M. Dhotre, X. Ye, S. Kotilainen, M. Schwinne, R. Bini
{"title":"CFD simulation for a self-blast high voltage circuit breaker: Mixing and heat transfer","authors":"M. Dhotre, X. Ye, S. Kotilainen, M. Schwinne, R. Bini","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996214","url":null,"abstract":"Application of CFD for prediction of gas mixing in heating volume and heat transfer in exhaust parts for high voltage circuit breakers is presented. Simulation results and their comparison with measurements are shown and discussed. Based on the simulations, design of heating volume and heat transfer cooling mechanism is discussed.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122284813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of various transformations to extract characteristic parameters from vibration signal monitoring of power transformer","authors":"B. S. Munir, J. Smit","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996164","url":null,"abstract":"Vibration Analysis has been beneficial for monitoring and assessment of High Voltage Transformer winding and core condition. A lot of research has been conducted to extract useful information from the vibration signals using various transformation methods. In this paper, several methods are evaluated to determine which method is better in providing consistent and reliable parameters to be used as a fingerprint for the transformer condition. The evaluation is conducted using a set of vibration signals taken sequentially with the same condition. The first evaluated method is Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) which is generally and effectively used to compute Discrete Fourier Transform. This method decomposes the vibration signal into various signals with different frequency and amplitude. The second evaluated method is Hilbert Huang Transform (HHT) which separated vibration signal into a finite and small number of Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMF) before applying Hilbert Transform. Since HHT has some intrinsic shortcomings a third method is evaluated which combine Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT) with HHT. WPT is used to decompose the vibration signal into a set of narrow band before being screened to have only the greatest energy signal. Furthermore HHT is applied to the signal after being recomposed. The evaluation result shows that only the main frequency signal can be used as a consistent and reliable parameter to construct fingerprints of the power transformer condition.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132114846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computer aided design of an end corona protection system for accelerated voltage endurance testing at increased line frequency","authors":"C. Staubach, S. Kempen, F. Pohlmann, F. Jenau","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996140","url":null,"abstract":"Due to highly nonlinear material characteristics the design of end corona protection systems (ecp-system) is a time consuming process. In order to accelerate this process a finite element model is developed. The model takes the nonlinear electrical and thermal coupled material properties into account. Furthermore it is able to calculate the electric and thermal behaviour of a painted or taped ecp-system. In this paper a special model is used to design a 500 Hz ecp-system. The paper quantifies why it is not possible to apply the ecp-system that was designed for power frequency also at a ten times higher frequency. Such a system is needed to accelerate the determination of the voltage endurance characteristics enabling the qualifying process of new or modified stator groundwall insulation of large turbine generators. In the first step the electrical and thermal behaviour of the insulation system with an existing ecp-configuration (50 Hz and rated voltage of 27 kV) is recalculated for an increased frequency of 500 Hz and 33 kV. In the next step an optimized layout is calculated with a new numerical algorithm, which is implemented in the finite element calculation and being efficient with calculation time. The newly developed design is verified by a test setup operating at 500 Hz and the electrical field strength distribution and temperature profile is measured.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"13 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132771527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Ziomek, K. Vijayan, D. Boyd, K. Kuby, M. Franchek
{"title":"High voltage power transformer insulation design","authors":"W. Ziomek, K. Vijayan, D. Boyd, K. Kuby, M. Franchek","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996148","url":null,"abstract":"The large power transformer life span depends heavily on insulation — its condition, materials, composition, geometry, etc. The high voltage transformer insulation requires a very focused analysis in the design stage. The large power transformer is subjected to different overvoltages during factory testing and in operation, therefore all resulting electric stresses have to be modeled in the electric field program and compared to the industry accepted withstand curves. The overvoltages include transient voltages from impulse testing, both lightning and switching, as well as power frequency voltages generated during the induced and applied voltage tests. The distributions of electric stresses under these different electric excitation conditions are different. The transient voltage programs with MLCR components (mutual- and self-inductance, capacitance, resistance) are used to establish exact voltage distribution inside the transformer. The electric field analysis for complex units is performed for all energized components, including turn-to-turn, section-to-section, winding-to-winding, winding to core, phase-to-phase, between leads, from winding and leads to constructional parts, bushing to tank, etc. The electric stresses are checked under two main conditions: (i) strike in oil, (ii) creeping discharge along solid insulation. The paper will discuss the analysis for selected transformers and explain the design process needed to maintain the dielectric stresses under critical values.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127403729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Locating partial discharge sources in high voltage transformer windings","authors":"P. Lewin, I. Golosnoy, R. Mohamed","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996145","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of partial discharge (PD) measurement data obtained using radio frequency current transducers (RFCT) incorporated into the external earthing connections (i.e bushing tap points and neutral to earth connections) offers the possibility of on-line condition monitoring of large transformers. A method for locating PD sources in windings has been developed, based on analysis of differential equations that model the propagation of PD signals from the source to the measurement point. Analysis reveals that if the discharge at the source is assumed to be impulse-like, then the form of the response at the measurement points can be simulated as a function of source location along the winding. If all parameters of the winding are known then it is possible to model the response, however, in the field this is often not the case. So the method developed here uses information from the PD measurements themselves to estimate the unknown coefficients required to simulate the likely discharge currents. With these estimates it is then possible to compare PD measurement information with simulation data in order to identify the most likely location of a PD source. An experiment based on a section of high voltage winding has been used to produce PD measurement data and to validate the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128737163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) dynamic modeling for high voltage insulation","authors":"M. Ghassemi, H. Mohseni, K. Niayesh, A. Shayegani","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996137","url":null,"abstract":"One of the best approaches in order to significantly increase the dielectric strength of an air-insulated system is the creation of an \"active\" insulation by means of covering some of or all metal conductors with thin layers of solid dielectric (barriers) known as Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD). Charge accumulation on the surfaces of the dielectric layers leads to changes in the electric field distribution and, hence, in the electric loading (potential drop) of the different parts of the insulation system. This paper presents a developed model for charge transfer in homogeneous electrode systems consisting of a gas gap between two parallel-plates. The electron number density and mean electron energy are computed with the drift-diffusion physics. For non-electron species, heavy species transport theory is employed. These equations are coupled with Poisson's equation for computing electric fields affected by temporal and spatial variations of space charges in the system. This model is used to predict the maximum insulation withstand voltage of gas insulated systems with barriers.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125338561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chao Zhang, S. Rigby, Robert C. Kempke, C. L. Fellers, Marco J. Mason, Xiaoyi Shen
{"title":"Evaluation of surface alteration of polypropylene film for power capacitors","authors":"Chao Zhang, S. Rigby, Robert C. Kempke, C. L. Fellers, Marco J. Mason, Xiaoyi Shen","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996210","url":null,"abstract":"In polypropylene film insulated power capacitors, the surface alteration of the polypropylene film is critical to the electrical performance of the capacitors. Currently, the industry uses space factor to characterize the surface alteration. In this study, the authors investigated the surface alteration of three different polypropylene films used for power capacitors with a Keyence VK9700 3D laser microscope. The three polypropylene films have similar space factor values, similar nominal thickness and film surface alteration requirements. The study finds that the three polypropylene films have many significant differences in the morphology of the surface alteration structure and values of roughness parameters which indicate the limitations of the space factor methodology in fully characterizing surface alteration. The results show that the VK9700 laser microscope can provide much clearer film surface pictures and can provide much more surface alteration information than the ordinary optical microscope.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125409886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel spirally-wound insulation for straight HVDC conductors to avoid voltage stress inversion","authors":"R. Faulkner, E. Ildstad","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996213","url":null,"abstract":"Elpipes are polymer-insulated underground HVDC conductors designed for higher efficiency than is practical for overhead power lines (1% I2R loss/1000 km), based on rigid conductor segment modules linked together by flexible splice modules. Because elpipes are not wrapped on a reel for transport, they can use far more conductor than cables or overhead power lines, typically 3–18 times more than in an overhead HVDC transmission line. The rigid nature of the segment modules enables compact rigid insulations for the segment modules such as ceramic, glass, or spirally wrapped polymer films in which one polymer layer is stiff, and the other elastomeric. Such high stiffness insulating pipes (Fig. 1) could not be used as cable insulations because they are not flexible enough to be wrapped on a reel. We examine a spirally wrapped insulation consisting of two layers: a good insulator and a semiconductor.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116673452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epoxy-anhydride VPI resin with low viscosity and application in 5MW permanent magnet synchronous wind-driven generators","authors":"Zeng Caiping, Xia Yu","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996134","url":null,"abstract":"A new type of epoxy-anhydride insulation VPI resin (JF-9955) with a very low viscosity is developed. This new kind of epoxy-anhydride VPI resin with very low viscosity can be applied for VPI coils at room temperature. The properties of bars impregnated with this resin are tested and compared with conventional Epoxy Ester-Styrene system and unsaturated polyesterimide vinyltoluene (VT) system. The results indicate that all the electrical insulation properties are much better than that of those conventional VPI systems. And this new kind of epoxy-anhydride VPI resin is used in the impregnation of stator windings for the 5MW permanent magnet synchronous wind-driven generators. The properties of coils and generators are tested, and all the results indicate that the insulation properties of the stator windings impregnated with this VPI resin are up to the designed requirements. The 5MW permanent magnet synchronous wind-driven generators treated with this epoxy-anhydride insulation VPI resins (JF-9955) have been completed and off the production line successfully in Xiangtan Electric Manufacturing Corporation Ltd.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125666610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of the insulating supports in medium voltage dry-type transformers","authors":"V. González, P. Gómez, F. Espino-cortes","doi":"10.1109/EIC.2011.5996113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC.2011.5996113","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a study of the parameters that affect the breakdown voltage in dry-type transformer is performed. The effect of the high operation temperatures of the transformer on the voltage breakdown in the insulating supports is investigated and the electric field distribution on different profiles of these supports is modeled using Finite Element Method (FEM). A design of the insulating support that can help to reduce its length without increasing the possibility of breakdown is discussed.","PeriodicalId":129127,"journal":{"name":"2011 Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC).","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125738101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}