| ompressed gas insulated substation (GIS) and transmission line (GITL) equipment have been developed rapidly throughout the world during the past decades. Compactness is the main advantage of GIS and GITL over conventional air-insulated substations and transmission lines. Sulphur hexafluoride (;In this investigation, experiments to study surface charge accumulation under different experimental conditions have been conducted, with a rod-spacer-plane electrode system. The parameters varied are applied voltage levels, insulating gases, gas pressures, spacer materials, rod electrode diameters, and the duration of applied voltages. Experiments with impulse voltage pre-charging were also conducted. It was found that the mechanisms of surface charging are corona, gas conduction, and photoionization. Surface charge magnitude and distribution are strongly field dependent and are related to the duration of voltage application. Spacers in ;In order to determine the effect of surface charges on overall electric field, a surface charge simulation program (the SSM program) was developed to calculate the overall electric field when there are surface charges on a spacer surface. The calculation results show that surface charges significantly distort the overall electric field magnitude, field direction, and distributions, which may explain the anomalous flashover in GIS/GITL systems. It was found that the flashover propagation field on a PTFE spacer surface may be between 6 kV/cm and 10 kV/cm.;High speed photographic observations, with an image intensifier, are suggested to examine the propagation of a flashover. It may, therefore, be possible that, a reasonable model to predict flashover in... |
