Abstract
In this paper, we report the high-temperature and high-voltage (HV) insulation characteristics of the polypropylene (PP) blend with highly packed elastomeric domains that showed excellent mechanical toughness in our previous study to find its suitability as insulation material for power cable applications. The main focus lies on tensile properties with thermal aging, thermomechanical behavior corresponding to the thermal transition, high-temperature volume resistivity and DC dielectric strength, and space charge accumulation behavior of the PP blend in comparison to the crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE). Our PP blend having low elastic modulus of approximately 266.9 MPa exhibited high tensile strength and elongation at break, and high-temperature stability as well. Using this PP blend, not only good HV insulating performances in volume resistivity and DC breakdown strength (BDS) were obtained similar to XLPE, but also adequate values were obtained at high temperature, even at 110 °C, which was not possible with XLPE. However, there was space charge accumulation and electric field distortion in the PP blend like XLPE, which needs to be suppressed. Therefore, our PP blend is expected to have the potential to replace existing XLPE as insulation materials for future HV power cables.
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