Subject Code: EE6L015 Subject Name: Advanced High Voltage Engg. L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credits: 3
Pre-requisite(s): High Voltage Engineering
High Voltage Testing of Electrical Apparatus: Testing of Insulators and bushings, Testing of Isolators and circuit breakers, Testing of cables, Testing of Transformers, Testing of Surge Arresters, Radio Interference measurements; Electrostatic applications: Electrostatic separation, electro-static coating of materials, electro-static precipitation, electro-static copying; Plasma-based applications: Ion Beam accelerators, Ion nitriding for surface hardening of materials, Ion thrusters for space applications. Nuclear Electro-magnetic Pulse simulation; Pulsed Power Engineering: Capacitive and inductive energy storage, pulse forming lines, switches for pulsed power. High voltage sources for Cathode ray oscilloscopes and electron microscopes; Non Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma: Non-thermal plasma stabilization at high pressure, Townsend and spark breakdown mechanisms, corona discharge, pulse corona discharge, dielectric barrier discharge, spark discharge, atmospheric pressure glows, microplasmas, plasma discharge in water.
Text/ Reference Books:
  1. D. K. K. Feser, and Y. N. Rao “High-Voltage Test Techniques” Newnes, 2001.
  2. D. A. Lloyd “Electrostatic Precipitator Handbook,” Institute of Physics Publishing, 1988.
  3. M. Haddad and D. Warne “Advances in High Voltage Engineering” IET, 2009.
  4. J. Ernest Harry ‘Introduction to Plasma Technology’ Wiley-vch Verlag Gmbh, 2010.
  5. J. Reece Roth, J. Reece Roth, and Roth J. Reece ‘Industrial Plasma Engineering – Volume-2’ Taylor & Francis Group, 2001.
  6. B. M. Penetrante, ‘Non-Thermal Plasma Techniques for Pollution Control: Part B: Electron Beam and Electrical Discharge Processing’ Springer, 2012.
  7. Research publications that will be suggested during the course.