Abstract:The voiceprint signal generated by partial discharge faults in dry-type transformers has non-stationary and multi-component modulation characteristics, making it difficult to effectively extract key features such as transient pulse components, resonance frequency distribution, and spatial directionality in noisy environments, which reduces the accuracy of fault state detection. Therefore, a partial discharge fault detection method for dry-type transformers based on improved ResNet18 and voiceprint SDP is proposed. Based on the voiceprint characteristics of partial discharge faults in dry-type transformers, real-time voiceprint signals are collected through voiceprint sensors and processed by SDP (spectral decomposition) to generate time-frequency and spatial spectrograms of the voiceprint signals. By optimizing the input layer, convolution layer, residual layer, attention mechanism layer, and fully connected layer, the ResNet18 model is improved by introducing two feature extraction paths, one for extracting time-domain features of voiceprint signals and the other for extracting frequency-domain features. The time-domain path uses stacked residual blocks to capture long-term dependencies and transient pulse components, while the frequency-domain path uses deformable convolutional layers to flexibly adjust the shape of the convolution kernel, better capturing frequency-domain features such as resonance frequency distribution and spatial directionality. Based on the time-frequency and spatial spectrograms of the voiceprint signals of dry-type transformers, an improved ResNet18 model is used to develop a diagnosis program for partial discharge faults in dry-type transformers. The final partial discharge fault status determination results (mild, moderate, severe, and severe) are obtained, thereby achieving effective detection of partial discharge faults in dry-type transformers. The experimental results showed that after applying the design method, the maximum accuracy of partial discharge fault state detection reached 99.5%, and the extracted voiceprint signal time-frequency map tended to be consistent with the actual voiceprint signal time-frequency map. The partial discharge fault state determination result was the same as the labeled result of the test sample.