Study of discharge process and characteristics of discrete water droplets on the RTV hydrophobic surface in the non-uniform electric field

Author(s):  
Jianwu Wang ◽  
Xishan Wen ◽  
Le Lan ◽  
Haiyan Liu
2011 ◽  
Vol 130-134 ◽  
pp. 3276-3279
Author(s):  
Zong Xi Zhang ◽  
Shan Feng Yin

With the accelerating construction of strong smart grid, and the grid voltage level rising, performance requirements for the electrical insulation of electrical equipment also continue to increase. In terms of the advantages of RTV on antifouling, RTV-based paints coated insulator coating capacity of its flash tolerance can significantly increase, mainly due to RTV coating hydrophobic hydrophobicity and migration. But when the hydrophobic surface is in the fully wet, many small drops of water in the surface will be gathered into big drops of water, and these large droplets will distort the surface electric field of the medium. So the flashover voltage of the hydrophobic surface’s separated water droplets under DC electric field are analyzed comparatively in this paper, while some influencing factors such as different medias and volume of water drops, are introduced in specific experiments, and their effects on the flashover voltage are analyzed; under DC electric field experiment on the surface of hydrophobic and hydrophilic surface flashover voltage drops separation characteristics were studied.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1323-1328 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Charalambous ◽  
M. Danikas ◽  
Y. Yin ◽  
N. Vordos ◽  
J. W. Nolan ◽  
...  

It is well known that polyethylene (PE) and cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) are suitable insulating materials for underground cables. Samples of PE and of XLPE with MgO nanoparticles were investigated regarding their flashover behaviour with a uniform electric field and water droplets of various conductivities. In the present paper, the effect of the mounting arrangement of the water drops on the value of the flashover voltage and the effect of the volume of dripping water on the flashover voltage were also studied. Surface damages were analyzed using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) studies and the study of the nano-structure of the samples was studied using the SAXS system.


2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonghong Cheng ◽  
Xu Zhao ◽  
Michael Danikas ◽  
Despoina Christantoni ◽  
Pavlos Zairis

A Study of the Behaviour of Water Droplets Under the Influence of Uniform Electric Field in Epoxy Resin SamplesWater droplets on the surface of epoxy resin samples were investigated under the influence of uniform electric fields. Several parameters of water droplets were investigatedwrtthe flashover voltage of the epoxy resin samples, such as water conductivity, droplet volume, number of droplets as well as the positioning of the droplets regarding the electrodes. The droplet behavior is affected by the above mentioned parameters. Perhaps the most striking conclusion is that the flashover voltage depends more on the positioning of the dropletswrtthe electrodes than on the droplet volume and/or number of droplets.


2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Α. Bairaktari ◽  
M. Danikas ◽  
X. Zhao ◽  
Y. Cheng ◽  
Y. Zhang

In this paper nanocomposite samples of epoxy resin and TiO2 nanoparticles were investigated with water droplets on their surface. A uniform electric field was applied and the behaviour of the water droplets was observed. Parameters that were studied were the water conductivity, the droplet volume, the number of droplets and the droplet positioning with respect to (w.r.t.) the electrodes. All above mentioned parameters influence the flashover voltage of the samples. It is to be noted that – at least in some cases – the water droplet positioning w.r.t. the electrodes was more important in determining the flashover voltage than the droplet volume.


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