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Insulator (electricity)

About: Insulator (electricity) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15941 publications have been published within this topic receiving 108950 citations. The topic is also known as: electrical insulator.


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TL;DR: Radiation-enhanced electrical breakdown was observed in Al2O3 under conditions simulating fusion reactor devices in this article, where ionization and displacement damage played key roles in the breakdown.

59 citations

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TL;DR: Techniques were introduced for the acoustic detection of insulator faults by acoustic radiation noises to classify the fault state insulators without human inspection by considering the amount of total noises and 120-Hz harmonic components.
Abstract: Insulators are important equipment used to electrically isolate and mechanically hold wires in high-voltage power transmission systems. Faults caused by the deterioration of the insulators induce very serious problems to the power transmission line. Techniques were introduced for the acoustic detection of insulator faults by acoustic radiation noises. Radiation noises were measured from normal state insulators and fault state insulators in an anechoic chamber. The insulators used were two porcelain insulators, a cut-out switch, two line posters, and a lightning arrester. A new acoustic technique determines the direction of the insulator faults using source localization with three-dimensional microphone arrays. The advantage is to classify the fault state insulators without human inspection by considering the amount of total noises and 120-Hz harmonic components. The fault detection was determined by neural network to diagnose the state automatically. The proposed technique was evaluated by distinct, real datasets and the efficacy was validated. The noise source was detected with 100.0% accuracy and the classification ratio achieved 96.7% for three typical conditions.

59 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on field criterion has been developed to represent the flashover phenomenon, which occurs due to surface pollution on high voltage insulators, under ac voltage.
Abstract: In this work, a model based on field criterion has been developed to represent the flashover phenomenon, which occurs due to surface pollution on high voltage insulators, under ac voltage. The values of potential and electric field on an insulator surface have been determined using the finite element method (FEM). The open model of the insulator has been used for calculating the resistance in series with the arc, in addition to the values of the leakage current and the arc gradient. As a new approach, this dynamic model uses Lagrange multipliers for the solution of the pollution flashover problem. Both the impedance and the electric field criterion have been used for the propagation of arc on the surface. A computer program called NFDM (new flashover dynamic model) has been developed to achieve this. The results obtained from the program have been compared with theoretical and experimental results of other researchers.

59 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the insulator-layer-thickness-dependent temperature increment in the nanowire for the current-induced domain wall motion, and they found that the control parameter of the temperature increment is the ratio between the insulation layer's thickness and the width of the wire.
Abstract: The authors investigate the insulator-layer-thickness-dependent temperature increment in the nanowire for the current-induced domain wall motion. Practically, a finite thickness insulator layer must be placed between the semi-infinite substrate and the metallic nanowire for an electric insulation. Since a good electric insulator is also a thermal insulator, the temperature increment of the nanowire depends on the insulator layer’s thickness. An approximated analytic expression of the insulator thickness dependent temperature increment is obtained by employing the Fourier-transformed Green’s function method, and it is confirmed by the full numerical finite element method. The authors find that the control parameter of the temperature increment is the ratio between the insulator layer’s thickness and the nanowire’s width.

59 citations

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TL;DR: The usage of manganese dioxide based nanoparticles as an effective agent to prevent the UV accelerated aging of polymeric insulators is demonstrated and a new pathway for the generation of UV resistant high voltage power transmission line insulator materials is promised.
Abstract: Polymeric outdoor insulators derived from polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) are replacing conventional ceramic insulators in high voltage power transmission lines because of their improved electrical, mechanical and hydrophobic performance. Major impediments like failure of polymeric insulators due to natural aging by UV radiation from sunlight and electrical tracking have limited their usage. Herein, it is demonstrated about the usage of manganese dioxide based nanoparticles as an effective agent to prevent the UV accelerated aging of polymeric insulators. MnO2 nanoparticles of different shapes and dimension were synthesized using a single step wet chemical reaction between KMnO4 and methyl acetate. Namely, 2D δ-MnO2 nanosheets, 1D α-MnO2 nanowires and 3D α-MnO2 nanorods were formed. These nanoparticles were extensively characterized by various techniques. In the scope of the study, the δ-MnO2 (10−5 S cm−1; 1 MHz) nanosheet demonstrated the lowest electrical AC conductivity and a higher band gap compared to the 1D (10−4 S cm−1; 1 MHz) and 3D variety (10−4 S cm−1; 1 MHz). Owing to the lower electrical conductivity of the δ-MnO2 nanosheet, it was further incorporated at different filler volumes in the polymeric matrix (blend of polydimethyl siloxane/ethylene vinyl acetate) as a UV protector material for the polymer based high voltage composite polymeric insulator. The UV protection ability, induced by the δ-MnO2 nanosheet, was achieved without adversely affecting other properties of the formulated insulator compound material. The optimum properties of the composite were found to be obtained at 3 phr (three parts of δ-MnO2 nanosheet per hundred parts of polymer) loading of the nanosheet. The current work will promise to pave a new pathway for the generation of UV resistant high voltage power transmission line insulator materials. It would be interesting in the future to study the effect of incorporation of manganese dioxide based nanosheets on the UV resistant properties of different polymeric matrices.

59 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023368
2022892
2021224
2020478
2019561
2018629