High Voltage Engineering (Power Electronics)

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HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEERING 2162411
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Code: 2162411 Credits: 6 Semester 6 PE

High Voltage Engineering (Power Electronics)

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High Voltage Engineering (Power Electronics) Syllabus — Unit-wise Content

The official GTU curriculum for High Voltage Engineering (Power Electronics) (subject code 2162411) as prescribed for PE · Semester 6 divides the course into 8 units, covering 105 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.

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Unit 1 . Electrostatic fields and field stress control

5 lecture hours

  • Electrical field distribution and breakdown strength of insulating materials - fields in homogeneous
  • isotropic materials - fields in multi-dielectric
  • isotropic materials - numerical method: Finite Difference Method (FDM)
  • Finite Element Method (FEM)
  • charge simulation method (CSM)

Unit 2 Module 2

8 lecture hours

  • Electrical breakdown in gases Gases as insulating media - ionization and decay processes
  • Townsend first ionization coefficient
  • ionization by interaction of metastable with atoms
  • thermal ionization
  • deionization by recombination
  • deionization by attachment–negative ion formation
  • mobility of gaseous ions and deionization by diffusion
  • relation between diffusion and mobility
  • examples - cathode processes – secondary effects
  • photoelectric emission
  • electron emission by positive ion and excited atom impact
  • thermionic emission
  • field emission
  • Townsend second ionization coefficient
  • secondary electron emission by photon impact
  • examples - transition from non-self-sustained discharges to breakdown
  • the Townsend mechanism
  • examples - the streamer or ‘kanal’ mechanism of spark
  • examples - the sparking voltage–Paschen’s law, penning effect
  • the breakdown field strength
  • breakdown in non-uniform fields - effect of electron attachment on the breakdown criteria
  • partial breakdown
  • corona discharges
  • polarity effect – influence of space charge - practical gaseous dielectrics: SF6, SF6 mixtures
  • gas insulated substations

Unit 3 . Breakdown in liquid and solid dielectrics

8 lecture hours

  • Liquid as insulators
  • breakdown in liquids - electronic breakdown
  • suspended solid particle mechanism
  • cavity breakdown
  • electro-convection and electro-hydrodynamic model of dielectric breakdown
  • examples - static electrification in power transformers
  • transformer oil filtration
  • transformer oil test
  • alternative liquid insulations like vegetable oils
  • esters and silicon oils - breakdown in solids
  • intrinsic breakdown
  • streamer breakdown
  • electromechanical breakdown
  • edge breakdown and treeing
  • thermal breakdown
  • erosion breakdown
  • tracking - breakdown of solid dielectrics in practice
  • partial discharges in solid insulation
  • solid dielectrics used in practice

Unit 4 . Generation of high voltages

8 lecture hours

  • Generation of high direct voltages
  • half and full wave rectifier circuits
  • voltage multiplier circuits
  • Van de Graff generators
  • electrostatic generators
  • examples - generation of alternating voltages
  • testing transformers
  • cascaded transformers
  • resonant transformers
  • examples - impulse voltages
  • Standard lightning and switching surge and associated parameters and their corrections
  • impulse voltage generator circuits
  • Marx circuit
  • design and construction of impulse generators
  • examples - impulse current generator - control systems

Unit 5 . Measurement of high voltages

8 lecture hours

  • High direct voltage measurement
  • peak voltage measurements by spark gaps
  • sphere gaps
  • reference measuring systems
  • uniform field gaps
  • rod gaps
  • factors affecting sphere gap measurements
  • examples - electrostatic voltmeters - ammeter in series with high ohmic resistors and high ohmic resistor voltage dividers - generating voltmeters and field sensors - the measurement of peak voltages
  • the Chubb–Fortescue method
  • high- voltage capacitors for measuring circuits - voltage dividing systems and impulse voltage measurements
  • generalized voltage generation and measuring circuit
  • voltage dividers
  • interaction between voltage divider and its lead
  • the divider’s low-voltage arm - digital recorders
  • errors inherent in digital recorders

Unit 6 Module 6

5 lecture hours

  • Over voltages
  • testing procedures and insulation coordination : The lightning mechanism
  • energy in lightning
  • nature of danger - simulated lightning surges for testing - switching surge test voltage characteristics - laboratory high-voltage testing procedures and statistical treatment of results
  • examples - insulation coordination
  • insulation level
  • statistical approach to insulation coordination
  • correlation between insulation and protection levels - modern power systems protection devices
  • M O A – metal oxide arresters

Unit 7 Module 7

6 lecture hours

  • Non-destructive insulation test techniques Measurement of d.c. resistivity - dielectric loss and capacitance measurements
  • the Schering bridge
  • current comparator bridges
  • loss measurement on complete equipment
  • null detectors - partial-discharge (PD) measurements
  • the basic PD test circuit
  • PD currents
  • PD measuring systems within the PD test circuit
  • measuring systems for apparent charge
  • sources and reduction of disturbances
  • other PD quantities
  • calibration of PD detectors in a complete test circuit
  • digital PD instruments

Unit 8 High voltage testing

8 lecture hours

  • Testing of insulators and bushings
  • testing of isolators and circuit breakers Testing of cables
  • testing of transformers - testing of surge diverters - radio interference measurements - design
  • planning and layout of high voltage laboratory

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