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High voltages technology
FEKT-NTVNAcad. year: 2018/2019
Maxwell´s equations. Examination of the electric field. Dielectric properties of substances. Electrical discharges. Testing power sources. Measurement of high voltages and heavy currents. Overvoltages and insulation coordination in power system.
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Requirement for the credit: min. 25 points.
Final Examination: max. 51 points.
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2) High voltage and current measuring. Measuring by electrodes, impulse coaxial shunt resistors, capacitive and resistive voltage dividers.
3) The equipment of HV laboratories.
4) Terms used in high voltage technology, basic principles and types of discharges.
5) DC, AC and impulse test sources. Types of voltage and current impulses, chopping gap.
6) Test carried out in HV laboratories. Testing of insulators, surge arresters, cables. Measuring electric strength of insulating materials.
7) High voltage multipliers and bond wires.
8) High frequency high voltage laboratory sources, Tesla coil.
9) Wireless electric energy transfer.
10) The principles of measurement and evaluation of partial discharge.
11) Electrostatics and Maxwell's equations.
12) Discharges in an inhomogeneous electric field, distribution of impulse of across the coil, the voltage distribution on insulator chain.
13) Atmospheric discharges. Formation, types, parameters and line protection.
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Basic literature
Blažek,V.,Skala,P.: Vysoké napětí a elektrické přístroje, Laboratorní cvičení, Část I:Vysoké napětí, elektronický text, FEKT VUT v Brně,2003
Kuffel, E., Zaengl, W.S., Kuffel, J.: High Voltage Engineering: Fundamentals, Newnes, 2000, ISBN 0 7506 3634 3
Veverka,A.: Technika vysokých napětí, SNTL, 1978.
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