A Study of Electrical Aging of the Turn-to-Turn Oil-Paper Insulation in Transformers with a Step-Stress Method

Hongyan Nie, Xinlao Wei, Yonghong Wang and Qingguo Chen
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Hongyan Nie: Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectrics and Its Application, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Xinlao Wei: Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectrics and Its Application, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Yonghong Wang: Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectrics and Its Application, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China
Qingguo Chen: Key Laboratory of Engineering Dielectrics and Its Application, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 12, 1-16

Abstract: This study investigates the electrical aging characteristics of oil-paper composite insulation. In this paper, a coils model and test system for oil-paper transformer insulation are designed. The electrical aging tests of the model coils at room temperature and operating temperature are performed using the step-stress method. A new method for estimating the unknown parameters in the inverse power exponent model is proposed, and the inverse power model life formula expressed by voltage and electric field strength is obtained. Considering the electrical aging process at the operating temperature, the allowable field strength of the inter-turn insulation of oil-immersed transformers can be improved. The new parameter estimation method proposed in this paper can be used to calculate the unknown parameters of the step-stress solid insulation aging model. This method has a clear physical meaning and can be solved easily. When the stressed voltage is below a certain threshold value, the life of the transformer coil turn-to-turn insulation grease oiled paper model is longer at operating temperatures compared with that at room temperature; when the voltage is higher than the threshold, it presents the opposite tendency.

Keywords: step stress; electrical aging; oil-immersed paper turn-to-turn insulation; transformer; parameter estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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