ECE 6618PD
Medium and High Voltage Power Cables
Winter 2023
Topics
- Winter 2023
- Teaching Assistant: TBA
- Introduction: Vast urbanization and increasing pressure to meet high demand in power delivery and the use of renewable energy sources, have resulted in a significant growth in underground cable networks. In addition, underground cables being a critical asset group, any outages due to their failure will result in considerable service delivery and economic impact on the operation of power networks.
- from ECE 6608PD is an asset. But lecture 7 will cover the required topics on conduction and breakdown mechanisms related to solid dielectrics that is essential for understanding the aging, degradation, and failure mechanisms of power cables in service.
- Lectures Topics Description 1-2
- s, Design and Manufacturing
- Design principles and standards
- Types of cables
- Paper/Oil insulated cables
- Extruded polymeric cables
- Conductors,
- Shielding, sheaths, jackets and armors
- Accessories
- Cables joints, straight joints, transition joints
- Cable terminations; polymeric, ceramic
- Heat shrink and cold shrink
- Installation
- Installations process
- Direct buried, ducts, troughs and tunnels
Readings
- Book Electrical Power Cable Engineering, Editor: William A. Thue, ISBN : 978-0-8247-4303-1 (hardback) 978-0- 203-97061-4 (electronic), June 2005. Access to this book in electronic version is available from the Other References: During the course of presentation, several papers and sections of books/reports will be suggested as
- Materials; and these materials will be posted on UW-LEARN.
Undated
Topics
- Conductors, shielded conductors, ground potentials and their influence on terminations.
- Dielectric properties, field enhancement, equipotential, electrical insulation
- Insulation resistance; volume and surface resistances, dc charging current, voltage ratings, system impedance.
- Dielectric loss, cable capacitances, inductive reactances, mutual inductance.
- Ampacity, electric field, eddy currents, conductor resistance.
- Paper oil, neoprene, thermoplastic, polyethylene
- Cross linking, elastomers, polymer, cross-linked polyethylene, saline
- Shielding, sheaths, jackets and armors
- Ampacity, thermal resistivity, heat dissipation
- Defects, high fields, treeing; electrical trees, water tress, their growth
- Standards and Specifications, splicing, terminations, HT superconductive cables
- Underground System Fault Locating,
- dissipation factor, dielectric constant, permittivity
- Partial discharge, on-line and off-line detection techniques
- Installation and field testing
Readings
- Electrical Power Cable Engineering, Editor: William A. Thue, ISBN: 978-0-8247-4303-1 (hardback) 978-0-203-97061-4 (electronic), June 2005.
- Power Cables and Their Application, Power Cables and their Applications: 3rd Edition, Editor: Lothar Heinhold, ISBN: 978-3-8009-1535-4, 1996.
- Cable Systems for High and Extra-High Voltage: Development, Manufacture, Testing, Installation and Operation of Cables and their Accessories, Egon Peschke, Rainer von Olshusen, ISBN: 978-3-89578-118-6, March 2000.
- Selected papers from the field of Underground power cables; and these papers will be posted on University of Waterloo ACE.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_outline ↗Winter 2023
- course_outline ↗Undated
- Official public PDF outline or course description. Materials and topic extracts may be partial; consult the linked source for the full list.
- Public departmental course outline. Source may be archival; no current-term assignment is implied. Bibliographic details are preserved in textbook notes. Course title supplied from the current catalogue because the archival heading only gives the code. Source term/year not established.