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This document discusses high voltage systems and contains 6 questions: 1. It asks about estimating the temperature of a light bulb filament from its material properties and operating voltage, and calculates the voltage required to cause it to melt. 2. It calculates the skin depth of copper and iron wires carrying 50Hz current, and compares their economic advantages. 3. It asks to calculate the hysteresis and eddy current losses of a transformer core from test data. 4. It calculates the dielectric loss and insulation resistance of a high voltage 3-phase cable. 5. It compares the test power requirements for overvoltage testing the cable at 200% and peak rated voltages. 6. It

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Elec9712-23 - Tutorial 1

This document discusses high voltage systems and contains 6 questions: 1. It asks about estimating the temperature of a light bulb filament from its material properties and operating voltage, and calculates the voltage required to cause it to melt. 2. It calculates the skin depth of copper and iron wires carrying 50Hz current, and compares their economic advantages. 3. It asks to calculate the hysteresis and eddy current losses of a transformer core from test data. 4. It calculates the dielectric loss and insulation resistance of a high voltage 3-phase cable. 5. It compares the test power requirements for overvoltage testing the cable at 200% and peak rated voltages. 6. It

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ELEC9712

High Voltage Systems


Tutorial 1

1. Consider a 60W, 240V incandescent light bulb. Its tungsten filament has a length of
1.1m and a diameter of 34m. Its resistivity at room temperature is 56 n.m. The
resistivity dependence on temperature can be represented as:
n
T 
 = o  
 To 
where:
T = temperature in K
o = resistivity of the filament at temperature To
n = 1.2
(a) Estimate the temperature of the filament when it is operated at the rated voltage;
(b) Suppose that the power dissipated from the filament is totally radiated from its
surface. This can be described by Stefan’s Law. If the emissivity of the tungsten
filament surface is 0.2, estimate the temperature of the filament and compare it
with the answer in part (a) above.
(c) If the tungsten melting temperature is 3407 oC, what is the voltage that will cause
the light bulb to blow ?

2.
(a) What is the skin depth for a copper wire carrying a current at 50Hz? The resistivity
of copper at 27 oC is 18 n.m and its relative permeability is r  1 . Is there any
sense in using a copper conductor with a diameter of more than 2cm for power
transmission?
(b) What is the skin depth for an iron wire carrying a current at 50Hz? The resistivity
of iron at 27 oC is 97 n.m and its relative permeability is r  700 . How does
this compare with the copper wire? Considering that iron is 100 times cheaper than
copper, is there any economic advantage in using iron?
(c) Estimate the ratio of the 50Hz-to-DC resistance of a copper bar with a 4cm x 8cm
rectangular cross section. Recalculate this ratio for 1MHz, comment on the results.

3. The core losses in a transformer comprise the hysteresis loss and the eddy current loss:
P = Ph + Pe = k1 fBmn + k2 f 2 Bm2
When operating at 440V/50Hz a transformer has a core loss of 2.5kW. When operating
at 220V and 25Hz, the core loss is 850W. Calculate the hysteresis loss and the eddy
current loss of the core of this transformer.

4. Calculate the total dielectric loss that will occur with a 20 km long three-phase 330 kV
cable if the cable comprises three separate single core coaxial cables operating at phase
voltage and 50 Hz. The capacitance of the single core cable per metre is 350 pF and the
Dielectric Dissipation Factor (tanδ) of the cable insulation is 0.008.

If the cable dimensions are: conductor radius 24mm, insulation thickness 18 mm and
the insulation resistivity is 4.0 1012 ohm.m, calculate the insulation resistance per metre
of each single core cable and the total insulation resistance of the 20 km cable length.
Calculate the leakage current loss and compare it to the dielectric loss.
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5. If the above cable were required to be tested by an overvoltage test, compare the power
requirements (including both real and reactive power components) of the test source that
would be needed on site to perform the test with the following test voltage levels:
(a) AC voltage at 200% of rated voltage (2Uo) of the cable.
(b) DC voltage at a level corresponding to the peak value of the AC test voltage used
in (a) above.

6. In the dielectric field configuration shown in the following diagram, the mapping of
equi-potentials and flux lines produced the field distribution shown between the two
(metallic) electrode surfaces. You can assume that the field distribution is three-
dimensional, with uniformity along the axis normal to the page.

The medium between the electrodes is an insulator with relative permittivity  r = 5.0
and a total voltage between the two electrodes of 50 kV DC. Assume the field extends
for a depth of 0.2 m into the page.

Calculate the total capacitance. Determine the magnitudes of the flux densities and
potential gradients at the locations A and B. Find also the magnitudes of the total flux in
each case.

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