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These conditions over time lead to unforeseen failures caused by various types of defects. For this reason, there are several technologies for measuring and monitoring the electrical systems, with the aim of minimizing the number of faults. The early detection of defects, preferably in their incipient state, will enable the necessary corrective actions to be taken in order to avoid unforeseen failures. These failures generally lead to human risks and material damage, lack of power supply and significant economic losses. An efficient maintenance technique for the early detection of defects consists of the supervision of the dielectrics status in the installations by means of on-line partial discharge (PD) measurement. Nowadays, there are numerous systems in the market for the measurement of PD in HV installations. The most efficient with a reasonable cost will be those that offer greater security guarantees and the best positioned in the market. Currently, technology developers and users of PD measuring systems face difficulties related to the lack of reference procedures for their complete characterization and to the technical and economic drawback of performing the characterization tests on site or in laboratory installations. To deal with the previous difficulties, in this paper a novel method for the complete and standardized characterization of PD measuring systems is presented. The applicability of this method is mainly adapted for the characterization of systems operating in on-line applications using high-frequency current transformer (HFCT) sensors. For the appropriate application of the method, an associated and necessary scale modular test platform is used. In the test platform, the real on-site measuring conditions of an HV insulated distribution line are simulated in a controlled way. Practical characterizations, showing the convenience and advantages of applying the method using the modular test platform, are also presented.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24123788","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,11]],"date-time":"2024-06-11T12:11:00Z","timestamp":1718107860000},"page":"3788","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Novel Reference Method 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":"Javier","family":"Ortego","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ingenier\u00eda El\u00e9ctrica, Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid, Ronda de Valencia 3, 28012 Madrid, Spain"},{"name":"AMPACIMON, C\/de la Antracita, 7, Nave 15, 28045 Madrid, 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":[[2024,6,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2016). 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