Partial Discharge Inception Voltage in DC insulation systems: a comparison with AC voltage supply

In this paper the AC and DC partial discharge inception voltages, PDIV, are modeled and validated through measurements performed on multi-layer flat specimens with artificial defects. The results highlight that, depending on temperature and material conductivity, there can be a large difference between PDIV under DC and AC, which depends on insulation temperature, thus, e.g., cable loading. Indeed PDIV-DC can be much larger than PDIV-AC at room temperature, but the two values can be very close (with PDIV -DC being even smaller than PDIV-AC) at maximum operating temperature, i.e. full load.

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