A Study on Phenomena of Watertree and Dielectric Breakdown in XLPE

XLPE의 수트리와 절연파괴 현상에 관한 연구

In order to investigate the water tree degradation behavior on XLPE cable, direct voltage of 200 to 800V has been applied to the material at $50^{\circ}C\sim100^{\circ}C$. and the water tree property has been correlated with voltage and temperature in this study. The leakage current was shown to increase as temperature increased and the Ohm's law was generally satisfied in this experiment though some experimental errors were found. The leakage current was shown to decrease and reach to the stable state with time. It was also shown that the time for the stabilization of leakage current was lessened as voltage increased