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EE 360 — High Voltage Engineering

BSc BSc Electrical/Electronic Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Properties of high voltage insulation and breakdown phenomena in materials and air with different types of electrodes. Transients: lightning phenomena, surges in transmission lines due to lightning and switching. Protection of equipment/appliances against such transients. Transformers: Harmonica, unbalanced loading, 3-winding HV transformers, impulse testing. High voltage test equipment including impulse generators, a.c. and d.c. HV test sets and portable insulation test sets used in industries for oil and other insulation testing. Destructive and non-destructive testing including partial discharge techniques. Applications of HV techniques in bio-medical engineering.

Credits
3
Level
Year Three

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Course details from Details of Syllabus - Department of Electrical Engineering, KNUST.