High Voltage and Electrical Insulation Engineering (eBook)

Dr. Ravindra Arora retired from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in May 2008, where he worked for thirty-four years. At IITK, he established a unique high voltage laboratory, where he conducted research activity for more than forty master's theses, two PhDs, and a large number of undergraduate projects, besides having completed several industry-sponsored projects. He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 1988 and is a Life Member of the Institution of Engineers (India). Dr. Wolfgang Mosch retired as head and chair professor of the Institute of High Voltage Technology in the Electrical Engineering (Power) Division of Technical University Dresden, Germany, in 1993. He has been actively involved with teaching, research, and industry in high voltage and insulation engineering since 1960.

1. Introduction.

1.1 Electric Charge and Discharge.

1.2 Electric & Management Fields and Electromagnetics.

1.3 Dielectric and Electrical Insulation.

1.4 Electrical Breakdown.

1.5 Corona, Streamer and Aurora.

1.6 Capacitance and Capacitor.

2. Electric Fields, their Control and Estimation.

2.1 Electric Field Intensity, 'E'.

2.2 Breakdown and Electric Strength of Dielectrics, 'Eb'.

2.3 Classification of Electric Fields.

2.4 Control of Electric Field Intensity (Stress Control).

2.5 Estimation of Electric Field Intensity.

3. Field dependent Behaviour of Air and other Gaseous Dielectrics.

3.1 Fundamentals of Field Assisted Generation of Charge Carriers.

3.2 Breakdown in uniform and weakly nonuniform fields.

3.3 Breakdown in Extremely Nonuniform Fields and Corona.

3.4 Electric Arcs and Their Characteristics.

3.5 Properties of Sulphurhexafluoride, SF6 Gas and Its Application in Electrical Installations.

4. Lightning and Ball Lightning, Development Mechanisms, Deleterious Effects and Protection.

4.1 The Globe, a Capacitor.

4.2 Mechanisms of lightning strike.

5. Electrical Properties of Vacuum as High Voltage Insulation.

5.1 Prebreakdown Electron Emission in Vacuum.

5.2 Prebreakdown Conduction and Spark Breakdown in Vacuum.

5.3 Vacuum as Insulation in Space Applications.

5.4 Conclusion.

6. Liquid Dielectrics, their Classification, Properties and Breakdown Strength.

6.1 Classification of Liquid Dielectrics.

6.2 Dielectric Properties of Insulating Materials.

6.3 Breakdown in Liquid Dielectrics.

6.4 Ageing in Mineral Insulating Oils.

7. Solid Dielectrics, their Sources, Properties and Behaviour in Electric Fields.

7.1 Classification of Solid Insulting Materials.

7.2 Partial Breakdown in Solid Dielectrics.

7.3 Breakdown and Prebreakdown Phenomena in Solid.

"It is an up-to-date reference book on the fundamentals of
dielectric breakdown phenomena that will surely be used by students
and researchers for many years to come." (Electrical Insulation
Magazine, 2011)