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However, most existing denoising algorithms are unable to reduce various noises simultaneously. Meanwhile, these methods pay little attention to the feature preservation. To solve this problem, a new denoising method for UHF PD signals is proposed. Firstly, an automatic selection method of mode number for the variational mode decomposition (VMD) is designed to decompose the original signal into a series of band limited intrinsic mode functions (BLIMFs). Then, a kurtosis-based judgement rule is employed to select the effective BLIMFs (eBLIMFs). Next, a singular spectrum analysis (SSA)-based thresholding technique is presented to suppress the residual white noise in each eBLIMF, and the final denoised signal is synthesized by these denoised eBLIMFs. To verify the performance of our method, UHF PD data are collected from the computer simulation, laboratory experiment and a field test, respectively. Particularly, two new evaluation indices are designed for the laboratorial and field data, which consider both the noise suppression and feature preservation. The effectiveness of the proposed approach and its superiority over some traditional methods is demonstrated through these case studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19071594","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,3]],"date-time":"2019-04-03T03:39:28Z","timestamp":1554262768000},"page":"1594","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["A New Denoising Method for UHF PD Signals Using Adaptive VMD and SSA-Based Shrinkage Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Jun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junjia","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8320-3855","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiachuan","family":"Long","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Wuhan Donghu University, Wuhan 430212, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Min","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Wuhan Donghu University, Wuhan 430212, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Metrology Department, China Electric Power Research Institute, Wuhan 430074, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"107","DOI":"10.1016\/j.renene.2017.06.089","article-title":"Condition monitoring and fault detection in wind turbines based on cointegration analysis of SCADA data","volume":"116","author":"Dao","year":"2018","journal-title":"Renew. 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