Course Outline- SUIT (EE-463)

Course Title: Fundamentals of High Voltage Engineering.Revised Credit

hrs: 3 + 0
Recommended Books:
Text Book:
An Introduction to High Voltage Engineering by Subir Ray
Reference Books:
1. High Voltage Engineering 2ND Ed. by M S Naidu & Kamaraju
2. High Voltage Engineering by Dr. Naeem Arbab
Grading Policy:
Midterms 30% Final term 70%
Course Outline and Contents:
Week Course Topics Chapters & Sections

Week 1 Introduction Chapter-01

Need of high voltages, potential and potential gradient, uniform and non uniform 1.1, 1.2,
fields
Week 2 Dielectric materials, capacitances, plasma, spark, flash over, breakdown, 1.3, 1.4,
Assignment 1
Week 3 Energy Processes 1.5
Types of energy processes, energy band theory, collision ionization, Quiz 1
Week 4 Excitation, photo ionization, photo excitation, thermal ionization, conduction 1.6
current, Assignment 2
Week 5 Conduction and Breakdown in Gases Chapter-02
Characteristics of gas insulator, charge transport and conduction in gases, Quiz 2.3,2.4,2.6
2
Week 6 Townsend theory, Townsend criteria, Paschen’s Law, SF 6 gas mixture, 1.6, 2.2, 2.7
Assignment 3
Week 7 Conduction and Breakdown in Liquid Dielectrics Chapter-5
Electric characteristics of liquid dielectrics, testing of liquid dielectrics, Quiz 3 5.1,5.2
Week 8 Behavior and conductivity in liquid dielectrics, breakdown mechanism, sources of 5.2.2, 5.2.3
liquid dielectric contamination
Week 9 Mid Term examination

Week 10 Breakdown in Solid Dielectrics 5.3

Solid dielectrics, conduction and breakdown of solid dielectrics
Week 11 Breakdown by partial discharge, thermal breakdown, streamer breakdown, 5.4
Assignment 4
Week 12 Corona in High Voltage System Chapter-03
Corona discharge, Problem caused by corona, Manifestation of corona, Corona 3.6,3.7,3.8
in transmission line system, Power loss due to corona, Quiz 4
Week 13 Generation of High Voltages and Currents Chapter-06
Generation of High DC. Voltages, High Alternating Voltages, Impulse Voltages, 6.2,6.3
Assignment 5
Week 14 Generation of Impulse Currents, Impulse Generators, Quiz 5 6.4

Week 15 High Voltages Testing of Power System Equipment Chapter-09

High voltage test on line insulators, high voltage test on bushings, high voltage 9.3,9.4,9.5,9.6
test on transformers, high voltage test on cables, Assignment 6
Week 16 Overvoltage Phenomenon Chapter-04
Natural Causes for Overvoltages – Lightning Phenomenon, Overvoltage due to 4.2,4.3,4.4,4.5
Switching Surges, System Faults and Other Abnormal Conditions