Electrostatic Stress Analysis of High Voltage Cables
Electrostatic Stress Analysis of High Voltage Cables
Electrostatic Stress Analysis of High Voltage Cables
Department of Electrical Engineering, Charotar University of science and Technology, Changa, Gujarat, India
Abstract
Power cable as one of the main components of power networks, play an important role in electric power transmission between
different zones. In cable, stress will maximum nearer to the surface of the conductor and it will get decreases as we move away from
core to outer sheath. So, dielectric will be unnecessarily strong and expensive. Moreover, in cable insulation system, due to presence
of pollutant such as air voids, water voids and also occurrence of water treeing phenomena, local field increases. As a result,
enhancing electric field may cause to local breakdown in cable insulation. The presence of water within the insulation material can
only lead to forming water trees if a sufficient electric field exists which may shorten life of cable. In this thesis, Finite element method
is used to computing and evaluating of the electric field in the power cable by considering to existence of water particle and air void
inside the polyethylene insulation. For equal stress distribution, grading methods are also considered. For all this purpose FEMM
software is used for modeling. The results indicate that the stress is influenced by the void permittivity, shape of void, sharpness of
void and also void position. By providing grading of the cable we can equally distribute the stress along the cable insulation.
2. ANALYTICAL METHOD
r 0 r
r 0 r 2
2 0
) i cos i sin
r 0 r
for 0<r<rc....................... (2)
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3.
NUMERIC
ELECTRIC
FIELD
METHOD-DETERMINING
INSIDE
CABLE
UNDER
2.5e+006
2e+006
Cable Characteristics
Parameters
1e+006
Rated Voltage
33KV
5e+005
Number of Core
Area of conductor
400mm2
Radius of conductor
1.30 cm
Overall diameter
7 cm
Insulation
constant(XLPE)
Water permittivity
Air permittivity
dielectric
2.3
81
1
0
0
0.5
1.5
Length, cm
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2e+006
|E|, V/m
1.5e+006
Maximum
(V/m)
2.75e+006
2.45e+006
2.23e+006
Cylindrical
Spherical
Elliptical
stress
1.5e+006
1e+006
5e+005
0
0
0.5
1.5
Length, cm
5e+005
0
0
0.5
1.5
Length, cm
5. CONCLUSIONS
Analytical method can calculate the mean stress in the void.
However, the field distribution in the vicinity of a void of nonstandard shape is difficult to calculate by analytical method. In
this study, the results show the important influence of shape of
void on electric stress within it. As it well Known, the stress in
the void cavity is enhanced and this is an important
consideration for PD activity. The cavity stress enhancement
increase as permittivity of dielectric increase. Stress
enhancement is grater for cavity nearer to the surface of the
conductor. Moreover, electric field inside void is also function
of its edge sharpness. As its sharpness increases, electric field
enhancement is also increases. Also results show that electric
field is a function of cavity shape. According to result obtained,
electric field inside cylindrical cavity is higher than that of
spherical one and in spherical cavity is higher than elliptical
one.
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