Study of very fast transient overvoltages in air‐cored pulsed transformers

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study very fast transient overvoltages (VFTOs) in the secondary winding of air‐cored Tesla transformers and also study the resulting electric field stresses.

Design/methodology/approach

An exhaustive model based on Multi‐conductor Transmission Lines (MTLs) theory has been used. The governing telegraphist's equations have been solved by Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method.

Findings

The results demonstrated that there are some overvoltages at the end and middle turns that should be considered in insulation design. The magnitudes of these overvoltages are several times more than the steady state value of the corresponding turn which cause very high electric field stresses.

Originality/value

The paper describes results obtained from an original and innovative implementation of FDTD method in transmission line modelling and is applied properly to air‐cored pulse transformers.

Citation

Agheb, E., Hashemi, E., Mousavi, S.A. and Hoidalen, H.K. (2012), "Study of very fast transient overvoltages in air‐cored pulsed transformers", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 658-669. https://doi.org/10.1108/03321641211200635