ELK 312E - High Voltage Technique (Djibouti)

Course Objectives

1) To teach why we use high voltage (HV) and to introduce HV problems and HV applications
2) To teach analytical, numerical and experimental electrostatic field computation methods and to evaluate discharge phenomena at high electric fields,
3) To introduce basic breakdown phenomena and their properties at gas, solid, and liquid dielectrics,

Course Description

Electrical Field Analysis: experimental and computational methods, electrical breakdown in gasses, Townsend’s breakdown criterion, Paschen’s law, Streamer or “Kanal” mechanisms, breakdown in non-uniform field and corona, electrical break down of dielectric liquids and solids, insulating materials,