Can air pollution affect/create losses in the Power system? If yes then please specify How?
Yes the air pollution affect losses in the power systems because the pollution favorise and active the corona effect.
The last phenomenon is a very main causes for the losses power in the ovehead power lines.
The critical voltage of the appearance of the corona is highly dependent on atmospheric conditions and the state of the surface of the conductors.
You can easily test this dependence in formulas Peek and Peterson.
Thank you sir,
Is there any effect on the protection system due to the pollution?
Absolutely, circumvention of insulators chains that causes back flashover in the electric lines, is one of the major effects of pollution
In industrial area dust deposition THD,which result in higher loss