Icing flashover characteristics and discharge process of 500 kV AC transmission line suspension insulator strings

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 434-442

  Liu, Yunpeng ^a   Gao, Song ^a   Huang, Daochun ^b   Yao, Tao ^c   Wu, Xiong ^c   Hu, Yi ^c   Cai, Wei ^c  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

500 kV transmission line; Air gap; Flashover voltage; Grading ring; Icing melting; Pollution; SDD; Water conductivity

Indexed keywords

500 KV TRANSMISSION LINES; AIR-GAPS; FLASHOVER VOLTAGE; GRADING RING; WATER CONDUCTIVITY;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRIC LINES; GRADING; ICE; POLLUTION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

FLASHOVER;

EID: 77951588999     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2010.5448098     Document Type: Article

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