Ricerc@Sapienza

An optimized system management of a commercial and industrial power system must take care of the actual operational and energetic duty of the power system distribution. A procedure based on the Arrhenius model of the Thermal Aging of Insulating Materials allows introducing the relative time coefficient (RTC) and promoting a heuristic method, as a rule of thumb, to estimate the life loss and the residual useful life for insulated power cables.

An optimized system management of a power system must take care of the actual operational and energetic duty of the power system distribution, promoting a high efficiency of power cables and avoiding their excessive gap on load and gap on lifetime. A procedure based on the Arrhenius model of the Thermal Aging of Insulating Materials allows implementing a tool to calculate the life loss and the residual useful life for insulated power cables. The paper deals with simplified models to evaluate the power cable temperature behavior considering the load current variable in the time.