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High voltage and electrical insulation engineering
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Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley and Sons, 2010
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xvi, 377 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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9780470609613
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The book is written for students as well as for teachers and researchers in the field of High Voltage and Insulation Engineering. It is based on the advance level courses conducted at TU Dresden, Germany and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. The book has a novel approach describing the fundamental concept of field dependent behavior of dielectrics subjected to high voltage. There is no other book in the field of high voltage engineering following this new approach in describing the behavior of dielectrics.

The contents begin with the description of fundamental terminology in the subject of high voltage engineering. It is followed by the classification of electric fields and the techniques of field estimation. Performance of gaseous, liquid and solid dielectrics under different field conditions is described in the subsequent chapters. Separate chapters on vacuum as insulation and the lightning phenomenon are included.


Author Notes

Dr. Ravindra Arora retired from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in May 2008, where he worked for thirty-four years. At IITK, he established a unique high voltage laboratory, where he conducted research activity for more than forty master's theses, two PhDs, and a large number of undergraduate projects, besides having completed several industry-sponsored projects. He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 1988 and is a Life Member of the Institution of Engineers (India).

Dr. Wolfgang Mosch retired as head and chair professor of the Institute of High Voltage Technology in the Electrical Engineering (Power) Division of Technical University Dresden, Germany, in 1993. He has been actively involved with teaching, research, and industry in high voltage and insulation engineering since 1960.


Table of Contents

1 Introduction
1.1 Electric Charge and Discharge
1.2 Electric & Management Fields and Electromagnetics
1.3 Dielectric and Electrical Insulation
1.4 Electrical Breakdown
1.5 Corona, Streamer and Aurora
1.6 Capacitance and Capacitor
2 Electric Fields, their Control and Estimation
2.1 Electric Field Intensity, âÇ EâÇÖ
2.2 Breakdown and Electric Strength of Dielectrics, âÇ EbâÇÖ
2.3 Classification of Electric Fields
2.4 Control of Electric Field Intensity (Stress Control)
2.5 Estimation of Electric Field Intensity
3 Field dependent Behaviour of Air and other Gaseous Dielectrics
3.1 Fundamentals of Field Assisted Generation of Charge Carriers
3.2 Breakdown in uniform and weakly nonuniform fields
3.3 Breakdown in Extremely Nonuniform Fields and Corona
3.4 Electric Arcs and Their Characteristics
3.5 Properties of Sulphurhexafluoride, SF6 Gas and Its Application in Electrical Installations
4 Lightning and Ball Lightning, Development Mechanisms, Deleterious Effects and Protection
4.1 The Globe, a Capacitor
4.2 Mechanisms of lightning strike
5 Electrical Properties of Vacuum as High Voltage Insulation
5.1 Prebreakdown Electron Emission in Vacuum
5.2 Prebreakdown Conduction and Spark Breakdown in Vacuum
5.3 Vacuum as Insulation in Space Applications
5.4 Conclusion
6 Liquid Dielectrics, their Classification, Properties and Breakdown Strength
6.1 Classification of Liquid Dielectrics
6.2 Dielectric Properties of Insulating Materials
6.3 Breakdown in Liquid Dielectrics
6.4 Ageing in Mineral Insulating Oils
7 Solid Dielectrics, their Sources, Properties and Behaviour in Electric Fields
7.1 Classification of Solid Insulting Materials
7.2 Partial Breakdown in Solid Dielectrics
7.3 Breakdown and Prebreakdown Phenomena in Solid