Study the flashover voltage for outdoor polymer insulators under desert climatic conditions

Assessing Partial Discharge on Composite Insulators Under Desert Pollution Conditions

Transmission lines located in the Sinai desert are subjected to desert climate, one of whose features, especially in the spring, is sand storms. Line insulators are thus exposed to sand contamination, which may produce streamer discharges in the air surrounding insulator surface. Such discharges may lead to flashover. This paper examines the electric field and potential distributions on sand-po...

Electrical Circuit Flashover Model of Polluted Insulators under AC Voltage Based on the Arc Root Voltage Gradient Criterion

In order to study the flashover mechanism of polluted insulators under AC voltage, a new arc propagation criterion which is based on an arc root voltage gradient is proposed. This criterion can explain the variation of the arc root voltage gradient in the arc propagation process. Based on this criterion, a new distributed parameter electrical circuit flashover model of polluted insulators is pr...

Effect of Environmental Desert Conditions on the Performance of Hydrophobic Polymer Insulators Surfaces

Polymeric insulators are widely used in newly constructed systems and to replace porcelain and glass insulators in existing power lines due to its improved performance. This paper presents an experimental work, which was carried to evaluate the flashover voltage (kV) of Silicone rubber / Ethylene propylene diene monoemer blends of outdoor insulators. Effect of environmental parameters at desert...

Design of an artificial neural network for the estimation of the flashover voltage on insulators

This work attempts to apply an artificial neural network in order to estimate the critical flashover voltage on polluted insulators. The artificial eural network uses as input variables the following characteristics of the insulator: diameter, height, creepage distance, form factor and equivalent alt deposit density, and estimates the critical flashover voltage. The data used to train the netwo...

Prediction of Flashover Voltage of Insulators Using Low Voltage Surface Resistance Measurement