Positive corona inception voltages and corona currents for air at various pressures and humidities

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-70

  Bian, Xingming ^a   Wang, Liming ^a   MacAlpine, J M K ^a   Guan, Zhicheng ^a   Hui, Jianfeng ^b   Chen, Yong ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shaanxi Electric Power Corporation   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corona current; Corona inception voltage; Humidity; Positive corona; Pressure

Indexed keywords

AIR DENSITY; AIR PRESSURES; APPLIED DC-VOLTAGE; APPLIED VOLTAGES; CALCULATION METHODS; COEFFICIENT C; CORONA CHARACTERISTIC; CORONA CURRENTS; CORONA INCEPTION VOLTAGE; DRY AIR; ELECTRODE SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; HUMID AIR; HUMIDITY; IONIZATION COEFFICIENT; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; METHOD OF CALCULATION; PARTICLE-IN-CELL; POSITIVE CORONA; SPACE CHARGE DENSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MOISTURE; PARTICLE DETECTORS; POSITIVE IONS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

EID: 77249102123     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2010.5412003     Document Type: Article

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