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High Voltage Engineering Lab


UG lab

High Voltage Engineering Lab resides at lab No. 116B, ground floor EE building. This lab is well equipped with BDV oil test kit, Oil dissipation factor and dc resisitivity measurement kit, cascade transformer of 100 kVAC, 140 kV DC test set up, 150 kV, 1.5 kJ Impulse Voltage Generator, 30-0-30 kV Insulation Tester, DSO, Sphere Gap and Rod Gap with different geometries for high voltage measurement and investigation, Insulator test bench, Electrolytic Tank etc. Students can understand/perform the experiments to learn and investigate the performance of various insulation in different environmental conditions under HVDC, HVAC and Short duration Impulse voltages.

Course Information

Equipments
High Voltage Engineering Test Bench for flashover studies of insulator, Oil BDV Test kit, Dissipation Factor and DC resistivity meter, 150 kV impulse voltage generator, 100kV AC/140kV DC high voltage tester, 30-0-30 kV insulation tester, Electrolytic tank, Horn gap apparatus

Projects


  • Evaluated Ester Oil Characteristics,Hot Spot and Overloading Capacity Analysis with Temperature Rise Test on Ester Oil filled Power Transformers
  • Conducted Flashover probability studies over the line insulators under various contamination possessions
  • Incepient fault diagnosis of mineral oil using Fuzzy logic approach
  • Simulation based studies of nanoparticle's Influence On Dielectric Properties Of Transformer Oil Based Nanofluids
  • Finite Element Based Electric Field and Electric Potential Distribution Analysis of Insulators
  • Influence of Polarity on Breakdown Characteristics of Insulators
  • Implementation of existing 150 kV Impulse Voltage Generator as an Impulse Current Generator.

Publications


Sr. No. Publication
1 Mihir A. Bhatt, Pratik K. Mochi "Modelling and Simulation of Multi-stage Impulse Voltage Generator using MATLAB Simulink" presented in 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences organized during 16th – 18th December, 2015, Hong Kong.
2 Mihir A. Bhatt "Impulse Voltage Generation Using MATLAB/Simulink and its Integration in Undergraduate High Voltage Engineering Course" in International Journal of Scientific Research and Education, Vol. 4, Issue 2, March 2016.
3 Mihir Bhatt and Praghnesh Bhatt "Electrical Characteristics of Nanofluid based Transformer Oil: A Review" in CHARUSAT Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1, November 2017.
4 Roshan Patel and Mihir A. Bhatt "Nanoparticles Influence on Dielectric Properties of Transformer Oil based Nanofluids" presented in COMSOL Conference 2018 organized during 9th – 10th August, 2018 at Banglore.
5 Mihir A. Bhatt "Effect of Permittivity on Breakdown Characteristic of Transformer oil based Nanofluid" in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Mar-April 2018.
6 Harsh Hirpara, Mihir A. Bhatt and Chirag Parekh "Ester Oil Characteristics, Hot Spot and Overloading Capacity Analysis with Temperature Rise Test on Ester Oil filled Power Transformers" in International Journal of Technical Innovation in Modern Engineering and Science, Vol. 4, Issue 6, June 2018..