self-healing high voltage electrical insulation materials
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CONTENT❖ INTRODUCTION❖ SELF-HEALING TYPES❖ ELECTRICAL TREE❖ HOW IT WORKS❖ MICROCAPSULES❖ TESTING AND RESULTS❖ ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE❖ CONCLUSION❖ REFERENCES
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INTRODUCTION● Self-healing materials have the structurally incorporated
ability to repair damage
● Micro cracking can lead to catastrophic failure of the composites and shorten the service lifetime.
● To self-heal as a direct response to electrical degradation is very attractive, especially in challenging environments.
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WHY SELF-HEALING?★ Traditional repairs are expensive
★ Sense and respond to damage,restore performance without affecting inherent properties
★ No human intervention required
★ Provide early means of detection
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TYPES OF SELF HEALING PROCESS
❖Microcapsule embedment
❖3D-microvascular embedment
❖Electro-hydranamics
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ELECTRICAL TREE
In electrical engineering, treeing is an electrical pre-breakdown phenomenon in solid insulation.
fig 1.electrical tree
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CONTINUED....❖ Damaging process due to partial discharges and progresses
through the stressed dielectric insulation
❖ It is a common breakdown mechanism and source of electrical faults in underground power cables.
❖ Initiated at regions with high local electrical fields, contaminations in the insulation or conducting irregularities/protrusions or voids
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CONTINUED….Local partial discharges will cause chemical degradation and disintegration of the polymer, thus further extending the tree channels until final electrical breakdown occurs.
fig 2. microscopic image of an tree(500nm)
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OCCURENCE❖ Occur at the interface between insulation and conductor or
within the insulation system.
❖ Bulk or surface defects create excessive electrical stress that initiates dielectric breakdown in a small region.
❖ Occurs through as additional small electrical breakdown events (called partial discharges).
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TREE GROWTH❏ The insulation system will never be perfect
❏ Cumulative long term degradation of the insulation may cause inception of electrical trees
❏ A tree or a bush grows depending on the electrical field strength, frequency and voltage waveform
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TYPES OF ELECTRICAL TREEBow-tie trees
● trees which start to grow from within the dielectric insulation and grow symmetrically outwards
toward the electrodes.
● no free supply of air which will enable continuous support of partial discharges.
● discontinuous growth, which is why the bow-tie trees usually do not grow long enough to fully
bridge the entire insulation between the electrodes, therefore causing no failure in the insulation.
Vented trees
● initiate at an electrode insulation interface and grow towards the opposite electrode.
● Having access to free air is a very important factor for the growth of the vented trees.
● grow continuously until they are long enough to bridge the electrodes, therefore causing failure in the
insulation
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HOW IT WORKS
➢ Microcapsules filled with a monomer (healing agent) are added to the insulation materials (epoxy) prior to casting.
➢ When cracks propagate in the material the microcapsules will rupture, releasing liquid healing agent into the crack.
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CONTINUED...
❏ One or more of the branches of the electrical tree will likely break a capsule filling the electrical tree with the liquid monomer.
❏ The final step is the polymerization of the monomer occurs upon contact with a catalyst also added to the epoxy resin.
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CONTINUED..
● As the tree structure is interconnected, most of the tree structure is likely to be filled.
● Depends on the partial pressure and viscosity of the monomer and the surface tension of the hollow tubes
● Also on the availability of monomer relative to the dimensions of the hollow tubes
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CONTINUED● The filling itself should extinguish critical discharges,
making further growth less likely.
● Upon polymerization, further development of the electrical tree should halt, or at least be significantly delayed
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MICROCAPSULESConstituents which combine to form the MICROCAPSULES
✓ Healing Agent- DICYCLOPENTADIENE(DTP)
✓ Microcapsule Shell- UREA-FORMALDEHYDE(UF)
✓ Chemical Catalyst -BIS(TRICYCLOHEXYLPHOSPHINE)
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CONTINUED..POLYMER MATRIX- EPOXY POLYMERFIBER REINFORCEMENT - CARBON FIBER
fig 4.microscopic image of ruptured microcapsule
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TESTING TESTING SETUP FOR A EPOXY POLYMER1-optical microscope connect-ed to computer2-sample specimen3-voltage source4- variac5-current sensing resistor
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RESULTAn optical micrograph taken at 200X magnification reflecting a range of characteristics for the interaction of electrical trees and microcapsules as embedded in the epoxy matrix is shown 1. 2.
fig4.Optical micrograph obtained in a sample containing 1.no catalyst 2.catalyst21
RESULT AND DISCUSSION● the predominant trend for the present dataset is for the
electrical trees to be attracted by the microcapsules
● The electrical properties of the capsule material (complex permittivity and conductivity) have not been measured as part of this study, but will be so in the future.
● electrical trees were repeatedly observed to enter microcapsules and subsequently seemed to stop growing.
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ADVANTAGES● anything that cannot be reached at the moment of
damage can be repaired
● less cost in maintenance
● lifetime of the insulation material is increased
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DISADVANTAGES
❖ this method self healing is very expensive
❖ only 70-80% strength was obtained after self-healing process
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CONCLUSION
❖ Electrical trees formed by faults/contaminants inside the insulation material can be stopped/delayed by the introduction of microcapsules containing a healing agent.
❖ They may be healed before growing to sizes that could sustain partial discharges and thus the inception of electrical trees.
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