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Effect of traps on surface flashover of XLPE in vacuum

  • Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Abstract

In the present paper, we study the effect of trap depth for shallow traps on the surface flashover performance in vacuum; that is on deepening the trap depth, the flashover performance is firstly enhanced and then weakened, only when the trap depth changes in the certain range, the best surface flashover performance in vacuum is exhibited. Further to a previous study, we extensively study wide range of trap depths by changing the aggregation structure of semi-crystalline cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE). In the present study, we firstly annealed the XLPE at 135 °C for 10 minutes then cooled it at different conditions to get samples with different trap depths. We found that the trap depth deepened on increasing the grain size. Furthermore, we found that the flashover performances of the samples (Cooled at a rate of 0.5 °C /min) were enhanced by 76% and 19%, respectively under dc and impulse voltage. These results demonstrate heat-treatment as an effective way to enhance the flashover performance in vacuum for the semi-crystalline polymers.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5492273
Pages (from-to)964-970
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
Volume17
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2010

Keywords

  • Aggregation structure
  • Cross-linked polyethylene
  • Heat treatment
  • Surface flashover in vacuum
  • Trap

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