The electrical breakdown characteristics of oil-paper insulation under steep front impulse voltages
- Powertech Labs Inc., Surrey, British Columbia (Canada)
- Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
Disconnecting switch operations in gas insulated equipment cause transient voltages with rise times as steep as 5 to 20 nanoseconds and magnitudes as high as 2.5 pu. There is very little information on the effect of these transients on oil-paper insulated equipment. There have been reports, however of transformer and bushing failures caused by these transients. The electrical breakdown characteristics of oil-paper insulation under steep front impulse were studied in this project, which was co-sponsored by the Canadian Electrical Association and B.C. Hydro. V[sub 50] (50% breakdown probability voltage) breakdown data was obtained with steep front (10 ns/2500 [mu]s), lightning and switching impulse waveforms. Insulation breakdown voltage vs breakdown time (V-t) data and multiple impulse breakdown data were obtained with the steep front impulse waveform. The V[sub 50] results showed that the breakdown strengths were lower for steep front impulses than for lightning impulses. The multiple impulse breakdown results showed that oil-paper insulation breakdown strength can be lower than 100 kV/mm. These results are alarming, since they suggest that oil-paper insulated equipment subjected to steep front transients will fail at voltages below the lightning impulse design level (BIL). The Volt-time data had a discontinuity. The breakdown process at risetime below about 50 ns was different from the breakdown process at rise times above 50 ns.
- OSTI ID:
- 6808704
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 9:4; ISSN 0885-8977
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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