Investigation of Water Tree Degradation in Dry‐Cured and Extruded Three‐Layer (E‐E Type) 6.6‐kV Removed XLPE Cables

Dry‐cured and extruded three‐layer (E‐E type) 6.6‐kV cross‐linked polyethylene (XLPE) cables were introduced into electric power systems more than 30 years ago, but they do not experience failures because of water tree degradation. Also, the degradation index of water treeing for these cables has not been established. Therefore, investigating results of residual breakdown voltage and water tree degradation of these cables will help us plan for cable replacement and determine water tree degradation diagnosis scheduling, and will be fundamental data for cable lifetime evaluation. In this study, the authors measured the ac breakdown voltages of dry‐cured and E‐E type 6.6‐kV XLPE cables removed after 18 to 25 years of operation and observed the water trees in their XLPE insulation. As a result, it was observed that breakdown voltages were larger than the maximum operating voltage (6.9 kV) and the ac voltage for the dielectric withstanding test (10.3 kV). Water trees were mainly bow‐tie water trees and their maximum length was approximately 1 mm. Although the number of measured cables was limited, the lifetime of this type of cable was estimated to be approximately 40 years, even experiencing water immersion.     

Effects of inorganic fillers on withstanding short‐time breakdown and long‐time electrical aging of epoxy composites

Inorganic fillers were added to epoxy resin for preparing micro and nano filler/epoxy composite, and then the breakdown strengths, depths of erosion caused by partial discharge, and electrical tree experiments of composites were investigated. It was found that the loading of micro fillers usually decreases the short‐time breakdown strength (breakdown under a continuously rising voltage) of the composites. On the contrary, it increases the ability to withstand long‐time electrical aging (erosion or breakdown caused by electrical tree under a discontinuously rising voltage or constant voltage) of the composites. The effect of inorganic fillers in suppressing the electrical tree or erosion channel propagation in the composite is different during the process of withstanding short‐time breakdown and long‐time electrical aging. Defects are introduced during the mixing of fillers and epoxy resin, which play a role to decrease the short‐time breakdown strength and accelerate long‐time electrical aging. It is concluded that micro and nano inorganic fillers can suppress the electrical tree channel propagation and erosion caused by partial discharge, whereas defects play the opposite role in composites. Two opposite effects of inorganic fillers and defects exist simultaneously during the process of electrical aging and breakdown; whereas inorganic fillers play a primary role in long‐time electrical aging, defects play a primary role in short‐time breakdown.     

Microprojection heating caused by the approach of a microparticle

Vacuum circuit breakers have been widely used in a medium‐voltage class. In vacuum circuit breakers, late breakdowns sometimes occur after current interruptions. These late breakdowns are triggered by the microparticles and they occur when the microparticles collide with the electrode. In this paper, joule heating caused by field emission enhanced by the approach of a microparticle is simulated using the finite element method. It is turned out that the prolate hemi‐spheroidal microprojection can be vaporized by joule heating when h < 100 nm and w /h < 0.1, where h and w are the semimajor axis and semiminor axis of the microprojection, respectively. The temperature at the center of the microprojection increases exponentially with vr _p², where v and r _p are the speed and the radius of the microparticle, respectively. It is important to remove the large microparticles in order to prevent late breakdowns caused by the microparticles.     

Improved Measurement Performance of Inorganic Elements in Coal by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Coupled with Internal Standardization

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy was employed to determine the inorganic elements in coal. To improve the measurement’s accuracy and precision, a new internal stan?dardization scheme, which we named changed internal standardization, was compared with the traditional internal standardization and no internal standardization for the analysis of inorganic el?ements. The new internal standardization scheme used the atomic line of carbon at 247.86 nm and the molecular band of CN at 388.34 nm and C2 at 516.32 nm to normalize the lines of inorganic elements that were distributed in the same spectral channel. The performance of the utilization of the new internal standardization scheme was evaluated using a set of coal samples, including twenty calibration samples and five validation samples. The results show that the coefficients of determination R2 and the slope of calibration models coupled with changed internal standard?ization are better than that of the calibration models coupled with fixed internal standardization and no internal standardization. Moreover, the measurement accuracy and reproducibility of changed internal standardization for the analysis of five validation samples also yielded further improvement. The results that we obtained suggest that changed internal standardization could compensate for the matrix effects, as well as the influence of the difference in the spectral response of the light collection system.     

Temporal and spatial evolution measurement of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy on hydrogen retention in tantalum

Fuel retention measurement on plasma-facing components is an active field of study in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion devices.The laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy(LIBS)diagnostic method has been well demonstrated to detect the elemental distribution in PFCs.In this work,an upgraded co-axis LIBS system based on a linear fiber bundle collection system has been developed to measure the hydrogen(H) retention on a tantalum(Ta) sample under a vacuum condition.The spatial resolution measurement of the different positions of the LIBS plasma can be achieved simultaneously with varying delay times.The temporal and spatial evolution results of LIBS plasma emission show that the H plasma observably expands from the delay times of 0-200 ns.The diameter of Ta plasma is about 6 mm which is much less than the size of H plasma after 200 ns.The difference in the temporal and spatial evolution behaviors between H plasma and Ta plasma is due to the great difference in the atomic mass of H and Ta.The depth profile result shows that H retention mainly exists on the surface of the sample.The temporal and spatial evolution behaviors of the electron excited temperature are consistent with that of the Ta emission.The result will further improve the understanding of the evolution of the dynamics of LIBS plasma and optimize the current collection system of in situ LIBS in fusion devices.     

Improvement of quantitative analysis of molybdenum element using PLS-based approaches for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in various pressure environments

An experimental setup has been designed and realized in order to optimize the characteristics of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy system working in various pressure environments. An approach combined the normalization methods with the partial least squares(PLS) method are developed for quantitative analysis of molybdenum(Mo) element in the multi-component alloy,which is the first wall material in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak. In this study, the different spectral normalization methods(total spectral area normalization,background normalization, and reference line normalization) are investigated for reducing the uncertainty and improving the accuracy of spectral measurement. The results indicates that the approach of PLS based on inter-element interference is significantly better than the conventional PLS methods as well as the univariate linear methods in the various pressure for molybdenum element analysis.     

核桃仁去种皮方法的探究与开发

本文对目前已有的核桃内种皮去除技术进行了简要介绍,分析探讨了每种核桃内种皮去皮技术的特点,并提出了一种新的核桃内种皮去除技术,以期为核桃产业综合发展提供参考.     

High-Energy Storage Density and Efficiency of the xBi(Mg2/3Nb1/3)O3-(1 − x)(Ba0.8Sr0.2)TiO3 (0.08 ≤ x ≤ 0.14) Lead-Free Perovskite Structured Ceramics

The compounds xBi(Mg_2/3Nb_1/3)O₃-(1 − x)(Ba_0.8Sr_0.2)TiO₃ (xBMN-(1 − x)BST, 0.08 ≤ x ≤ 0.14) are prepared via the traditional solid-state reaction method and the ceramics are well densified in the sintering temperature range of 1280–1330 °C. X-ray diffraction analysis shows that all the ceramics crystallize into perovskite structure. Proper amounts of BMN additions can effectively reduce grain sizes of the xBMN-(1 − x)BST ceramics, resulting in more uniform microstructures. Accordingly, breakdown strength E_b is improved and a maximum value 250 kV cm⁻¹ is obtained in ceramic with x = 0.10. Meanwhile, recoverable energy storage density W_rec of the 0.1BMN-0.9BST ceramics reaches 2.03 J cm⁻³, and energy storage efficiency (η) is 96.8%. When the operating temperature increases to 150 °C, the W_rec and η values are about 1.02 J cm⁻³ under 150 kV cm⁻¹ and 89.8%, respectively.     

4H-SiC npn双极型晶体管的研制

采用国产的4H-SiC外延材料和自行开发的SiC双极晶体管的工艺技术,实现了4H-SiC npn双极晶体管特性。为避免二次外延或高温离子p+注入等操作,外延形成n+/p+/p/n-结构材料,然后根据版图设计进行相应的刻蚀,形成双台面结构。为保证p型基区能实现良好的欧姆接触,外延时在n+层和p层中间插入适当高掺杂的p+层外延,但也使双极晶体管发射效率降低,电流放大系数降低。为提高器件的击穿电压,在尽量实现低损伤刻蚀时,采用牺牲氧化等技术减少表面损伤及粗糙度,避免表面态及尖端电场集中,并利用SiC能形成稳定氧化层的优势来形成钝化保护。器件的集电结反向击穿电压达200 V,集电结在100 V下的反向截止漏电流小于0.05 mA,共发射极电流放大系数约为3。     

低气压毛细管放电特性研究

利用一台毛细管快放电X射线激光装置．研究了预脉冲作用下氩气和氦气在10～120Pa压强范围内对毛细管放电的击穿特性。实验结果表明只有10～15kV放电电压才能将内径为3mm．长度为90mm的毛细管中10～120Pa的氩气击穿，同时电极表面的形态对击穿电位也有较大影响。对预、主脉冲作用下毛细管放电规律及Z箍缩过程中阻抗变化规律进行了研究，发现不同长度的氩气柱在箍缩过程中的阻抗变化趋势基本相同。不同长度、不同放电电压情况下，毛细管阻抗均达到最小值5n左右．同时电流达到峰值。该结果为在相同放电电压下．对不同长度毛细管放电获得相同的电流峰值提供了可能。