Effect of Insulating Oil on Space Charge Characteristics of Oil-impregnated Paper Under DC Voltage

Abstract

At present, the oil-paper insulation structure is mainly composed of traditional mineral oil and cellulose insulation paper. The hots pot of future research is to select better insulation oil to improve the overall insulation life of the system. Compared with traditional mineral insulation oil, gas to liquid(GTL) oil made from base oil refined by natural gas liquefaction technology by Fischer-Tropsch(FT) method are characterized by high oxidative stability and low sulfur content. In this paper, the space charge accumulation, distribution and attenuation characteristics of oil-impregnated paper composed of GTL oil and traditional mineral oil were studied. The space trap energy level and trap density distribution of two oil-impregnated papers were obtained according to isothermal decay current(IDC) method. The experimental results show that in the voltage-on stage, traditional mineral oil-impregnated paper is more prone to charge injection and the injection speed is faster. In the voltage-off stage, the traditional mineral oil-impregnated paper attenuates the charge faster, and the GTL oil-impregnated paper has more residual charge. Moreover, the trap level of GTL oil-impregnated paper is deeper than that of traditional mineral oil-impregnated paper.