Electric fields on AC composite transmission line insulators

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 823-830

  Phillips, Andrew ^a   Kuffel, John ^b   Baker, Anthony ^c   Burnham, Jeffery ^c   Carreira, Anthony ^c   Cherney, Edward ^c   Chisholm, William ^c   Farzaneh, Masoud ^c   Gemignani, Robert ^c   Gillespie, Anthony ^c   Grisham, Thomas ^c   Hill, Robert ^c   Saha, Tapan ^c   Vancia, Bogdan ^c   Yu, Jennifer ^c  

^a ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Composite insulator; Corona ring; E field; Electric field; Grading ring; Nonceramic insulator (NCI); Polymer insulator

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRIC LINES; GRADING; INSULATING MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

COMPOSITE INSULATORS; CORONA RING; E-FIELD; GRADING RINGS; NON-CERAMIC INSULATORS; POLYMER INSULATOR;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 84871547552     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2007.911127     Document Type: Article

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