Resistance Measurements and Interpretations Relating to Flashover of Artificially Contaminated Ceramic Insulator Strings

Subba B, Reddy and GR, Nagabhushana (2003) Resistance Measurements and Interpretations Relating to Flashover of Artificially Contaminated Ceramic Insulator Strings. In: Plasma Science and Technology, 5 (6). pp. 2093-2100.

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Abstract

The flashover of insulator strings occurring at normal working voltages under contaminated/polluted conditions obviously deserves serious consideration. Though much research has been gone into pollution-induced flashover phenomena, grey areas still exist in our knowledge. In the present experimental study, the breakdown (flashover) voltages across gaps on insulator top surfaces and gaps between sheds (on the underside of an insulator) and the flashover studies on a single unit and a 3-unit insulator strings were carried out. An attempt was made to correlate the values obtained for all the cases. Resistance measurement of individual units of a polluted 3-unit string before and after flashover indicated that strongly different resistances could be the cause of flashover of ceramic disc insulator strings.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Plasma Science and Technology
Publisher:	Institute of Physics
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Institute of Physics.
Keywords:	Artificially contaminated/polluted insulator strings;Resistance measurements;Insulator flashover;Breakdown voltages;Ceramic insulators
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > High Voltage Engineering (merged with EE)
Date Deposited:	25 Apr 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:37
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/10670

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