Space Charge Transport Characteristic Considering the Non-Uniform Electric Effect of Ion Mobility

Abstract

Oil-paper insulation is the main insulating medium of converter transformers. Space charge can result in the distortion of electric field in oil-paper insulation, hence it's necessary to analyze the space charge transport characteristic and its influence on the oil-paper insulation. In the paper, the space charge transport characteristic considering the electric field is investigated, and an upstream finite element method is presented to calculate the space charge distribution in oil insulation of converter transformer considering the influence of injection barrier, ion mobility, trapped coefficient and carrier recombination coefficient. Finally, the insulation state of tortuous oil-path is evaluated. Experiments were conducted to analyze the relationship between ion mobility and electric field intensity, the results indicate that the influence of space charge on the electric field intensity in the tortuous oil-path can not be ignored for the design of converter transformer. INDEX TERMS Electric field, ion mobility, space charge, converter transformer, upstream finite element.