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Streamer initiation and propagation in insulating oil in weakly non-uniform fields under impulse conditions

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OSTI ID:529620
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  1. Univ. of Karlsruhe (Germany). Inst. of Electric Energy Systems and High-Voltage Technology

This paper deals with the investigation of prebreakdown phenomenon in insulating oil in weakly non-uniform fields of rod-plane geometries with gaps up to 100 mm under impulse voltages of both polarities up to 700 kV. As with the point-plane configuration, the rod-plane geometry shows a decrease of the time to breakdown with increasing voltage rate-of-rise. At a specific rate, a significantly shorter breakdown time is observed both for positive and negative polarities. Beyond this discontinuity range breakdown time decreases again but with lower rates.

OSTI ID:
529620
Report Number(s):
CONF-960614--; ISBN 0-7803-3531-7
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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