Pulse Breakdown Strengths of Liquid, Gel and Solid Insulating Materials Using Closely Spaced Spherical Electrodes

• Authors: P. Leask
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper an evaluation of a number of different insulating materials, under pulse breakdown conditions, is described. The experimental setup used an 8 stage Marx generator in order to generate a high potential difference (in the range 80-220 kV) between two spherical electrodes which were spaced 1.5-3.5 mm apart. The breakdown voltage of each of the materials was recorded and the data was then post-processed in order to determine the breakdown strength of each of the samples.

Keywords

EN

77.22.Jp; 52.80.Mg; 52.80.Wq

Discipline

• 52.80.Wq: Discharge in liquids and solids(for electric breakdown in liquids, see 77.22.Jp)
• 77.22.Jp: Dielectric breakdown and space-charge effects(for dielectric breakdown in gases, see 51.50.+v)
• 52.80.Mg: Arcs; sparks; lightning; atmospheric electricity(see also 92.60.Pw Atmospheric electricity, lightning in meteorology)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 115
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 998-1000

Dates

published

2009-06

Contributors

author

P. Leask

• BAE Systems, Advanced Technology Centre, Filton, Bristol, United Kingdom

References

• 1. North Star High Voltage, Arizona (USA)
• 2. S.M. Lebedev, O.S. Gefle, Yu.P Pokholkov, V.I. Chichikin, High Voltage Engineering Symp., IEEE 1999, p. 304

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.115.998