Ice accumulation on transmission lines often leads to great damage to power systems.Super-hydrophobic surfaces are proposed to inhibit ice accumulation on electrical power equipment.A novel anti-icing method was prese...Ice accumulation on transmission lines often leads to great damage to power systems.Super-hydrophobic surfaces are proposed to inhibit ice accumulation on electrical power equipment.A novel anti-icing method was presented for conductors with super-hydrophobic sleeves.The super-hydrophobic sleeves were prepared by applying polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS) and nano-silica hybrid coating on the outer surface of polyethylen terephthalate(PET) sleeves.Hydrophobicity and ice adhesion strength of the super-hydrophobic surface were investigated.Ice accumulation experiments were carried out on ordinary conductors,super-hydrophobic coated conductors,PET sleeve-covered conductors,and super-hydrophobic PET sleeve-covered conductors.Ice accumulation morphology,accumulated ice weight,and the icicle length of these four types of conductors were studied and analyzed.At the end of the 3 h ice accumulation experiment,the ice weight and icicle length on the conductor with super-hydrophobic PET sleeve was only approximately one tenth and one seventh of that on the untreated conductor respectively.Furthermore,the water contact angles of super-hydrophobic coated aluminum surface and super-hydrophobic coated PET sleeve were about 163o in average.The results indicate that the super-hydrophobic coating is effective in inhibiting ice accumulation on conductors.However,the use of a super-hydrophobic PET sleeve is a significantly more effective method,comparing with the application of a super-hydrophobic coating directly on the conductor.展开更多
The choice of the UHV lines depends on surface electric field of the bundle conductors.Based on existing calculation methods,the optimized charge simulation method is used to calculate the conductors' surface elec...The choice of the UHV lines depends on surface electric field of the bundle conductors.Based on existing calculation methods,the optimized charge simulation method is used to calculate the conductors' surface electrical field of±800 kV UHVDC transmission lines in this paper.During calculation,the offset distance is set as the variance of the objective function,the position and the quantity of the simulation charges are optimized with the gold section method,and the surface electrical field is calculated when the charge is in the optimal position.The result shows that the distribution of the surface electrical field and its maximal value can be calculated accurately with this method,although less number of simulation charges is used in this proposed method and the calculation is simple.展开更多
基金Project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China（51107152）, Ftmd for Innovation Research Groups（51021005）, Key Science and Technology Project of Chongqing Eleelric Power Company （2012 Yu Electricity Science and Technoloyg 18）.
文摘Ice accumulation on transmission lines often leads to great damage to power systems.Super-hydrophobic surfaces are proposed to inhibit ice accumulation on electrical power equipment.A novel anti-icing method was presented for conductors with super-hydrophobic sleeves.The super-hydrophobic sleeves were prepared by applying polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS) and nano-silica hybrid coating on the outer surface of polyethylen terephthalate(PET) sleeves.Hydrophobicity and ice adhesion strength of the super-hydrophobic surface were investigated.Ice accumulation experiments were carried out on ordinary conductors,super-hydrophobic coated conductors,PET sleeve-covered conductors,and super-hydrophobic PET sleeve-covered conductors.Ice accumulation morphology,accumulated ice weight,and the icicle length of these four types of conductors were studied and analyzed.At the end of the 3 h ice accumulation experiment,the ice weight and icicle length on the conductor with super-hydrophobic PET sleeve was only approximately one tenth and one seventh of that on the untreated conductor respectively.Furthermore,the water contact angles of super-hydrophobic coated aluminum surface and super-hydrophobic coated PET sleeve were about 163o in average.The results indicate that the super-hydrophobic coating is effective in inhibiting ice accumulation on conductors.However,the use of a super-hydrophobic PET sleeve is a significantly more effective method,comparing with the application of a super-hydrophobic coating directly on the conductor.
基金Project Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China（90510015）.
文摘The choice of the UHV lines depends on surface electric field of the bundle conductors.Based on existing calculation methods,the optimized charge simulation method is used to calculate the conductors' surface electrical field of±800 kV UHVDC transmission lines in this paper.During calculation,the offset distance is set as the variance of the objective function,the position and the quantity of the simulation charges are optimized with the gold section method,and the surface electrical field is calculated when the charge is in the optimal position.The result shows that the distribution of the surface electrical field and its maximal value can be calculated accurately with this method,although less number of simulation charges is used in this proposed method and the calculation is simple.
