Journal
MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Volume 117, Issue 1, Pages 11-22Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2018.1488007
Keywords
Oil-paper interface; molecular dynamics; electric field; temperature field; water molecular diffusion
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of P.R. China [51307053]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2018MS009]
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Moisture is an important factor affecting the insulation properties of transformers. Due to the limitations of macroscopic experimental methods, the diffusion of water at oil-paper interface cannot be accurately measured. Therefore, molecular dynamics method was used in this work to establish oil-paper layer model of 105 atoms. Through jointly analysing the aggregation degree, diffusion coefficient, free volume as well as radial distribution function of water molecules, the diffusion mechanism of water molecules at oil-paper interface was studied. The results show that when the initial water content in paper was high, water molecules would accumulate at oil-paper interface to form the local high-water region during heating. The polarisation of the electric field strengthened the hydrogen bonding interaction between water molecules and increased the probability of occurrence of the high-water region. Meanwhile, electric field reduced the free volume and diffusion coefficient of water molecules and rendered its diffusion coefficient anisotropic. What's more, when the electric field was combined with the temperature field, the electric field played a leading role in the diffusion of water molecules while the temperature field was less affected. Diffusion coefficients of water molecules at different temperatures from molecular dynamics simulations were well consistent with experimental results, which verified the rationality of the model. [GRAPHICS] .
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