Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Grzybowski, Stanislaw

Committee Member

Ginn, Herbert L.

Committee Member

Schulz, Noel

Committee Member

Fowler, Jim

Date of Degree

12-11-2009

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Electrical Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

A growing trend in the electrical industry is to move away from overhead lines and towards underground distribution. The cables necessary for underground distribution are stressed in various ways, and one of the most ignored stresses is that of overvoltage caused by switching. The focus of this research is to determine the effects that high voltage switching impulses have on the electrical strength of medium voltage cable insulation. Accelerated aging was performed on multiple samples of XLPE and EPR cables by applying multitudes of switching impulses. At various stages of the aging process, partial discharge measurements were taken. At the end of the aging process, the ac breakdown voltage of each cable sample was determined. While more testing is necessary to gain a greater understanding of this subject, the results obtained in this study show that switching impulses weaken cable insulation, which may lead to premature failure of distribution cables.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/19395

Comments

power cables||switching impulses||partial discharge

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