• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.425-428
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• 1996

Treeing deterioration which is one of the main cause of breakdown in insulating materials is affected by temperature, applied voltage and frequency. In this study, GN was introduced to improve impact strength of DGEBA/MDA system and the temperature dependence of AC treeing deterioration in this system was investigated. Dielectric breakdown strength decreased with the increment of temperature. As temperature increased, the growth rate of tree Increased.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07b
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• pp.1655-1657
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• 1994

To measure treeing, visual measurement with an optical microscope has been used to explain breakdown mechanism by treeing in materials. The conventional direct visual method of tree deterioration observation is difficult to measure in short time processing, and impossible to analyze the deteriorated area by treeing, direction of tree growth, tree patterns etc. In this paper, we have developed a tree-measuring system using image processing for the tree growth, the area of deterioration, and other progresses of treeing. As experimental result, image processing is an effective alternative to direct visual observation method.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.11
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• pp.1571-1577
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• 2013

Electrical tree structure is one of the most important influencing factors for electrical treeing characteristics in polymers. In this paper, we focused on the structure characteristics of electrical treeing in epoxy resins (original) insulation under different high-frequency voltages (60, 500, 1000Hz). Effects of voltage frequency on the ac electrical treeing phenomena in an epoxy resins were carried out in needle-plate electrode arrangement. To measure the treeing initiation and propagation, and the breakdown rate, constant AC of 10 kV with three different voltage frequencies (60, 500 and 1,000 Hz) was applied to the specimen in needle-plate electrode specimen at $30^{\circ}C$ of insulating oil bath. At 60 Hz, the treeing initiation time was 360 min and the propagation rate was $6.85{\times}10^{-4}mm/min$, and the morphology was dense branch type. As the voltage frequency increased, the treeing initiation time decreased and the propagation rate increased. At 1,000 Hz, the treeing initiation time was 0 min and the propagation rate was $7.81{\times}10^{-2}mm/min$, and the morphology was dense bush type.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07e
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• pp.2345-2348
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• 1999

Existing $\psi$-AEA-t (phase-AEA-time) characteristic in polymer materials for power cable is good in general deterioration characteristic according to time variation, but it is difficult to clearly distinguish from deterioration state and diagnosis of deterioration is not enough to some extent. This paper is interpreted AE discharge statistics quantities measuring phase-amplitude variation of acoustic emission characteristic obtained from treeing breakdown experiment. Besides it can know useful discharge statistics quantities (AE average inception phase/amplitude, AE average maximum phase/amplitude) about so many for diagnosis of treeing deterioration.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.398-403
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• 1999

Studies on the electrical treeing deterioration and dielectric breakdown phenomena in the polymeric insulator of polyethylene and epoxy resin were carried out. Block type samples with needle-plane electrode geometry were electrically stressed and the tree pattern from the needle tip was observed. In LDPE the density of electrical tree was very high and its pattern was bush type. For the case of XLPE, branched tree was observed. As temperature and SN content increased, the dielectric breakdown voltage decreased and the treeing phenomena became more complicated. Fan type cracks were observed around the conducting tree path in the brittle DGEBA/MDA system.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.67 no.10
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• pp.1322-1329
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• 2018

In this paper, the reliability test of three kinds of epoxy resin for GIS Spacer, which is a high voltage based heavy electric machine, AC electrical treeing experiments were performed. Three types of epoxy resins, Araldite B41, CT 5531 CI and B46, have slight viscosity differences. An non-uniform electric field, E = 1149.4 kV/mm, as the needle to plate electrode, a power source with a frequency of 1 kHz was applied to the tree electrode for accelerated deterioration. The treeing phenomena of the three kinds of epoxy resin all initiated, propagated, and destroyed by the branch tree. Epoxy Resin B46 was 145 times longer than B41 and 53 times longer than CT 5531CI. I think that the choice of epoxy resin is very important in choosing high voltage heavy electric machine insulation materials.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07e
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• pp.2335-2337
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• 1999

In this paper, using AE (Acoustic Emission) sensor the electrical and emitted-sound signals are measured by treeing breakdown in the epoxy resin, and the corresponding frequency spectrum of the AE signals are analyzed. We also examined the relationship between partial discharge magnitude and pulse number of AE signals to diagnose the deterioration of the electrical insulation due to treeing breakdown. From these results, a frequency band of AE signals through treeing breakdown was set to about 230 [kHz], and it appeared that pulse number of AE signal was proportional to partial discharge magnitude.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1992.07b
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• pp.973-975
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• 1992

The Acoustic Emission due to treeing progress in Crosslinked Polyethylene(XLPE) is studied by using the self developed automatic measuring system of acoustic emission. Tree progression and average pulse amplitude are almost in proportion to the rising of applied voltage but there is no proportionality relation between tree progression and pulse numbers. From now on, Skewness and kurtosis of average cycle, special property of $\phi$-a distribution characteristics can be confirmed as the useful parameters of treeing deterioration.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.73-81
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• 1999

Measurements of ultrasonic signals caused by partial discharges were perlonnrl by using an ultrasonic measurement technique to diagnose the electrical treeing deterioration in an epoxy mold-type power transformer. We also examined the characteristics of tree growth, partial discharge magnitude and ultrasonic pulse number with the increase of the deterioration time. From these results, it was found that the shape of the tree was a branch-type, and the rates of the tree growth were examined when ac voltages of 16[kV] and 20[kV] were applied Ultrasonic pulse number and discharge magnitude were rapidly increased as the length of the tree grows after the middle stage of the deterioration time, and it appeared that ultrasonic pulse number was proportional to discharge magnitude. Attenuation, time-delaying and directivity characteristics of ultrasonic signals propagated into epoxy resin by using ultrasonic oscillation and receiving systems are also re[prted as a basic data of ultrasonic mesasurements in mold-type power transformer.former.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1996.11a
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• pp.311-315
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• 1996

This Paper is to discribe the ac treeing deterioration in Polyethylenetherphthalate (PET) at various temperature. The AC tree was investigated at 77K using L$N_2$. The experimental results show that V-t characteristics was an inverse proportion to temperature. The progress of tree initiation and growth were also to temperature.