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Voltage Sag due to Pollution Induced Flashover Across Ceramic Insulator Strings

  • Subba Reddy B EMAIL logo and Arup Kumar Goswami
Published/Copyright: November 24, 2017

Abstract

Voltage sag or voltage dips are significant to industrial reliability. There is a necessity to characterize the feeder level power quality (PQ) and the PQ performance among various utility companies. Contamination/pollution induced flashover is the ultimate consequence of the creeping discharges across the insulator strings which induce voltage sag. These have a severe threat on the safe and reliable operation of power systems. In the present work an attempt has been made to experimentally investigate the occurrence of voltage sag/dips during pollution induced flashovers. Results show significant dip/sag in the voltage magnitude during the flashover process.

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Received: 2016-7-31
Accepted: 2017-11-10
Published Online: 2017-11-24

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