Streamer characteristic and breakdown in synthetic and natural ester transformer liquids under standard lightning impulse voltage

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 285-294

  Liu, Q ^a   Wang, Z D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breakdown; insulating liquids; lightning impulse; natural ester; Power transformer; streamer propagation; synthetic ester

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWN; INSULATING LIQUIDS; LIGHTNING IMPULSE; NATURAL ESTER; STREAMER PROPAGATION; SYNTHETIC ESTER;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; ESTERIFICATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHTNING; LIQUIDS; LUBRICATING OILS; MINERAL OILS; MINERALS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; SILICATE MINERALS; TRANSFORMER SUBSTATIONS; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

ESTERS;

EID: 79551642546     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2011.5704520     Document Type: Article

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