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HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEERING (18EE56)

Module 1:

Conduction & Breakdown Phenomenon in Dielectric Materials

Conduction and Breakdown in Gases:


Gases as InsulatingMedia, Collision Process, Ionization Processes, Townsend's Current
Growth Equation, Current Growth in the Presence of Secondary Processes, Townsend's
Criterion for Breakdown, Experimental Determination of Coefficients α and γ, Breakdown in
Electronegative Gases, Time Lags for Breakdown, Streamer Theory of Breakdown in Gases,
Paschen's Law, Breakdown in Non-Uniform Fields and Corona Discharges.

Conduction and Breakdown in Liquid Dielectrics:


Liquids as Insulators, Pure Liquids and Commercial Liquids, Conduction and Breakdown in
Pure Liquids, Conduction and Breakdown in Commercial Liquids.

Breakdown in Solid Dielectrics:


Introduction, Intrinsic Breakdown, Electromechanical Breakdown, Thermal Breakdown.

Text Book: High Voltage Engineering M.S. Naidu, V.Kamaraju McGraw Hill 5 th Edition,
2013.
Module 1

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