Intelligent Aging Evaluation of Polymeric Insulators by Inclined Plane Test

Authors

  • Ashwini A. V. Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University
  • Ravi K. N., ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University Bengaluru, India,
  • Rekha S. N. HOD & ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Keywords:

Polymer insulator, Pollution Severity, Ageing, IPTE test, Hydrophobicity

Abstract

Though polymers have tremendous advantages, but due to various disadvantages there usage has been limited. The main limitation is the surface ageing property of polymeric insulators. Though research on polymeric materials has been carried out, ageing properties are not determined exactly. In the present work, inclined plane tracking and erosion tests were carried out on specimen insulator material with different pollution severity prepared artificially. The effect of spacing between the electrodes used was studied by varying the distance between the electrodes. Further tests were also conducted on a section of the full-scale insulator of 66kV. Tests were conducted on specimen insulator material for 100 hours and the test samples were observed for their hydrophobicity property. The details of the experimental setup, the procedure followed, the results, and the discussions are presented in this paper. From the study carried out it was found that a lower severity is vulnerable to ageing of polymeric insulators, which is a valuable result as the surface condition along with electrical stress plays an important role in the ageing of the insulating material.

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17.05.2023

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A. V. , A. ., K. N., , R., & S. N., R. . (2023). Intelligent Aging Evaluation of Polymeric Insulators by Inclined Plane Test. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 11(6s), 613–620. Retrieved from https://ijisae.org/index.php/IJISAE/article/view/2893

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