Effect of measurement temperature on interfacial charge freed from deep traps located at the interface of oil-paper insulation

Abstract

Accumulation of interfacial charge creates local field distortion during insulation response measurement. Furthermore, such localized field enhancement affects the interaction between polar compounds present within oil-paper insulation and in turn affects its aging process. By getting sufficient trap energy (normally by thermal oscillation) these trapped charges dislocate from their locations and contribute in depolarization current. These interfacial charges include charges dislocated from shallow and deep sites at interfacial region. The charge residing at deep locations takes more time to dislodge themselves compared to charge residing at shallow sites. As dipole present in cellulose has large relaxation time, there might be some relation between deep charge and paper insulation sensitive parameters. In this work, effects of temperature on deep traps are analyzed. Results reported in this paper shows that magnitude of charge freed from deep locations maintains a correlation with measurement temperature and paper conductivity.