Electrical treeing initiation and propagation in silicone rubber nanocomposites

Author

Jamil, A.A.A. ; Bashir, Nouruddeen ; Ahmad, M.H. ; Arief, Yanuar Z. ; Kamarol, Mohamad ; Mariatti, M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

502

Lastpage

505

Abstract

Electrical tree initiation voltage and tree propagation length for unfilled silicone rubber, silicone rubber nanocomposites filled with 1% and 3% of OMMT and SiO₂ was presented in this paper. This study investigates the capabilities of OMMT and SiO₂ in silicone rubber in order to inhibit the growth of electrical treeing. From the result of this study has indicated that in the filled nanocomposite sample, the OMMT acts as barrier to unfilled silicone rubber and silicone rubber filled with SiO₂ because the capabilities to decreased the tree propagation length of electrical tree. This result revealed that OMMT could be used as filler in silicone rubber insulating material for the purpose of retarding electrical tree growth.

Keywords

composite insulating materials; nanocomposites; silicone rubber; silicone rubber insulators; trees (electrical); OMMT; SiO₂; electrical treeing initiation voltage; silicone rubber insulating material; tree propagation length; unfilled silicone rubber nanocomposite propagation; Dielectrics; Electric breakdown; Electrodes; Nanocomposites; Polymers; Rubber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), 2013 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEIDP.2013.6748154

Filename

6748154