ECE 6609PD
High Voltage Engineering Applications
Spring 2023
Topics
- High-voltage generation and measurement
- Destructive and non-destructive testing of power-system assets
- Partial-discharge measurement
- Field testing of transformers, outdoor insulation and underground cables
- Machine learning for asset assessment
- Electric-field control
- Insulation design and monitoring
- High-voltage applications in pollution control and biotechnology
Readings
- High Voltage Engineering- Fundamentals, 2nd Edition, E. Kuffel, W. S. Zaengl, and Kuffel, J. Oxford; Boston: Newnes, 2000 .
- • Class notes (will be posted weekly on LEARN).
- • Selected review papers from the field of high voltage application
Spring 2022 · High Voltage Engrg. Appns.
Topics
- High-voltage and high-current generation and measurement
- Laboratory and field test standards
- Insulation materials, insulator designs and environmental stresses
- Outdoor polymeric insulation and pollution effects
- Fast transient stresses from voltage converters
- Condition assessment and emerging high-voltage applications
Readings
- High Voltage Engineering _ Fundamentals, 2 nd Edition, E. Kuffel, W. S. Zaengl, and Kuffel, J. Oxford ; Boston : Newnes, 2000.
- Advances in High Voltage Engineering: A. Haddad, D.F. Warne, Published by the Institution of Engineering & Tchnology, London, UK, 2004.
- High Voltage Engineering; Practice and Theory by J.P. Holtzhausen and W.L. Vosloo, ISBN: 978 - 0 - 620 - 3767 - 7
- 4. Selected archival papers.
Winter 2020
Topics
- Lecture Topic Description
- Generation of High Voltages for Testing
- Types and operation of various test sets including: single ended, cascade, and resonant AC, DC, lightning impulse and switching surge generators
- Requirements of high voltage test equipment for various types of tests including: cables, gas insulated bus, power equipment and contamination testing
- Grounding, limits of approach, safety considerations
- Measurement of High Voltages
- Sphere gaps, potential dividers for ac, dc, impulse and switching surges
- Measurement of very fast rise time pulses
- Accuracy and sources of error in measurements
- Digital recording
- Testing Methods for Self- Restoring and Non-Restoring Insulation
- Up-and-down method for impulse and switching surge
- Atmospheric correction factors
- Wet and dry flashover at power frequency
- Concept of Withstand
- Withstand test methods for cables, SF6 and equipment
Readings
- High Voltage Engineering _ Fundamentals, 2 nd Edition, E. Kuffel, W. S . Zaengl, and Kuffel, Newnes, 2000
- High Voltage Engineering, 4th Edition, M. S. Naidi and V. Kamaraju, McGraw Hill company, 2009
- 4. Selected archival papers and standards
- 5. Lecture notes
Undated
Topics
- Generation of High Voltages.
- Methods of measuring high ac, dc, and impulse voltages.
- Non-destructive tests.
- Partial Discharges.
- Introduction to High Voltage Technology. Special features of high voltage generating equipment
- Production of high ac, dc, and impulse voltages for research and testing purposes.
- Study of wave shaping circuits for generating lightning and switching impulses
- Voltage measurements by sphere gaps.
- Potential dividers for ac and dc voltage measurements. Potential dividers for impulse voltage measurements.
- Measurements of fast pulses (sub-microsecond rise time).
- Sources of errors in HV measurements
- Measurements of capacitance and dissipation factor.
- Bridge methods- Transformer arm ratio bridge and Schearing bridge methods
- General remarks on Corona Discharges
- Equivalent circuits. Measuring circuits.
- Corona endurance tests and Bridge methods- Partial discharge detection systems.
- Schlieren and Shadow graphic methods.
- Kerr and Pockel Effects and their applications in Field measurements.
- Pulse power application to air pollution cleaning.
- Pulse power application to biotechnology
Readings
- High Voltage Engineering- Fundamentals, 2nd Edition, E. Kuffel, W. S. Zaengl, and Kuffel, J. Oxford; Boston: Newnes, 2000.
- High Voltage- Measurements, Testing and Design, T. J. Gallagher and A. J. Pearmain, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1982.
- High Voltage Engineering- Theory and Practice, M. Khalifa, Marcel Decker Inc., New York, 1990.
- Selected review papers from the field of high voltage application.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_outline ↗Spring 2023
- course_outline ↗Spring 2022
- course_outline ↗Winter 2020
- course_outline ↗Undated
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