High Voltage Engineering

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : High Voltage Engineering

OVER VOLTAGES IN ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS
1. Natural Causes of Over Voltages - Answer (click here)
2. Lightning Phenomenon - Answer (click here)
3. Lightning Voltage Surges - Answer (click here)
4. Wilson’s Theory of Charge Separation - Answer (click here)
5. Mechanism of Lightning Stroke - Answer (click here)
6. Over Voltages Due to Switching surges - Answer (click here)
7. Switching Surge Test Voltage Characteristics - Answer (click here)
8. Over voltage Protection - Answer (click here)
9. Surge Protection of Rotating Machine - Answer (click here)
10. System Faults and Other Abnormal Conditions - Answer (click here)
11. Bewley Lattice Diagram - Answer (click here)
12. Important Short Questions and Answers: Over Voltages in Electrical
Power Systems - Answer (click here)

DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN
1. Electrical Breakdown in Gases, Solids and Liquids - Answer (click here)
2. Classical Gas Laws - Answer (click here)
3. Corona Discharges - Answer (click here)
4. Ionization and Decay Processes - Answer (click here)
5. Townsend’s Criterion - Answer (click here)
6. Paschen's Law - Answer (click here)
7. Streamer or Kanal Mechanism of Spark - Answer (click here)
8. Breakdown in Non-Uniform Fields - Answer (click here)
9. Breakdown in Liquid Dielectrics - Answer (click here)
10. Breakdown in Solid Dielectrics - Answer (click here)
11. Electromechanical Breakdown - Answer (click here)
12. Thermal Breakdown - Answer (click here)
13. Breakdown in Composite Dielectrics - Answer (click here)
14. Electric Discharge in Vacuum - Answer (click here)
15. Solved Problems: Over(High) Voltages in Electrical Power Systems -
Answer (click here)
16. Important Short Questions and Answers: Electrical breakdown is gases,
solids& Liquids - Answer (click here)

GENERATION OF HIGH VOLTAGES AND HIGH CURRENTS

1. Generation of High Voltages and High Currents - Answer (click here)
2. Half Wave Rectifier Circuit - Generation of High Voltages and Currents
- Answer (click here)
3. Cockroft Walton Voltage Multiplier Circuit - Generation of High
Voltages and Currents - Answer (click here)
4. Electrostatic Generator - Answer (click here)
5. Generation of high A.C. voltages - Answer (click here)
6. Reactive Power Compensation - Answer (click here)
7. Series Resonant Circuit - Generation of High Voltages and Currents -
Answer (click here)
8. Impulse Voltages - Answer (click here)
9. Impulse voltage generator circuits - Answer (click here)
10. Multistage impulse generator circuits - Answer (click here)
11. Tripping and Control Of Impulse Generators - Answer (click here)
12. Important Short Questions and Answers: Generation of High Voltages
and High Currents - Answer (click here)

MEASUREMENT OF HIGH VOLTAGES AND HIGH

CURRENTS
1. Measurement of High Voltage and High Currents - Answer (click here)
2. Uniform Field Spark Gaps - Measurement of High Voltage and Currents
- Answer (click here)
3. Rod Gaps - Measurement of High Voltage and Currents - Answer (click
here)
4. Electrostatic Voltmeter - Measurement of High Voltage and Currents -
Answer (click here)
5. Peak Voltmeters with Potential Dividers - Answer (click here)
6. Impulse Voltage Measurements Using Voltage Dividers - Answer (click
here)
7. CRO Forimpulse Voltage and Current Measurement - Answer (click here)
8. Resistance Potential Dividers - Digital Techniques in High Voltage
Measurement - Answer (click here)
9. Capacitance Potential Dividers - Digital Techniques in High Voltage
 Measurement - Answer (click here)
10. Klydonograph or Surge Recorder - Digital Techniques in High Voltage
Measurement - Answer (click here)
11. Important Short Questions and Answers: Measurement of High Voltage
and High Currents - Answer (click here)

HIGH VOLTAGE TESTING and INSULATION

COORDINATION
1. High Voltage Testing of Electrical Power Apparatus - Answer (click here)
2. Testing Of Overhead Line Insulators - Answer (click here)
3. Testing of Cables - Answer (click here)
4. Testing of Bushings - Answer (click here)
5. Testing of power capacitor - Answer (click here)
6. Testing of Power Transformers - Answer (click here)
7. Testing of Circuit Breakers - Answer (click here)
8. Testing Isolators - Answer (click here)
9. Surge Arresters - Answer (click here)
10. Tan Delta Measurement - Answer (click here)
11. Partial Discharge Measurements - Answer (click here)
12. The basic PD(Partial Discharge) test circuit - Answer (click here)
13. Partial Discharge(PD) currents - Answer (click here)
14. Radio Interference Due to High Voltage Insulator String - Answer (click
here)
15. International and Indian Standards DC Testing Test Voltage - Answer
(click here)
16. Insulation Coordination - Answer (click here)
17. Important Short Questions and Answers: High Voltage Testing of
Electrical Power Apparatus - Answer (click here)