Partial Discharge Characteristics in Composite Insulation Systems with PPLP for HTS Cable

11th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity

Kikuchi, Y.^1 ; Yamashita, K.^1 ; Kumada, A.^1 ; Hidaka, K.^1 ; Tatamidani, K.^2 ; Masuda, T.^2

Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, University of Tokyo, Japan^1

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan^2

关键词: Composite insulation systems;    Cost-effective methods;    Electrical insulation systems;    Gaseous nitrogen;    High temperature superconducting cables;    Insulation layers;    Insulation performance;    Partial discharge characteristics;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/507/3/032024/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/507/3/032024

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The electrical insulation system of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cable consists of liquid nitrogen (N2(l)) and polypropylene laminated paper (PPLP). Partial discharge (PD) may occur in butt gaps of the insulation layers and its characteristics imply the insulation performance of HTS cables. N2(l) cooling system is installed in the power system and N2(l) will flow through the cables during the system operation. Filling the HTS cable with N2(l) in order to perform pre-shipment inspection is time-consuming and costly for cable manufacturers. Therefore, they are trying to find a cost effective method for pre-shipment inspections. One alternative is to use high pressure gaseous nitrogen (N2(g)) instead of N2(l). This article investigates PD characteristics such as PD inception electric field (PDIE) and PD extinction electric field (PDEE) in butt gaps of HTS cables in 0.1 to 0.3 MPa and 0.1 MPa to 1.0 MPa N2(g) environments. For assessing the surface/volume effects, PD characteristics are measured with changing the size of butt gaps. It turns out that PDIE and PDEE in N2(g) are linearly correlated with those in N2(l) at any gas pressure in our testing, and PDIE in 1.0 MPa N2(g) is almost 30% of that in 0.2 MPa It suggests that PD characteristics in N2(l) can be extrapolated from those in N2(g).