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access icon free Statistical investigation of AC breakdown voltage of nanofluids compared with mineral and natural ester oil

In this study, three different insulating liquids, natural ester, mineral oil which is currently used by the Public Power Corporation of Greece and a nanofluid of surface coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles into a natural ester matrix, were subjected to AC voltage stress and their statistical breakdown voltage was measured and compared. Three different electrode configurations were used during the measurements in order to study the effect of non-uniform fields on the breakdown voltage distribution. Four different statistical distributions were used for the statistical processing of the experimental results. The two of them were the frequently used normal and Weibull distributions; in addition, Gumbel and generalised extreme value (GEV) function distributions were studied. It was shown that, in most cases, the experimental data followed GEV and Weibull functions rather than normal or Gumbel. Therefore, GEV statistics fits indiscriminately better to the experimental results concerning breakdown voltage, for the three different electrodes configuration and the three understudied insulating oils. The experimental results indicated that nanofluid has better performance, in terms of dielectric breakdown voltage, compared with natural ester oil and mineral oil, hence nanofluid is considered as a potential substitute of the conventional dielectric liquids, with enhanced properties and prospects.

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