Dielectric heating in insulating materials subjected to voltage waveforms with high harmonic content

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 926-933

  Sonerud, Björn ^a   Bengtsson, Tord ^a,b   Blennow, Jörgen ^a   Gubanski, Stanislaw ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dielectric heating, dielectric response, dielectric losses, electrothermal effects, aging, pulse width modulation.

Indexed keywords

AGING MECHANISM; CHANGING TEMPERATURE; DIELECTRIC RESPONSE MEASUREMENTS; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HIGH HARMONICS; HIGH VOLTAGE INSULATION; LOW VOLTAGES; MATERIAL PARAMETER; NON-SINUSOIDAL; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PARTIAL DISCHARGE INCEPTION VOLTAGE; POWER FREQUENCY; POWER-LOSSES; THERMAL RUNAWAYS; TWO PARAMETER; VOLTAGE LEVELS; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS; WAVE FORMS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CERAMIC CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC HEATING; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; EXTRACTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEATING; LASER PULSES; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; THERMAL INSULATION;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 69249248533     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2009.5211835     Document Type: Conference Paper

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