纳秒脉冲下变压器油两相流注放电仿真研究

为揭示液体电介质击穿过程中形成的气体放电通道对液体电介质放电过程的影响,以针—板电极间隙变压器油为研究对象,基于等离子体流体力学模型,引入了液体电介质放电过程中气相放电通道对电离机制及自由电荷迁移率的影响,建立了用于模拟脉冲电压下液体电介质放电过程的两相流体模型,仿真研究了纳秒脉冲下针板电极流注放电的起始与发展过程。仿真结果表明:采用Heaviside方程可以在模型的不同区域同时实现气相物理过程和液相物理过程的模拟与计算。气相物理过程的引入导致流注尾部电场显著降低,流注头部电场进一步增强,使流注通道的发展速度要高于传统液相模型,有助于加深对纳秒脉冲下液体电介质中预击穿流注的起始、发展过程的认识和理解。     

大气压空气纳秒脉冲板-板放电中逃逸电子产生机理

经典放电理论(Townsend和流注理论)解释纳秒脉冲气体放电存在局限性,近年来基于高能电子逃逸的纳秒脉冲气体放电理论研究受到广泛关注.但是目前对大气压空气纳秒脉冲板-板放电中逃逸电子产生机理研究仍较少,严重阻碍了纳秒脉冲放电等离子体的应用发展.本文利用一维粒子模型,对幅值为20 kV的纳秒脉冲电压驱动下,间隙长为1 mm的板-板电极之间的大气压空气放电中逃逸电子的产生机理进行了数值模拟研究..结果表明,在空间电荷动力学行为的影响下,板-板电极之间出现了增强电场区域,使得电子可以满足电子逃逸判据而进入逃逸模式.此外,还观察到放电通道前逃逸电子的预电离效应导致了二次电子崩的产生,随着二次电子崩与放电通道不断汇聚,引导并加速了放电通道的发展,最终导致气隙击穿.本研究进一步揭示了纳秒脉冲板-板放电机理,拓展了纳秒脉冲气体放电基础理论,为纳秒脉冲放电等离子体的应用和发展开辟了新的机会.     

纳秒脉冲气体放电机理探讨

 经典Townsend机理和流注理论是气体放电研究的基础,但在解释纳秒脉冲气体放电时均存在一定缺陷。基于经典气体放电理论,探讨纳秒脉冲气体放电机理,分析流注理论判据在纳秒脉冲气体放电中的有效性,解释纳秒脉冲下电子逃逸现象和基于电子逃逸的快速电离波击穿理论,仿真计算高能快电子的逃逸过程。结果认为基于高能量快电子的逃逸击穿将是可能解释纳秒脉冲下气体放电现象的依据。     

低气压氙气介质阻挡放电的一维仿真研究

通过建立一个自洽耦合的一维流体模型来描述低气压氙气介质阻挡放电(DBD),并采用有限元法对模型进行数值仿真研究,得到了不同外加电压幅值和频率下的气体间隙压降、放电电流、介质表面电荷随时间的变化关系以及电子、离子、中性粒子和空间电场的时域分布.仿真结果表明:介质表面电荷对放电的点燃与熄灭起着关键的作用;在一个放电周期内,根据气体间隙压降的变化情况,介质表面电荷可按六个阶段进行分析;随着外施电压幅值的增加,间隙击穿逐渐提前至外施电压过零点之前发生,放电更为剧烈;随着外施电压频率的提高,气体间隙压降减小,间隙容易击穿,放电也更加均匀.粒子及空间电场的时域分布表明氙气DBD为典型的辉光放电.     

基于电致伸缩效应的水中纳秒脉冲放电起始机制

水中纳秒脉冲放电的起始阶段包含了丰富的物理过程,现有实验诊断技术在揭示数纳秒内液体中电荷输运、倍增过程方面还有不少困难,放电起始的机制尚不明确.本文建立了针板电极二维轴对称水中放电物理模型,仿真研究纳秒脉冲导致的水中电致伸缩效应、空化过程和随后的液体电离过程.结果表明,在纳秒脉冲电压作用下,电致伸缩效应可导致针尖附近数微米区域内的液体发生空化,形成大量纳米尺度的空腔;空腔在其表面电致伸缩压强的作用下膨胀,为电子提供了加速空间;高能电子可引发水分子的碰撞电离,使局域液体被快速电离.电致伸缩机制为理解水中纳秒脉冲放电的起始过程提供了新的视角.     

液体介质微/纳秒脉冲放电的特性与机理:现状及进展

液相放电是高电压与绝缘技术领域持续的研究热点,深入理解微/纳秒脉冲放电的特性与机理有利于促进液相放电在电气装备设计优化、深远海勘探、先进材料制备等前沿领域的创新与突破。总结梳理了近年来液体介质微/纳秒脉冲流注放电特性与机理研究的进展,从放电模式与转化、分叉行为、击穿过程等方面阐释了流注放电的基础特性,归纳了液体电导率、压强、溶解气体、杂质与添加剂等物性参数对流注放电特性的影响规律,分析了液体介质流注放电起始与发展机制（包括气泡理论、液相直接碰撞电离、场致分子电离、电致伸缩效应等）及其适用范围。在此基础上,展望了液相放电领域的发展方向和面临的挑战,为相关领域的基础研究和工程应用提供参考。     

快前沿直线脉冲变压器多间隙气体开关直流自击穿特性

针对一种用于快前沿直线脉冲变压器(FLTD)的堆栈式多间隙气体开关,研究了电极表面粗糙度、电场不均匀系数、放电电流、气体压强等因素对开关自击穿电压分散性的影响.电极表面粗糙度0.1-0.8μm时,击穿电压平均值没有明显变化,击穿电压分散性小于1.5%;电场不均匀系数为1.20和1.30时,电极烧蚀均匀,开关自击穿电压分...     

纳秒脉冲下几种液态介质绝缘性能的比对

利用自行研制的纳秒脉冲实验平台(输出脉冲前沿30 ns,半宽百纳秒)和标准介电强度测试仪,对变压器油、甘油、去离子水、Galden HT200四种液体绝缘介质在直流与纳秒脉冲下的击穿特性进行了实验研究与结果比对,结果表明:在直流与纳秒脉冲下,Galden HT200均具有最高的击穿场强,且两种情况下均比变压器油高出40%以上;纳秒脉冲下,Galden HT200与变压器油的击穿场强均提高6.5~7倍,Galden HT200击穿过程耗时最短(ns量级),其次是变压器油(20 ns),然后依次为甘油(45 ns)和去离子水(70 ns);多次放电后,粘度系数最大的甘油更易在电极间隙处聚集碳化放电产物,粘度系数较小的Galden HT200和去离子水则无明显痕迹,但二者放电过程会产生明显的冲击波,多次放电后易造成间隙电极松动。     

针-板空气间隙流注放电起始过程的三维PIC/MCC仿真研究

流注放电作为自然界中闪电传播的预电离机制、高压输变线路间长空间间隙放电的重要初始阶段,在工业领域存在诸多潜在应用,近年来引起人们越来越多的关注.流注放电具有典型的多尺度、非线性的放电特征,实验观测中多呈现出分叉等不规则结构.为了研究其微观结构特性和行为特征,本文采用三维粒子仿真模型(PIC/MCC),着重研究了流注从针型正电极的起始和发展过程.模型采用了可变自适应网格、可变粒子权重以及并行计算等技术,有效地降低了三维粒子仿真的计算时间.通过调节针型电极上的施加电压幅值、改变气体组分及调整电极形状尺寸等,研究了放电参数变化对流注放电的分叉结构、半径等行为的影响.模拟结果表明:随着电压的升高,流注的半径及分叉数目增加;对比不同气体组分(纯氧以及不同比例氮氧混合气体),发现其对流注的分叉数目影响较为显著;针型电极结构直接影响了流注的起始时间和形貌.     

间隙长度对气体火花开关静态性能的影响

针对快放电直线脉冲变压器驱动源初级储能开关,调节开关气压,进行相同自击穿电压下不同间隙长度的开关自击穿实验。通过监测自击穿电压分布规律变化,研究开关间隙长度对开关自击穿特性的影响。结果表明,当开关间隙长度较大时,电极表面粗糙度较小,表明电极烧蚀程度较低。开关间隙长度为6 mm时,开关自击穿电压分散性达到最小,自击穿电压分布符合高斯函数,间隙长度大于6 mm时自击穿电压分布符合极限函数。适当增加开关间隙长度使自击穿电压分布失去对称性,有利于开关在低欠压比下获得更好的静态性能。针对电极结构,选择开关间隙长度为6~9 mm时能够获得最佳的静态性能。初步分析,引起开关自击穿电压分布发生改变的原因是电场强度的改变对阴极电子发射产生了影响。     

Measurement and simulation of partial discharge in oil-paper insulation under the combined AC–DC voltage

Depending on unique operation characteristics for voltage applied on valve side winding of the converter transformers, it is extraordinarily significant to study the partial discharge (PD) behavior with oil-paper insulation under combined AC–DC voltage. Therefore, this paper investigated PD inception characteristics by pulse current methods with needle-plate electrode system under combined AC–DC voltage. Furthermore, 3D electric field distributions versus combined AC–DC voltage in different ratios were calculated by Finite Element Analysis (FEA). An experimental conclusion was drew that AC partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV) in pure oil would decrease linearly with the DC component increasing but the inception voltage with oil-paper insulation appeared to be independent of DC voltage and dependent of AC voltage. And 3D electric field distribution deduced from simulation provided a supplementary proof on the experimental results. Moreover, high speed photography was used to capture emitted light produced by discharge, estimate streamer velocity (1.8 km/s) and record streamer initiation and propagation process in oil gap. Previous studies have shown that the prebreakdown phenomena involving the generation and propagation of vapor channels through the oil could be divided into a three-stage process.     

Theory of positive corona in SF6 due to a voltageimpulse

A theoretical examination is made of the mechanism of corona formation for a positive point-plane gap in SF₆ at 100 kPa. The impulse voltage applied has a rise time of 15 ns and peak value of 200 kV. Seed electrons are released 1 ns after the start of the voltage rise. For a 0.5-cm diameter positive sphere located 6.5 cm from a negative plane, the calculated circuit current initially consists of subnanosecond corona onset pulses, and then the current steadily rises to a maximum, as the voltage reaches a maximum, followed by a rapid fall in current. During the current rise a streamer moves out into the gap along a 100-μm channel, with the electric field in the streamer trail E>E*, where E* is the critical field where ionization equals attachment. The light output during the discharge is predicted to be a maximum at the anode with only a minor pulse of light at the streamer head, making it hard to detect. After the current maximum, recombination rapidly reduces the numbers of positive ions, negative ions, and electrons, but the net charge density remains constant and thus so does the electric field. The electric field is E~E* in the streamer trail, but has a sharp maximum, E≫E* at the head of the streamer trail. The origin of mid-gap precursors, observed when the streamer channel reilluminates after some 100 ns, is attributed to this field maximum in the remnant electric field. The evolution of positive ions, negative ions, and electrons is described by one-dimensional continuity equations, with the space-charge electric fields determined by the disk method. The effects of ionization, attachment, recombination, electron diffusion, and photoionization are all included. New numerical methods allow resolution of the streamer head and the anode fall region to be obtained with a 1-μm mesh, while following the streamer propagation for ~2 cm     

Local electron mean energy profile of positive primary streamer discharge with pin-plate electrodes in oxygen nitrogen mixtures

Local electron mean energy (LEME) has a direct effect on the rates of collisional ionization of molecules and atoms by electrons. Electron-impact ionization plays an important role and is the main process for the production of charged particles in a primary streamer discharge. Detailed research on the LEME profile in a primary streamer discharge is extremely important for a comprehensive understanding of the local physical mechanism of a streamer. In this study, the LEME profile of the primary streamer discharge in oxygen-nitrogen mixtures with a pin-plate gap of 0.5 cm under an impulse voltage is investigated using a fluid model. The fluid model includes the electron mean energy density equation, as well as continuity equations for electrons and ions and Poisson’s electric field equation. The study finds that, except in the initial stage of the primary streamer, the LEME in the primary streamer tip tends to increase as the oxygen-nitrogen mole ratio increases and the pressure decreases. When the primary streamer bridges the gap, the LEME in the primary streamer channel is smaller than the first ionization energies of oxygen and nitrogen. The LEME in the primary streamer channel then decreases as the oxygen-nitrogen mole ratio increases and the pressure increases. The LEME in the primary streamer tip is primarily dependent on the reduced electric field with mole ratios of oxygen-nitrogen given in the oxygen-nitrogen mixtures.     

Full multi grid method for electric field computation in point-to-plane streamer discharge in air at atmospheric pressure

Streamers dynamics are characterized by the fast propagation of ionized shock waves at the nanosecond scale under very sharp space charge variations. The streamer dynamics modelling needs the solution of charged particle transport equations coupled to the elliptic Poisson’s equation. The latter has to be solved at each time step of the streamers evolution in order to follow the propagation of the resulting space charge electric field. In the present paper, a full multi grid (FMG) and a multi grid (MG) methods have been adapted to solve Poisson’s equation for streamer discharge simulations between asymmetric electrodes. The validity of the FMG method for the computation of the potential field is first shown by performing direct comparisons with analytic solution of the Laplacian potential in the case of a point-to-plane geometry. The efficiency of the method is also compared with the classical successive over relaxation method (SOR) and MUltifrontal massively parallel solver (MUMPS). MG method is then applied in the case of the simulation of positive streamer propagation and its efficiency is evaluated from comparisons to SOR and MUMPS methods in the chosen point-to-plane configuration. Very good agreements are obtained between the three methods for all electro-hydrodynamics characteristics of the streamer during its propagation in the inter-electrode gap. However in the case of MG method, the computational time to solve the Poisson’s equation is at least 2 times faster in our simulation conditions.     

Experimental observation of negative differential characteristic of corona discharge in ultraviolet spectrum

Corona discharge is a self-sustained discharge which appears at electrodes with a small radius curvature in gas insulation. An almost invisible glow occurs just above the inception voltage. Corona phenomenon is mainly used in electro-technological processes to obtain space charge for electrostatic precipitation, separation of different particles, electrostatic liquid or solid coating, neutralization of space charge, etc. All of these processes rely on a strong nonhomogeneous electric field generated by a point – plate electrode system. When the critical value of the applied voltage is reached, the ionization processes near the point electrode start and give rise to the current between two electrodes. If the pointed electrode is positive, it is possible to observe an anomaly of the current – voltage (I-U) characteristic for the point-plate space. It means that while the voltage is raising the current density decreases in a narrow voltage area (2–3 kV). The anomaly was technically named as negative differential conductivity (dI/dU < 0). Unstable current can have a negative influence on electro-technological processes. The anomaly was detected for different shapes and materials of the electrode as well as for various temperatures and distances between electrodes. An oxidation layer, which appears on the metal electrode, also influences the ionization processes near the pointed electrode and causes a decrease of a current. In this paper measuring of the discharge activity in a point – plate electrode system is presented. Ionization of gas atoms and molecules in a high electric field and the following recombination of electrons and positive ions in the corona region can give rise to high-energy photons which produce new electrons in the field of discharge. Corona discharges are detected by DayCor Corona camera which can register UV emission generated by corona in a day light. The experiment was conducted with various shapes of the pointed electrode and distances between the high voltage and the grounded electrode under applied direct voltage with positive and negative polarity.     

实验研究大气压多脉冲辉光放电的模式和机理

采用稍不平行电极进行大气压He气介质阻挡多脉冲辉光放电实验,通过增强电子耦合器件相机短时曝光照片,研究大气压多脉冲辉光放电在不同时刻的放电模式.通过气隙放电电流、表面电荷计算,理论分析了表面电荷、空间电荷、外加电压与气隙电场强度的关系,研究大气压辉光放电形成多脉冲的机理.实验结果表明,放电首先在间隙稍窄的电极左端开始;在第一个脉冲电流峰值,电极右端也开始放电;第一个电流脉冲经历了Townsend放电到辉光放电的过程;电流脉冲之间的时间内,间隙一直维持着微弱的辉光放电;随后的每个电流脉冲均是辉光放电.理论分析表明,大气压辉光放电的多个电流脉冲是表面电荷、空间电荷与外加电压共同演化的结果;除放电伊始出现Townsend放电外,同一半周期内的放电电流脉冲中不会再出现Townsend放电. 关键词： 介质阻挡放电 增强电子耦合器件 大气压辉光放电 多脉冲     

实验研究大气压多脉冲辉光放电的模式和机理

采用稍不平行电极进行大气压He气介质阻挡多脉冲辉光放电实验,通过增强电子耦合器件相机短时曝光照片,研究大气压多脉冲辉光放电在不同时刻的放电模式.通过气隙放电电流、表面电荷计算,理论分析了表面电荷、空间电荷、外加电压与气隙电场强度的关系,研究大气压辉光放电形成多脉冲的机理.实验结果表明,放电首先在间隙稍窄的电极左端开始;在第一个脉冲电流峰值,电极右端也开始放电;第一个电流脉冲经历了Townsend放电到辉光放电的过程;电流脉冲之间的时间内,间隙一直维持着微弱的辉光放电;随后的每个电流脉冲均是辉光放电.理论分析表明,大气压辉光放电的多个电流脉冲是表面电荷、空间电荷与外加电压共同演化的结果;除放电伊始出现Townsend放电外,同一半周期内的放电电流脉冲中不会再出现Townsend放电.     

Computer-generated images of streamer propagation in nitrogen

We present the computer-generated images of streamer propagation in an overvolted parallel plate gap at atmospheric pressure. Two-dimensional colored images of cross sections of streamers and electric field are presented. The results show the filamentary nature of the streamers and the strong field distortions caused by the space charge     

脉冲电晕放电流光发展和OH自由基二维分布的发射光谱研究

流光在OH自由基的生成过程中起到重要作用。为了研究流光与OH自由基之间的关系,利用ICCD拍摄了线板式脉冲电晕放电反应器内流光的形成和发展过程,着重研究了在反应器几何结构固定的情况下,输入峰值电压对流光发展速度和流光在阴极板覆盖范围的影响。实验表明在反应器不击穿的情况下,输入峰值电压越大,越有利于流光的发展,因此生成的高能电子数量越多。此外我们还利用发射光谱法测量了脉冲电晕放电反应器内OH自由基的二维分布特性,并且与流光发展轨迹图对比。OH自由基在放电电场中的分布特性是以电极线为中心向四周扩散,浓度逐渐降低。这个结论和流光在脉冲电晕放电反应器内的发展轨迹图相吻合。