Electric field and potential distributions along non-ceramic insulators with water droplets

Author(s):  
Weiguo Que ◽  
S.A. Sebo
Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1157
Author(s):  
Yong Liu ◽  
Xingwang Huang

Ceramic outdoor insulators play an important role in electrical insulation and mechanical support because of good chemical and thermal stability, which have been widely used in power systems. However, the brittleness and surface discharge of ceramic material greatly limit the application of ceramic insulators. From the perspective of sintering technology, flash sintering technology is used to improve the performance of ceramic insulators. In this paper, the simulation model of producing the ceramic insulator by the flash sintering technology was set up. Material Studio was used to study the influence of electric field intensity and temperature on the alumina unit cell. COMSOL was used to study the influence of electric field intensity and current density on sintering speed, density and grain size. Obtained results showed that under high temperature and high voltage, the volume of the unit cell becomes smaller and the atoms are arranged more closely. The increase of current density can result in higher ceramic density and larger grain size. With the electric field intensity increasing, incubation time shows a decreasing tendency and energy consumption is reduced. Ceramic insulators with a higher uniform structure and a smaller grain size can show better dielectric performance and higher flashover voltage.


2011 ◽  
Vol 130-134 ◽  
pp. 3276-3279
Author(s):  
Zong Xi Zhang ◽  
Shan Feng Yin

With the accelerating construction of strong smart grid, and the grid voltage level rising, performance requirements for the electrical insulation of electrical equipment also continue to increase. In terms of the advantages of RTV on antifouling, RTV-based paints coated insulator coating capacity of its flash tolerance can significantly increase, mainly due to RTV coating hydrophobic hydrophobicity and migration. But when the hydrophobic surface is in the fully wet, many small drops of water in the surface will be gathered into big drops of water, and these large droplets will distort the surface electric field of the medium. So the flashover voltage of the hydrophobic surface’s separated water droplets under DC electric field are analyzed comparatively in this paper, while some influencing factors such as different medias and volume of water drops, are introduced in specific experiments, and their effects on the flashover voltage are analyzed; under DC electric field experiment on the surface of hydrophobic and hydrophilic surface flashover voltage drops separation characteristics were studied.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1025-1026 ◽  
pp. 803-808
Author(s):  
Sackthavy Chandavong ◽  
Kittipong Tonmitr ◽  
Arkom Kaewrawang

This paper presents the comparison of water droplets on insulating surface under alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) electric field. Besides that, it is demonstrated about the insulator deterioration under both electric field stressed due to an ageing and partial discharge (PD) phenomenon. The vital parameters factors are water droplets conductivity, droplet volume, surface roughness and droplet positioning that they cause to occur the electric field intensification. The field is intensified at the interface between the droplet, air and insulating material. Thus, the PD occurred due to electric field intensification increases with the deformed droplet. The deformation of water droplet under AC electric field stress is more intense than DC field. The electrostatic forces change the droplet shapes and spread them along the electric field direction. The local electric field intensification provokes the PD giving way to reduction of hydrophobicity of insulator surfaces. In addition, the PD activity could appear as a trigger for a surface breakdown. And the localized arcs cause damage to insulating material then finally leads to deterioration of insulation materials and the pollutant contamination.


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