2nd Edition
by Ravindra Arora, Wolfgang Mosch
High Voltage and Electrical Insulation Engineering
A
comprehensive graduate-level textbook on high voltage insulation
engineering, updated to reflect emerging trends and techniques in the
field
High Voltage and Electrical Insulation Engineering
presents systematic coverage of the behavior of dielectric materials.
This classic textbook opens with clear explanations of fundamental
terminology, electric-field classification, and field estimation
techniques. Subsequent chapters describe the field dependent performance
of gaseous, vacuum, liquid, and solid dielectrics under different
classified field conditions, and illustrate the monitoring of electrical
insulation conditions by both single and continuous online methods.
Throughout the text, numerous tables, figures, diagrams, and images are
provided to strengthen understanding of all material.
Fully
revised to incorporate the most current technological application
techniques, the second edition offers an entirely new section on
condition monitoring of electrical insulation. Updated chapters discuss
recent developments in gas-filled power apparatus, present-day trends in
the use replacement of liquid insulating materials, the latest
applications of new solid dielectrics in high voltage engineering,
vacuum technology and liquid insulating materials, and more. This
edition features a brand-new case study exploring the estimation of
clearance requirements for 25 kV electric traction. Readers will also
find the new edition:
- Provides
new coverage of advances in the field, such as the application of
polymer insulators and the use of SF6 gas and its mixtures in
gas-insulated systems/substations (GIS)
- Uses a novel approach that explores the field dependent behavior of dielectrics
- Explains the “weakly nonuniform field,” a unique concept introduced both conceptually and analytically in Germany
- A
separate chapter provides the new approach to the mechanism of
lightning phenomenon, which also includes the phenomenon of “Ball
Lightning”
- The
dielectric properties of vacuum and the development in the application
of vacuum technology in power circuit breakers is covered in an
exclusive chapter
- In-depth
coverage of the performance of the sulphur-hexafluoride gas and its
mixtures applicable to the design of Gas Insulated Systems including dry
power transformers
High Voltage and Electrical Insulation Engineering, Second Edition,
remains the perfect textbook for graduate students, teachers, academic
researchers, and utility and power industry engineers and scientists
involved in the field.