Course outline

Books

This one we will

follow in the class
 Books

This one we will

follow in the class
 Books This lineman is safely
supported by
polypropylene chains
for placement on live
400kV conductor.

This one is written by a lawyer

who invented a noble technique
of dropping a human being on a
live high tension line.
Books

Another good book

Books

This one is written by

my professor and his
professor, useful for
advanced learners.
Books

Another book for

advanced learners.
 What is high voltage
 A mobile phone is operated from a 4V
battery. It may be destroyed if anyone
attempts to operate it from a 12V car
battery.
Therefore 12V is quite a high voltage for a
mobile phone.
 What is high voltage
230kV
High voltage is specially
 down
Step referred230kV
to
transformer is 230kV Step up
electrical power system.
used to reduce
transformer is
used to rise the
the voltage to Long transmission line used to
voltage to 132kV
33kV carry the power to Dhaka
or 230kV
33kV
Step down
At Kaptai we
transformer is
used to reduce 11kV
generate at 11kV
or 21kV
the voltage to
11kV
11kV
Another Step down transformer
is used to reduce the voltage 400V 230V
Domestic users get electricity at
further to 400V suitable for end 230Volt.
user.
 What is high voltage

 Below 11kV : Low voltage

 11kV – 100kV : HV (high Voltage)
 100kV – 400kV : VHV (Very high voltage)
 400kV – 800kV : EHV ( Extra high voltage)
 Above 800kV : UHV, Ultra high voltage
 NewinLoss in
Loss
Why high voltage transmission
transmission
line = Iline
2
R,
Basically it is requiredRfor
is the resistance
transmission
(2I) 2
R=4I 2
R lines to be
of the line.
able to transmit more power over the same line.
Kaptai Dhaka
2
II

Therefore we conclude that it is not

I I Equation for
wise to increase the line current tois
power
transmit more power over a line,
P= V I Cos 
keeping the voltage same.
 Loss in
Why high voltage transmission
line = I2R,
Basically it is requiredRfor
is the resistance
transmission lines to be
of the line.
able to transmit more power over the same line.
Kaptai Dhaka
I

I 2V
Therefore we see that if the transmission
Transformer Equation for
line voltage is increased it is power
capableis of
transmitting
V more power without
P= V I Cos 
increasing the power loss in the line.
I I

Generator
Trends in voltage growth
Ac voltage
Unfortunately it is
a very old data.
Students
In our country the are
highest requested
operating to
voltage isupdate
230kV. it.
We may realize our
position related to the
global trend.
Trends in voltage growth
dc voltage

Unfortunately HVDC
In ourhas
transmission country we
do not
been proven have any
to be
HVDCto
less attractive transmission
the
system so far.
power system
engineers.
Fields of applications of HV

• Power system engineering

• Research laboratories
• IndustriesInterested
• Nuclear research, particle
students
accelerators
may find
new areas
• Electrostatic of
precipitators
application
• Automobile of coils
ignition HV
• Medical applications like X-ray
machine
What we learn in
High Voltage
Engineering
• Testing of HV equipments like
power transformers, bushings,
CB, insulators, cables etc.
• Usually tests are done at a
voltage much higher than the
operating voltage.
• Generation, measurement and
control of different types of HV.
What we learn in
High Voltage
Engineering
• Failure mechanism of HV equipments
caused by HV stress.
• Breakdown mechanism of different types
of insulating materials ( solid, liquid, gas,
vacuum) under different types of voltages
(ac, dc, li, si).
• Computer simulation of HV systems so as
to (i) forecast before causing actual
breakdown (ii) Provide guideline towards
improved design.
• Provide technical assistance toward
designing HV equipments to be operated at
further higher voltages.
 Few future prospects
of HV
• For cosmopolitan cities overhead
distributionInterested
lines are not allowed any
more. HV underground
students may addcables of
compact size is the solution.
• Compact new names fix-and-forget
all-in-one to this type
GIS substations list.
are required in near
future.
• HV has some residential and industrial
applications like water treatment plant,
insect killer/repeller, exhaust air
purifier etc.
 ac High Voltage Suppose it is said that the

?
voltage is 100kV.
Then this peak value is
=100 X 103 X 2 volt

Voltage
 140kV
In
kV
In high voltage engineering, we
should always be careful about
100kV
the peak value of the ac
power frequency
voltage, because this isacthe
voltage
maximum voltage in the system
and may be responsible for
initiating breakdown or failure.
Time
In
ms

?
10 ms
 dc High Voltage100kV
Voltage
In
?
kV

100kV
dc voltage

Time
In
ms
Thanks to all