Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DIELECTRICS AND ELECTRICAL INSULATION
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 285-294Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2011.5704520
Keywords
Power transformer; lightning impulse; breakdown; streamer propagation; insulating liquids; natural ester; synthetic ester
Funding
- AREVA TD
- EDF Energy
- MI Materials
- National Grid
- Scottish Power
- TJ\H2b Analytical Services
- EPSRC
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Interests on ester liquids as replacement of mineral oil in large power transformers are growing in recent years. This paper presents experimental studies on streamer and breakdown in synthetic and natural esters. Lightning impulse voltage was chosen when considering the practicality of standard tests of transformer industry. First, streamer length, velocity, shape and mode were analyzed based on optical images obtained by a multi-channel ultra high speed camera. Under the same voltage level, streamer in both natural and synthetic esters propagates faster and further, with more branches, than in mineral oil. Breakdown tests at various gaps from 15 mm to 100 mm were conducted, and it was found that fast streamer led breakdown becomes statistically dominant in a large gap under lightning impulse and ester liquids have lower breakdown voltage than mineral oil due to their low tolerance to fast streamer. Therefore a relationship between the results under lightning impulse and previously published results under step voltage was built up and an empirical formula was obtained to predict the breakdown voltage of esters at very large gaps.
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