Abstract:As the power supply intensity keeps growing in large cities,the gas - insulated metal - enclosed transmission line ( GIL) has been widely used in urban substations. Especially in the ultra - large cities such as Shanghai,GIL has gradually substituted the traditional open - type bus benefited from its large capacity and smaller space demand. However,several partial discharge faults have occurred on the support insulator during the operation. A finite element model is established and the mechanism of partial discharge is simulated. With the calculation result,an effective improvement scheme is proposed. The model simulation and practical implementation show that the improvement scheme can eliminate the partial discharge on support insulator,which can greatly improve the operation reliability of GIL.