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However, when online PD measurements are carried out in electrical facilities, several disadvantages must be considered. Among the most important are high levels of changing electrical noise and interferences, signal phase couplings (cross-talk phenomena), and the simultaneous presence of various defects and difficulties in localizing and identifying them. In the last few decades, various PD-measuring systems have been developed to deal with these inconveniences and try to achieve the adequate supervision of electrical installations. In the state of the art, one of the main problems that electrical companies and technology developers face is the difficulty in characterizing the measuring system\u2019s functionalities in laboratory setups or in real-world facilities, where simulated or real defects must be detected. This is mainly due to the complexity and costs that the laboratory setups entail and the fact that the facilities are permanently in service. Furthermore, in the latter scenario, owners cannot assign facilities to carry out the tests, which could cause irreversible damage. Additionally, with the aforementioned installations, a comparison of results over time in various locations is not possible, and noise conditions cannot be controlled to perform the characterizations in a correct way. To deal with the problems indicated, in this article, an affordable scale modular test platform that simulates an HV installation is presented, where real on-site PD measuring conditions are simulated and controlled. In this first development, the HV installation comprises a cable system connected at both ends to a gas-insulated substation (GIS). As the most common acquisition technique in online applications is based on the placement of high-frequency current transformer (HFCT) sensors in the grounding cables of facilities, the test platform is mainly adapted to carry out measurements with this type of sensor. The designed and developed test platform was validated to assess its features and the degree of convergence with a real installation, showing the convenience of its use for the appropriate and standardized characterization of PD-measuring systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24051363","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,21]],"date-time":"2024-02-21T04:23:10Z","timestamp":1708489390000},"page":"1363","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Scale Modular Test Platform for the Characterization of PD Measuring Systems Using HFCT Sensors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Eduardo","family":"Arcones","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid, Ronda de Valencia 3, 28012 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1944-9823","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fernando","family":"\u00c1lvarez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid, Ronda de Valencia 3, 28012 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Abderrahim","family":"Khamlichi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid, Ronda de Valencia 3, 28012 Madrid, Spain"},{"name":"FFII-LCOE (Laboratorio Central Oficial de Electrotecnia), C\/Eric Kandel 1, 28906 Getafe, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fernando","family":"Garnacho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid, Ronda de Valencia 3, 28012 Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Haddad, A., and Warne, D.F. 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