SylabUZ
| Course name | High-voltage engineering |
| Course ID | 06.2-WE-ELEKTP-HVE-Er |
| Faculty | Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Automatics |
| Field of study | Electrical Engineering |
| Education profile | academic |
| Level of studies | First-cycle Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2021/2022 |
| Semester | 4 |
| ECTS credits to win | 4 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
| Author of syllabus |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Lecture | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
| Laboratory | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
To familiarize students with the basic physical processes occurring during the operation of high-voltage systems; developing students understand the specificity of high-voltage systems as regards their measurements and design
Circuit theory, Electromagnetic field theory , Fundamentals of electrical power engineering.
Introduction. Subject and range of discipline. Electric field distributions. Electric field non-uniformity coefficient. Ionization and deionization processes.
Electric breakdown strength of materials and composite insulation. Electrical breakdown in gases. Townsend’s mechanism. Paschen’s law. Streamer mechanism of spark breakdown. Breakdown under impulse voltage. Insulating properties of high-pressure gas. Processes of electrical breakdown in liquids. Effect of oil contamination on the electrical strength. Breakdown processes in solid dielectrics. Partial discharges. Dielectric aging. Breakdown in composite insulation. Forms of surface discharge.
Overvoltages. Types of overvoltages. External and internal overvoltages. Wave phenomena in electrical power transmission power lines. Travelling waves in real conditions.
Lightning protection and transit overvoltage protection. Lightning overvoltages. Lightning protection. Overvoltage protection. Coordination of overvoltage protection.
Electrical insulation systems. Principles of insulation coordination. Outdoor and indoor high voltage insulators. Electrical insulation of rotating machines, transformers and cables. High voltage testing techniques. High voltage measurements. High voltage measurements safety.
Lecture, laboratory exercises
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Lecture – a condition of passing is to obtain positive grades from written or oral tests conducted at least once in a semester.
Laboratory – the passing condition is to obtain positive marks from all laboratory exercises to be planned during the semester
Calculation of the final grade: lecture 60% + laboratory 40%
1. Flisowski Z.: High voltage technique, WNT W-wa, 2005 (in Polish)
2. Naidu M.S., Karamaju V. High voltage engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1995
3. Kufel J., Kufel E., Zaengl W.S.: High voltage engineering Fundamentals, Elsevier 2000
Modified by dr hab. inż. Paweł Szcześniak, prof. UZ (last modification: 08-07-2021 21:49)
