA, PSVM and fuzzy three-ratio (FTR) method to determine whether the samples are at the decision boundary or not by using probabilistic approach to diagnose the samples that are not at the decision boundary. And the samples that are at the decision boundary are diagnosed using FTR. This method improves the accuracy of fault diagnosis and has strong robustness. In addition, researchers have also combined computational intelligence techniques such as bat algorithm (BA) (Benmahamed et al., 2021) and gray wolf algorithm (Zeng et al., 2019) with SVM to obtain transformer fault diagnosis models with good results.
It is known that the selection of the optimal set of features can improve the performance of fault identification (Kari et al., 2018). Many researchers have proposed methods to select a subset of features and establish intelligent algorithms to optimize SVM for transformer fault diagnosis models, which can improve the reliability and robustness of diagnosis. Fang et al. (2018) establish the genetic-algorithm-SVM-feature-screen (GA-SVM-FS) model to screen out the hybrid DGA feature set. The accuracy of this feature set is 3–30% higher than the feature set formed by DGA gas or gas ratio. Then, the Improved Social Group Optimization-Support Vector Machine (ISGOSVM) Classifier was built for diagnosing transformer faults using OHFS as input, and compared with other models, the ISGOSVM Classifier achieved the best diagnostic accuracy compared to other models. Huang et al. (2018) propose a new intelligent diagnosis system for DGA, which is divided into a feature selection module and a fault diagnosis module, where the genetic algorithm-simulated annealing-SVM model is used for the feature selection module and the artificial bee colony-SVM model is used for the fault diagnosis. The results show that the method is reliable, and has a strong anti-interference capability. Zhang et al. (2019) use GA-SVM model to select the DGA feature set and optimized the parameters of SVM using Improved Krill Herd (IKH) Algorithm to establish IKHSVM fault diagnosis model. The results show that IKHSVM outperforms GASVM, BP neural network (BPNN) and PSOSVM.
In addition to algorithm improvement, the sample size of the transformer is also an aspect worth investigating. Different algorithms are applicable to data with different sample sizes. Choosing the appropriate algorithm according to the sample size can effectively improve the accuracy of transformer fault diagnosis. Wang and Zhang (2017) propose a transformer fault diagnosis method that divides the diagnosis process into two times. According to the size of the sample, multiple diagnostic models are used for the preliminary diagnosis, and then SVM is used for the secondary diagnosis. For the preliminary diagnosis, a combination of FA-GEP diagnostic model for large samples, SVM diagnostic model for small samples, and cloud object metamodel without creating samples as diagnostic models can effectively improve the diagnostic accuracy.
Improved SVM-based fault diagnosis methods is shown in Figure 4.
FIGURE 4. Improved SVM-based methods for fault diagnosis.
2.4 Clustering
Many clustering algorithms are widely used in transformer fault diagnosis. Researchers apply clustering algorithms to DGA data or combine with other data to be able to classify transformer faults effectively. Fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm (FCM clustering algorithm) is a classical method of clustering, but the clustering accuracy for dissolved gas data is not high enough to classify transformer faults accurately (Li et al., 2018). Therefore, Li et al. (2018) propose a new exponential similarity function and affiliation function for FCM clustering, and the new affiliation function has no local extrema, which is beneficial to the classification of the algorithm. The improved FCM clustering can identify transformer faults well and classify DGA data accurately, and the clustering performance of FCM is also improved. Self Organizing Map (SOM) clustering can be used to classify early transformer faults and can reflect the severity of transformer faults. It can organize data spatially while maintaining topological relationships among data features, which is useful for analyzing high-dimensional data (e.g., DGA data). In addition, 60% of the training data is sufficient to train the SOM with good diagnostic accuracy compared to supervised learning methods such as SVM, which improves the diagnostic sensitivity of the SOM (Misbahulmunir et al., 2020).
In addition to clustering algorithms alone, combining clustering algorithms with other intelligent techniques has been considered for transformer fault diagnosis. Islam et al. (2017) combine the k-Means Algorithm (KMA) with the k-Nearest neighbour (KNN) algorithm for the diagnosis of early transformer faults. The method first uses KMA to generate clusters and then uses the KNN algorithm to determine which clusters are closest to the unclassified dataset. The method is able to classify data that cannot be classified by Duval’s triangle with an accuracy of 93%, which is an important addition to Duval’s triangle. However, the method is still unable to classify dielectric and thermal hybrid faults effectively. Tang et al. (2018) propose a transformer anomaly detection method based on adaptive kernel fuzzy C-means clustering (KFCM) algorithm and kernel principal component analysis (KPCA). The method compares the projection of the old and new data and the change of the anomaly detection limit to determine whether there is an anomaly in the transformer according to the different operating states and the time lapse.
The framework diagram of the clustering methods applied by the researchers is shown in Figure 5.
FIGURE 5. Clustering methods for fault diagnosis.
2.5 Other techniques
In addition to neural networks, SVM and clustering, researchers have also applied other AI techniques in fault diagnosis, such as logistic regression (Almoallem et al., 2021) and association rules (Lee et al., 2013), with good results.
Decision trees have also been widely used to improve the accuracy of fault diagnosis by using DGA data to enhance fault classification. Decision tree algorithms have been shown to be effective in processing DGA data of oil-immersed transformers, outperforming SVM, Bayesian algorithms, and neural networks in terms of diagnostic performance. In addition, applying the decision tree algorithm to the KNIME platform greatly reduces the time spent compared to MATLAB (Han et al., 2016). The transformer fault diagnosis model based on the improved KNN algorithm and decision tree proposed by (Kherif et al., 2021) improves the number of neighbors and the type of distance of the KNN algorithm, thus improving the diagnostic accuracy of the model, with a final accuracy of 93.75%. Although combining the KNN algorithm with the decision tree principle has good robustness, the performance of the method is very dependent on the type of distance, the number of neighbors, and how to combine the responses of the neighbors.
D-S Evidence Theory (DET) is an information fusion method that has the ability to handle uncertain information. Compared with Bayesian theory, DET does not need to know the prior probability and can represent “uncertainty” well, so it is widely used to deal with uncertain data. The transformer fault diagnosis problem can be viewed as a multi-attribute decision problem, so DET is well suited to solve this problem. However, when there is a high degree of conflicting evidence, it falls into Zadeh’s paradox and cannot reasonably assign Basic Probability Assignment (BPA) to the conflicting quantities. To address this problem, researchers have introduced DS evidence theory with appropriate improvements so that it can be used to accurately diagnose potential transformer failures and avoid misdiagnosis as much as possible. Shang et al. (2019) introduce weight coefficients to readjust the BPA to obtain the Improved D-S Evidence Theory (IDET), thus avoiding the difficulty in resolving conflicting evidence. In addition, to enrich the information sources and improve the accuracy of diagnosis, before using DET for the final diagnosis, the introduction of hypersphere multiclass support vector machine (HMSVM), hybrid immune algorithm (HIA) and kernel extreme learning machine (KELM) for preliminary diagnosis of DGA data, and if the diagnosis results are consistent, the results are output directly. Otherwise, the diagnostic models of the three models need to be used as input and IDET is used for comprehensive diagnosis to obtain the final diagnostic results. The results show that the diagnostic accuracy of HMSVM is higher compared with HIA and KELM. IDET overcomes the problem of high conflict among evidences, and the diagnostic accuracy of using it to fuse multiple data sources is higher than 94%, which is better than that of a single method.
Fuzzy logic has also been used by researchers in DGA fault diagnosis. Fuzzy logic can be used to diagnose the severity of faults and provide guidance to technicians to measure the overall condition of the transformer so that reasonable maintenance measures can be developed to prevent faults from occurring. Poonnoy et al. (2021) fuse fuzzy logic with each of the three DGA algorithms to identify transformer faults and their severity. The fuzzy logic allows the calculation of the fault index percentage, a parameter that gives a good indication of the severity of transformer faults. However, the performance of pure fuzzy logic is not very good. Malik et al. (2020) fuse fuzzy theory with reinforcement learning (RL) as a classifier for early transformer faults. For accurate classification, the most appropriate variables are selected as input to the fuzzy RL classifier using J48 algorithm for DGA data. The experimental results show that the fuzzy RL classifier achieves 99.7% fault identification accuracy, which is significantly better than other soft computing methods.
Malik and Mishra (2016) use Gene Expression Programming (GEP) for DGA fault diagnosis, which is widely used for data classification problems. The performance of DGA data processed with this method is much better than IEC/IEEE, fuzzy logic, ANN, and SVM methods. However, the accuracy of the GEP model for diagnosis suffers when detecting multiple faults, and using more DGA data for training can only improve this situation (Abu-Siada, 2019).
As analyzed in the previous paper, time is also one of the important information for transformer fault diagnosis, because dissolved gas in oil changes with time, and if this factor of time is ignored, then part of the information for fault diagnosis will be lost. Jiang et al. (2019) state that Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is a suitable solution for time-dependent modeling. Solving the transfer probabilities of different health conditions by HMM enables short-term prediction of transformer faults.
In industry, visual inspection to diagnose early faults in transformers requires huge costs, and therefore, most DGA data are unlabeled. To deal with this sparse labeled data, Misbahulmunir et al. (2020) use SOM to perform dimensionality reduction and to cluster adjacent data. However, Kim et al. (2020) point out that dimensionality reduction leads to the loss of key information, while clustering does not guarantee the correlation between high-level features. Therefore, a semi-supervised autoencoder with an auxiliary task (SAAT) is proposed for DGA fault diagnosis. semi-supervised autoencoder (SSAE) generates a 2D health SAAT is an auxiliary detection task inserted in the loss function of SSAE to detect faults and normal states and to visualize health degradation features. In addition, the model does not require additional dimensionality reduction and allows direct visualization of high-level features in 2D. Experimental results show that SAAT outperforms principal component analysis, sparse autoencoder (SAE), and deep belief network (DBN) in terms of health degradation performance results by being above 90% in all metrics of fault detection and identification.
3 Conclusion and prospect
This paper reviews the application of artificial intelligence techniques in transformer DGA fault diagnosis. Artificial intelligence techniques diagnose faults by mining the relationship that exists between dissolved gases in oil and transformer faults. Researchers have proposed various diagnostic methods from different aspects to improve the accuracy of fault diagnosis. Among them, many researchers improve the existing intelligent algorithms by adjusting a certain part of the algorithm or combining the corresponding strategies of other intelligent algorithms so as to enhance the robustness of the algorithm. Although this can improve the accuracy of fault diagnosis, it does not do much work on analyzing DGA data and is not targeted enough. Some researchers have been able to effectively improve fault identification performance by selecting appropriate algorithms based on the size of the DGA data. In addition, researchers also found that time plays an important role in DGA fault diagnosis because dissolved gas in oil changes with time, and ignoring the factor of time can lead to loss of information. Therefore, researchers have adopted LSTM, DRBN, HMM, which can analyze time series for fault diagnosis, so as to effectively extract fault features or overcome “time-shift” errors. Artificial intelligence methods have strong data mining capability, but for classification problems, when a new fault appears, artificial intelligence methods will classify the new fault with existing faults based on previous experience data, which will lead to a decrease in diagnostic accuracy. In addition, the DGA data does not fully reflect the transformer status, and it needs to be combined with new monitoring data for a more effective fault diagnosis of the transformer.
Author contributions
YZ: Conceptualization. YT: Writing—original draft. YZ, YL and ZL: Writing—review and editing. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This review was funded by 2022 special projects in key fields of general colleges and universities in Guangdong Province under Grant number 2022ZDZX1010, 2022 Higher Education Scientific Research Planning Project (Key Project) under Grant number 22SY0205.
Conflict of interest
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Keywords: fault diagnosis, power transformer, artificial intelligence, data mining, dissolved gas analysis
Citation: Zhang Y, Tang Y, Liu Y and Liang Z (2022) Fault diagnosis of transformer using artificial intelligence: A review. Front. Energy Res. 10:1006474. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2022.1006474
Received: 29 July 2022; Accepted: 29 August 2022;
Published: 23 September 2022.
Edited by:
Xueqian Fu, China Agricultural University, ChinaReviewed by:
Bo Liu, Kansas State University, United StatesChen Zhao, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, China
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