Optical and Electrical Characteristics on Space-Time Evolution of Streamer Propagation in Transformer Oil under AC Voltage
Wen Jiaye1, Li Yuan1, Lin Daohong2, Tang Feng3, Zhang Guanjun1
1. State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an 710049 China;; 2. Electric Power Research Institute of Hainan Power Grid Co. Ltd Haikou 570125 China; 3. Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau Co. Ltd Shenzhen 518000 China
Abstract：The streamer discharge is the pre-breakdown phenomenon including inception and propagation process of discharge, which is featured by high degree of ionization, high propagation velocity and random branching characteristics. Studying streamer discharge in transformer oil is of great importance to deep understand the mechanism of liquid dielectrics discharge and improve the quality of oil-paper insulation. The steamer propagation process experimental platform is set up to obtain the current pulses and optical image of streamer. It is found that current pulses of negative streamers include four patterns, i.e. single pulse, increasing pulses, decreasing pulses, and first increasing then decreasing pulses. The negative streamer is in a nearly spherical shape and develops slowly with the rise of applied voltage. The positive streamer current pulses are in the form of pulses burst, where the streamers are in a filament-like shape with a random branching characteristic. The inception and propagation mechanism of streamer is also discussed, and several parameters of streamer including radius and velocity are calculated. The results show that the radius of negative is about 80μm, and the diameter of positive streamer is 60~80μm with 3km/s of the average velocity, which are in accordance with the experimental results. It is concluded that the inception and development mechanisms of positive and negative streamers are different.
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Wen Jiaye, Li Yuan, Lin Daohong, Tang Feng, Zhang Guanjun. Optical and Electrical Characteristics on Space-Time Evolution of Streamer Propagation in Transformer Oil under AC Voltage. Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, 2019, 34(4): 838-846.
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