access icon free Characteristics of streamers developing at inception voltage in small gaps of natural ester, synthetic ester and mineral oil under lightning impulse

This paper concerns the studies on streamer propagation in mineral oil, synthetic ester and natural ester at standard lightning impulse inception voltage in small point-plane gaps. The inception voltages of both polarities were measured using step method and then analysed statistically. Simultaneously, streamer characteristics such as shape, emitted light and propagation velocity were compared between the liquids tested. The obtained results showed that the inception voltages were close to each other for all the three liquids tested. Concerning streamer characteristics, it was seen that the spatial shapes of the streamers were similar taking into consideration the given voltage polarity. The same may be said about the propagation velocities, indicating that the velocities of the positive streamers were twice as high as the negative ones. In the case of registered time courses of emitted light, the frequencies of the light pulses corresponding to the propagation of the streamers in both esters were a little bit higher than the pulses emitted by the streamers, which developed in mineral oil. In general, in all three liquids the streamers at inception voltages developed as so-called ‘stopping length’ streamers.

Inspec keywords: discharges (electric); electrodes; Weibull distribution; oils

Other keywords: electrode gap; mineral oil; small gaps; stopping length streamers; inception voltage; voltage polarity; emitted light; propagation velocity; absorption coefficients; step method; synthetic ester; streamer shape; natural ester; three-parametric Weibull distribution; lightning impulse

Subjects: Electric discharges; Chemical industry; Statistics; Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; Engineering materials

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