Development of the Thermal Equivalent Circuit for Evaluating the Capacity of High Voltage Cables in Real Time

The authors of this paper justify the construction of the thermal equivalent circuit for a three-phase high voltage cable line that describes the transient thermal processes in the cross section of the line. According to the authors, the proposed scheme, if taken as a basis, allows to solve the task of evaluating the power capacity of high-voltage cable lines in real-time and predict heating of cables with the aim to prevent thermal degradation of the insulation.