DC Electrical Trees in Polymer Insulation Inflicted by Rapidly Decreasing Short Circuit Voltage Flanks
Paper i proceeding, 2022

This work aims to study the appearance and changes in the partial discharge pattern due to electrical treeing degradation of XLPE, a copolymer blend, crosslinked through a byproduct-free curing reaction, and LDPE when exposed to a series of high voltage short circuits. A wire-plane type test object has been employed and the presence of electrical trees were detected visually and by measuring the partial discharge (PD) activity. It was observed that PD characteristics changed with increased number of short circuit events. In particular, both the summed amount of PD magnitudes as well as the number of PDs increased due to the growth of electrical trees. These results were in good agreement with the hypothesis of electromechanical stresses analogue to mechanical crack formation which increase the volume of the defects thus affecting the PD characteristics. Additionally, clear differences in the phase distribution of PDs were observed that allows to use them as indicators of material performance and as complement to DC conductivity measurements and frequency domain spectroscopy.

Författare

Thomas Hammarström

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Elkraftteknik

Sarath Kumara

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Elkraftteknik

Xiangdong Xu

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Elkraftteknik

Amir Masoud Pourrahimi

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Christian Müller

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Tillämpad kemi

Yuriy Serdyuk

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Elkraftteknik

ICD 2022 - IEEE 2022 4th International Conference on Dielectrics, Proceedings

154-157
978-1-6654-1833-1 (ISBN)

2022 IEEE 4th International Conference on Dielectrics (ICD)
Palermo, Italy,

Advanced characterization of new insulation materials for next generation of HVDC power cables

Chalmers, 2019-01-01 -- 2020-12-31.

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Ämneskategorier

Medicinsk laboratorie- och mätteknik

Textil-, gummi- och polymermaterial

Annan kemiteknik

Styrkeområden

Energi

Materialvetenskap

Infrastruktur

Infrastruktur för kemisk avbildning

Chalmers materialanalyslaboratorium

DOI

10.1109/ICD53806.2022.9863220

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