Dr S & S S Ghandhy Government Engineering College, Surat
Electrical Engineering Department
Mid Semester Examination Syllabus (Sep-2024)
High Voltage Engineering (3170917)
Chapter Content
3 Electrical breakdown in gases:
Gases as insulating media - ionization and decay processes, Townsend
first ionization coefficient, photo ionization,
4 Breakdown in liquid and solid dielectrics:
Liquid as insulators, breakdown in liquids - electronic breakdown,
suspended solid particle mechanism, cavity breakdown, examples - static
electrification in power transformers, transformer oil filtration,
transformer oil test, alternative liquid insulations like vegetable oils,
esters and silicon oils - breakdown in solids, intrinsic breakdown,
streamer breakdown, electromechanical breakdown, edge breakdown and
treeing, thermal breakdown, erosion breakdown, tracking - breakdown of
solid dielectrics in practice, partial discharges in solid insulation.
5 Generation of high voltages:
Generation of high direct voltages, half and full wave rectifier circuits,
voltage multiplier circuits, Van de Graff generators, electrostatic
generators, examples - generation of alternating voltages, testing
transformers, cascaded transformers, resonant transformers, examples -
impulse voltages, Standard lightning and switching surge and associated
parameters and their corrections, design and construction of impulse
voltage generator circuits, Marx circuit, operation, examples - impulse
current generator.
6 Measurement of high voltages:
High direct voltage measurement, peak voltage measurements by spark
gaps, sphere gaps, reference measuring systems, uniform field gaps, rod
gaps, factors affecting sphere gap measurements, examples - electrostatic
voltmeters - ammeter in series with high ohmic resistors and high ohmic
resistor voltage dividers - generating voltmeters and field sensors - the
measurement of peak voltages, the Chubb–Fortescue method, high-
voltage capacitors for measuring circuits - voltage dividing systems and
impulse voltage measurements.
