Study the flashover voltage for outdoor polymer insulators under desert climatic conditions |
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| Authors: | L.S. Nasrat A.F. Hamed M.A. Hamid S.H. Mansour |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Electrical Power & Machines Department, Faculty of Engineering, South Valley University, Aswan, Egypt;2. Badr El Din Petroleum Company (BAPETCO), Cairo, Egypt;3. Electrical Power & Machines Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;4. Polymers & Pigments Department, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt |
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| Abstract: | This work presents a study of flashover voltage for outdoor polyester and composite insulators under some desert climatic conditions. Cylindrical polyester composite samples have been prepared after incorporated with different concentrations of inorganic fillers e.g., alumina trihydrate [ATH], boric acid [H3BO3] and magnesium hydroxide [Mg(OH)2] to improve the electrical, mechanical and thermal properties in addition to maximize the surface flashover voltage and decrease the tracking phenomena.Results showed that flashover voltage reaches to 38 kV for samples without filler and 47 kV for samples containing 50% of ATH filler in dry condition. A comparison between inorganic fillers under various environmental conditions showed higher flashover voltage values for samples containing ATH filler than that of samples containing H3BO3 and Mg(OH)2 fillers at all filler concentrations. Flashover voltage increases 24% by adding ATH filler for polyester samples under sandstorm conditions. Also, in this study, the effects of sandstorm, ultra violet (UV) radiation, mechanical strength (compressive and tensile strengths) and thermal performance with respect to surface of the sample under test have been investigated in detail. |
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