Yang Zhang, Yongbin Liu, Chao Tang, R. Yao, Yu-Hang Fan, Jinghui Gao, L. Zhong
{"title":"Enhanced thermal stability of electrical properties in PVDF/PMMA blend","authors":"Yang Zhang, Yongbin Liu, Chao Tang, R. Yao, Yu-Hang Fan, Jinghui Gao, L. Zhong","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437384","url":null,"abstract":"Electrostatic energy storage devices with high energy density play an important role in the rapid development of modern electronic technology, especially in pulse power supply devices, hybrid vehicle power systems. The thermal stability of the polymer structure is crucial to achieve stable energy density of ferroelectric polymer capacitors at high temperature. In this work, poly (vinylidene fluoride)/polymethyl methacrylate (PVDF/PMMA) blends of different additions are used to obtain better thermal stability and temperature stability of electrical properties. PVDF/PMMA composites with different components (90/10, 86.5/13.5, 83/17, 80/20 in mass ratio) were researched. It was found that PVDF/PMMA (80/20) had a higher breakdown strength (Eb=288.5kV/mm) and lower conductivity at 70°C. The energy density of the blend is about 4.82J/cm3, which is about 3 times that of polypropylene. Our research provides an idea for the development of dielectric materials with high energy storage density and thermal stability.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123826955","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":"Application of Dynamic Greyscale Threshold Algorithm to Enhance Fractal Analysis of Streamers in Insulating Liquids","authors":"S. Shen, Ying Xu, Qiang Liu, Zhangdong Wang","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437376","url":null,"abstract":"Fractal analysis has been applied as a useful tool to quantitatively evaluate the streamer structure in insulating liquids. However, a fixed global greyscale threshold in the image binarization process can cause inevitable background noises and increase the uncertainty of the fractal analysis. This paper focuses on enhancing the fractal analysis by developing a dynamic greyscale threshold algorithm. The greyscale threshold for each pixel is dynamically estimated for a more accurate image binarization process. A unique background recognition method composed of two critical greyscale values is proposed to further reduce background noise in the binary streamer image. From the sensitivity study done in this paper, the square width in the algorithm was optimized at 80 pixels, while the difference between the two critical greyscale values for background recognition is set in the range of 25–40. The dynamic greyscale threshold algorithm is successfully applied to images of negative streamers obtained in five insulating liquids to enhance the fractal analyses.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128058119","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}
N. Takeda, T. Kawashima, M. Kurimoto, Y. Murakami, N. Hozumi, S. Yoshida, T. Umemoto, T. Mabuchi, H. Muto
{"title":"Assessment of charge behavior in electrical tree of composite material based on characteristics of PD waveform","authors":"N. Takeda, T. Kawashima, M. Kurimoto, Y. Murakami, N. Hozumi, S. Yoshida, T. Umemoto, T. Mabuchi, H. Muto","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437548","url":null,"abstract":"Electric tree is a phenomenon of local dielectric breakdown with partial discharge (PD). It is also the final stage of insulation deterioration. The electrical treeing has been discussed by using conventional PD parameters such as the generation phase, charge amount and so on. Since the obtained PD waveforms were processed by an analog filter designed according to the frequency characteristics of the measurement instrument such as an oscilloscope, its waveform is a convolution of the original PD waveform and the transfer function of the measurement system. However, the feature values such as a rise time, fall time and frequency spectrum in the original PD waveform should show the behavior of electrons and ions in the discharge space. In this paper, the original PD waveforms generated in micro-silica/epoxy composite with the electrical tree were acquired, and the feature values of the original PD waveform were analyzed. In addition, the behavior of the electric charges in the discharge space was assessed from the change of the feature values.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130439104","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":"Investigating the Emitted Signals of Partial Discharges for Diagnostic Applications in High Voltage Equipment","authors":"Máté Szirtes, R. Cselkó, B. Németh","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437550","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this paper is to present the time and frequency domain behavior of the emitted electromagnetic signals of the three main types of partial discharges (corona, void and surface discharges) in the VHF and partially the UHF range, and to find the characteristic properties of these signals. A noise and interference free environment was used to measure the undistorted emitted signals of the discharge sources. The individual discharge pulses were investigated in both time and frequency domain, followed by the phase resolved investigation of their time domain behavior. A part of these results showed similarities, making it easier to use these properties for creating a universal digital filtering module. The other part of the results showed significant characteristic differences that were in-line with the traditional measurement results of the literature and can be used for signal separation. The results of this paper can be utilized in the development of the signal processing module of an on-site, real-time partial discharge location approximation system.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129693056","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":"Crystallization of high temperature vulcanized silicone rubber: Effect of ATH concentration","authors":"Yuhao Liu, Yingfei Lin, Kangning Wu, Liming Wang","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437561","url":null,"abstract":"High temperature vulcanized silicone rubber (HTVSR) insulators have been widely used on transmission lines. To improve the tracking and erosion resistance and flame retardant of HTVSR, a great of amount of aluminium hydroxide (ATH) is added. It inevitably influences the crystallization characteristics which are important since HTVSR insulators operate below the crystallization temperature. In this paper, to analyze influence of ATH on crystallization of HTVSR, differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), polarized optical microscopy (POM), and broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) were used. A complete crystallization process has been observed by POM. DSC showed that ATH accelerated the crystallization and improved the melting temperature, which meaned that stability of crystal was enhanced. From the isochronal plot of dielectric permittivity, it was found that, with increase of ATH, the temperature of glass transition was lower and the temperature range during glass transition became wider, which indicated that ATH increased the cooperative rearrangement and inhomogeneity in amorphous region. These indicated that two phases (crystal and amorphous region) were more distinct due to ATH.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129447367","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}
Bai-xin Liu, Guangshuai Sun, Yupeng Ying, Y. Lv, Meng Huang, B. Qi
{"title":"Hollow TiO2Spheres Effect on Dielectric Strength of Oil-Paper Composite Insulation","authors":"Bai-xin Liu, Guangshuai Sun, Yupeng Ying, Y. Lv, Meng Huang, B. Qi","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437535","url":null,"abstract":"Dielectric strength of transformer oil and oil-impregnated paper has been widely investigated to ensure operation safety of power transformers and other electrical equipment. Addition of nanoparticles has exhibited the ability to improve insulation strength of oil or oil-impregnated paper. However, enhancement on breakdown strength of oil-paper composite insulation (OPCI) is still a challenge, especially under DC voltage. In this work, both solid and hollow TiO2 spheres were synthesized and added to transformer oil and oil-impregnated paper. DC breakdown voltages (DCBV) of OPCI before and after adding spheres indicates that modification effect of hollow spheres is superior to that of solid ones. After adding hollow spheres, the positive and negative DCBV of OPCI are increased to 1.42 times and 1.64 times of the positive DCBV of OPCI with solid spheres, respectively. Possible modification mechanism has been discussed and proposed based on further investigation of electric field distribution and interface-charge characteristic of OPCI with two kinds of spheres.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126282362","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}
R. W. Macpherson, M. Wilson, I. Timoshkin, M. Given, S. Macgregor
{"title":"Effect of Surface Deviation of Solid Insulation on Impulsive Flashover Voltages Under Varying Environmental Conditions","authors":"R. W. Macpherson, M. Wilson, I. Timoshkin, M. Given, S. Macgregor","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437541","url":null,"abstract":"In pulsed power engineering, solid spacers are used to insulate high voltage parts from extraneous metal parts. The applied voltage at which a discharge process initiates is important in the design process. In this paper, a method to potentially increase the failure voltage under multiple environmental conditions, without increasing the length of the solid spacer, was investigated. Three insulating materials: Delrin (Polyoxymethylene), Ultem (Polyetherimide) and HDPE (High Density Polyethylene), were tested under a 100/700 ns impulse voltage. Cylindrical spacers made of these materials were located in the center of a parallel-plane electrode setup in air, which provided a quasi-uniform field distribution. Breakdown tests published in this paper were performed in a sealed container at air pressures of −0.5, 0 and 0.5 bar gauge, with a constant relative humidity level of <10% RH. The materials were tested under both, negative and positive, polarity impulses. The surfaces of a set of solid spacers were subjected to a ‘knurled’ finish, where slight indentations are added to the surface of the materials, prior to testing, to allow comparison with the breakdown voltages for samples with ‘smooth’ (machined) surface finishes. For negative polarity impulses, the flashover voltage for smooth machined surfaces was generally higher than for knurled finishes. Under positive polarity impulses, the opposite effect was found to occur, where the flashover voltage of the samples with knurled surfaces was higher for all tests. The results will give designers, particularly within the pulsed power industry, information on flashover voltages of materials under an array of environmental conditions.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124479754","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":"Degradation of Flame-retardant Cross-linked Polyolefin in Simulated Severe Environments","authors":"N. Hirai, Hao-Long Zhou, Y. Ohki","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437472","url":null,"abstract":"It is important to know how the degradation proceeds in a polymer used for electrical insulation in power apparatus, especially in severe environments. Sheets of flame-retardant crosslinked polyolefin (FR-XLPO) were aged thermally at 100, 135, and 155 °C with or without simultaneous irradiation of 60Co gamma rays. They were then analyzed experimentally. The samples aged purely thermally at 135 and 155 °C show more obvious changes in mechanical and dielectric properties than the other samples. While the elongation-at-break (EAB) first increases and then decreases drastically in a relatively early stage of aging, the indenter modulus (IM) shows almost no changes. After that, in a later stage of aging, EAB has no room to go down, whereas IM goes up to high values. It seems that the radiation-induced formation of cross-linked structures makes the polymer harder, which mitigates the progress of damages induced by the aging. Consequently, EAB can be a suitable indicator of the aging of FR-XLPO in a relatively early stage, while IM can be an indicator usable in a later stage.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124009040","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":"Effects of Frequency and Temperature on Partial Discharge Characterization of Stator Windings","authors":"Emre Kantar, E. Eberg, S. Hvidsten","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437438","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents results from laboratory measurements of partial discharge (PD) activity in stator bars taken from a 13-kV/95-MVA hydro generator, after 50 years in service. The main purpose of this work is to characterize the stator mainwall insulation by PD testing with the emphasis on the dependencies on the test voltage frequency and temperature. The tested epoxy-mica based stator bars were taken from the high voltage side of the winding. Non-energized (unused) backup bars were also tested to study the effect of aging on the PD characteristics and to set as a point of reference. The PD characterization was conducted at different frequencies (0.1, 1, and 50 Hz) and temperatures (30, 70, and 130°C) at 8.9 kV (1.2 Uo). The observed frequency and temperature dependencies were discussed using theoretical findings regarding the mechanisms of void degradation and surface conductivity. Also, classification using supervised machine learning was briefly applied to discover patterns in the data as a function of frequency and temperature.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"239 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120932606","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}
Hajime Shimakawa, Masahiro Sato, A. Kumada, K. Hidaka, T. Yasuoka, Y. Hoshina, M. Shiiki
{"title":"Numerical Simulation of Surface Charge Accumulation on DC-GIS Insulating Spacer with Charge Transport Model","authors":"Hajime Shimakawa, Masahiro Sato, A. Kumada, K. Hidaka, T. Yasuoka, Y. Hoshina, M. Shiiki","doi":"10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CEIDP49254.2020.9437380","url":null,"abstract":"Surface charge accumulation on an insulating spacer in DC-GIS under high DC electric field is a problem because it decreases a breakdown voltage on the spacer. However, charge accumulation phenomena of an insulator are not well known. In this study, surface charge distribution at 40°C and at R.T. were measured and simulated. Simulation is performed with the charge transport model which had been developed to calculate electrical conduction in polyethylene. The model modified to calculate interfacial charge accumulation is applied to the experimental system consisting of the epoxy spacer and SF6gas. The measured tendency of the surface charge accumulation was simulated with the charge transport model on the assumption of changes in the trapping properties at the epoxy interface. The simulation results provide the description of the temperature dependence of the surface charge accumulation.","PeriodicalId":170813,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132157302","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}