This 3-credit course covers fundamentals of high voltage engineering over 16 weeks. The course topics include dielectric materials, gas and liquid breakdown mechanisms, partial discharge, corona effects, high voltage generation and testing. Students will complete 6 assignments and take 5 quizzes and a midterm exam. The final exam will count for 70% of the overall grade. Key recommended textbooks are listed for reference.
This 3-credit course covers fundamentals of high voltage engineering over 16 weeks. The course topics include dielectric materials, gas and liquid breakdown mechanisms, partial discharge, corona effects, high voltage generation and testing. Students will complete 6 assignments and take 5 quizzes and a midterm exam. The final exam will count for 70% of the overall grade. Key recommended textbooks are listed for reference.
This 3-credit course covers fundamentals of high voltage engineering over 16 weeks. The course topics include dielectric materials, gas and liquid breakdown mechanisms, partial discharge, corona effects, high voltage generation and testing. Students will complete 6 assignments and take 5 quizzes and a midterm exam. The final exam will count for 70% of the overall grade. Key recommended textbooks are listed for reference.
This 3-credit course covers fundamentals of high voltage engineering over 16 weeks. The course topics include dielectric materials, gas and liquid breakdown mechanisms, partial discharge, corona effects, high voltage generation and testing. Students will complete 6 assignments and take 5 quizzes and a midterm exam. The final exam will count for 70% of the overall grade. Key recommended textbooks are listed for reference.
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Course Outline- SUIT (EE-463)
Course Title: Fundamentals of High Voltage Engineering.Revised Credit
hrs: 3 + 0 Recommended Books: Text Book: An Introduction to High Voltage Engineering by Subir Ray Reference Books: 1. High Voltage Engineering 2ND Ed. by M S Naidu & Kamaraju 2. High Voltage Engineering by Dr. Naeem Arbab Grading Policy: Midterms 30% Final term 70% Course Outline and Contents: Week Course Topics Chapters & Sections
Week 1 Introduction Chapter-01
Need of high voltages, potential and potential gradient, uniform and non uniform 1.1, 1.2, fields Week 2 Dielectric materials, capacitances, plasma, spark, flash over, breakdown, 1.3, 1.4, Assignment 1 Week 3 Energy Processes 1.5 Types of energy processes, energy band theory, collision ionization, Quiz 1 Week 4 Excitation, photo ionization, photo excitation, thermal ionization, conduction 1.6 current, Assignment 2 Week 5 Conduction and Breakdown in Gases Chapter-02 Characteristics of gas insulator, charge transport and conduction in gases, Quiz 2.3,2.4,2.6 2 Week 6 Townsend theory, Townsend criteria, Paschen’s Law, SF 6 gas mixture, 1.6, 2.2, 2.7 Assignment 3 Week 7 Conduction and Breakdown in Liquid Dielectrics Chapter-5 Electric characteristics of liquid dielectrics, testing of liquid dielectrics, Quiz 3 5.1,5.2 Week 8 Behavior and conductivity in liquid dielectrics, breakdown mechanism, sources of 5.2.2, 5.2.3 liquid dielectric contamination Week 9 Mid Term examination
Week 10 Breakdown in Solid Dielectrics 5.3
Solid dielectrics, conduction and breakdown of solid dielectrics Week 11 Breakdown by partial discharge, thermal breakdown, streamer breakdown, 5.4 Assignment 4 Week 12 Corona in High Voltage System Chapter-03 Corona discharge, Problem caused by corona, Manifestation of corona, Corona 3.6,3.7,3.8 in transmission line system, Power loss due to corona, Quiz 4 Week 13 Generation of High Voltages and Currents Chapter-06 Generation of High DC. Voltages, High Alternating Voltages, Impulse Voltages, 6.2,6.3 Assignment 5 Week 14 Generation of Impulse Currents, Impulse Generators, Quiz 5 6.4
Week 15 High Voltages Testing of Power System Equipment Chapter-09
High voltage test on line insulators, high voltage test on bushings, high voltage 9.3,9.4,9.5,9.6 test on transformers, high voltage test on cables, Assignment 6 Week 16 Overvoltage Phenomenon Chapter-04 Natural Causes for Overvoltages – Lightning Phenomenon, Overvoltage due to 4.2,4.3,4.4,4.5 Switching Surges, System Faults and Other Abnormal Conditions