Investigation of water treeing — electrical treeing transition in power cables

Author

Gulski, E. ; Putter, H. ; Smit, J.J.

Author_Institution

Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 April 2008

Firstpage

234

Lastpage

237

Abstract

Water treeing is a phenomenon that is already known for more then 35 years and is one of the reasons for cable failures (polymeric cables) in the medium-voltage network. The final stage of water treeing is the formation of electrical trees on top of the water trees. Due to the fact that the moment of electrical tree initiation is crucial to determine the condition of the cable this paper will focus on the investigation of the moment of transition from water trees to electrical trees. The emphasis will be on the behaviour of the PDIV, PDEV and PD-level as function of time. It has been observed that after the moment of first initiation the PDIV decreased with 40% to 50% and the PD activity up to of hundreds of [pC] remained constant.

Keywords

partial discharge measurement; power cables; trees (electrical); dielectric response; electrical treeing transition; partial discharges; power cables; water treeing; Aging; Cable insulation; Circuit testing; Dielectrics and electrical insulation; Electric breakdown; Partial discharges; Polymers; Power cables; Trees - insulation; Voltage; PD extinction voltage; PD inception voltage; PD pattern; cables; dielectric response; insulation; partial discharge; partial discharges; water treeing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis, 2008. CMD 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1621-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1622-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMD.2008.4580270

Filename

4580270