In this paper, a novel semi-interpenetrating network material PVP/p(HEMA-co-BA) was synthesized by free radical polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA), butylacrylate (BA), polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), and host-guest interaction complex which was synthesized by recognition and free radical copolymerization using cyclodextrin modified aluminium oxide nanoparticles (CD-Al₂O₃NPS) as host molecules and acrylate containing adamantane as guest molecules. The microstructure and properties of PVP/p(HEMA-co-BA) were characterized and tested. The results show that the material has self-repairing property by the interaction of host and guest materials. And the introduction of two reversible non-covalent interactions host-guest interaction and hydrogen bond gives the material excellent shape memory function. With the shape memory and self-repair capability, the material can repair by itself and recover the original property when the distance between the two sections of the crack is large. In addition, PVP/p(HEMA-co-BA) has good thermal stability and can be used at 200℃ in high temperature environment.

Aiming at the high risk factor of manual fault detection of strut insulators, this paper proposes a real-time fault diagnosis of strut insulators based on thermal imaging technology. The binarized segmentation of the infrared image of the strut insulator was taken as the feature extraction, and the grayscale median filter was introduced for preprocessing, then a Gaussian kernel support vector machine classification architecture was built. At last, the fault diagnosis of the strut insulator was realized. The results show that the diagnosis method can not only complete the fault monitoring of the strut insulator, but also improve the efficiency and accuracy.

Epoxy resin is used as the main material for insulated packaging of electronic device and motors, it is urgent to improve its thermal conductivity to meet more demanding use requirements. In this research, epoxy resin was modified by filling irregular alumina (i-Al₂O₃), and the effects of irregular i-Al₂O₃ with different volume fraction on the thermal conductivity and other properties of EP were studied. The results show that with the increase of the mass fraction of i-Al₂O₃, the viscosity of the composite mixing system gradually increases, the tensile strength increases at first and then decreases, the thermal stability and thermal conductivity gradually increase. When the volume fraction of i-Al₂O₃ is 45%, the epoxy composite material shows good the overall performance, its thermal conductivity coefficient reaches to 1.44 W/(m·K), which is 585.7% higher than that of pure epoxy resin with the thermal conductivity of 0.21 W/(m·K), at the same time, the volume resistance of the composite remains at the 10¹⁴ Ω·cm quantitative level.

When flashover and other accidents occur on the composite insulator in operation, the temperature rises steeply. Combined with the synergistic effect of electric field, the silicone rubber used for composite insulator will crack and destroy rapidly. In this paper, molecular model of silicone rubber was established, and then the mechanism and characteristics of electrothermal cracking of silicone rubber under steep temperature rise were studied based on the reactive force field simulation, in order to compensate for some limitations of macroscopic tests. The results show that in the flashover development stage, temperature and electric field have different mechanisms of action on the cracking of silicone rubber, temperature plays a dominant role, and electric field decreases the cracking temperature and accelerates the deterioration of material. The cracking process is triggered by the breakage of Si-C bonds, with CH₄, H₂, C₂H₄, C₂H₂, and H₂O as the main products at different stages. The number of Si-CH₃ bonds decreases by about 40% with a large number of methyl groups shed from the main chain of silicone rubber. With the further destruction of the main chain structure and the formation cross-linked structure, the number ratio of Si-O-Si bond to Si-C bond and the carbon hydrogen ratio increase continuously, the maximum is 2.93 times and 1.87 times higher than that of the pre-cracking level, respectively. The diffusion of impurity gas products dominated by H₂ generates voids in the material, leads to the structural reorganization, results in the insulation failure eventually.

The existing detection and evaluation technology for composite insulator mainly relies on offline methods, which is difficult to assess the ageing degree of insulators in large-scale operation quickly and conveniently. This article proposes a rapid detection and rating method for surface ageing degree of composite insulators based on hyperspectral technology. At first, the Fourier infrared spectral absorption peaks of Si-O-Si and Si-CH₃ between the umbrella skirt and the substrate of aged composite insulator were compared, and then the ageing degree of insulator was rated. At last, the aging degree of insulator was classificated combining hyperspectral data with SVM algorithm models. The results show that the accuracy of the three classifications including slight, moderate, and severe is 71.8%, while the accuracy of the two classifications including sligh and severe is 97.3%. By using intensity threshold segmentation method, it is possible to remove contaminated areas from composite insulator images, and extract ageing areas.

Under the effect of high temperature, the oil-immersed paper in operating transformer ages gradually, and its resistivity changes with ageing. To get a more complete understanding of the various factors except water that affect the resistivity of oil-immersed paper during the ageing process, at first, we conducted accelerated thermal ageing on the paperboards in vaccum to prepare samples with different degrees of polymerization (DP). Then the water content in the samples was controlled strictly, and their resistivity was measured in vacuum to explore the influence of DP on their resistivity. After that, the paperboards with different DP were immersed in mineral oil with different resistivity to explore the influence of the resistivity of oil on that of oil-immersed paperboard. Finally, the oil-immersed paperboards were accelerated aged, and the change of their resistivity after ageing was observed. The test results show that the resistivity of paperboard slightly increases after ageing, and the increasing trend is partially offset after inmmersing in oil, but there is no significant effect law of oil with different resistivity on resistivity of oil-immersed paperboard. When the water content is simmilar, the resistivity of oil-immersed paperboard decreases significantly with the increase of ageing products. It is concluded the decrease in resistivity of oil-immersed paperboard during ageing is caused by the gereration of polar substances such as water, acid, furfural, and so on. There is quantitative relationship between DP and the resistivity of oil-immersed paperboard.

During the operation of DC cable, the polarity reversal of voltage increases the space charge accumulated in the insulation, and it may damage the insulation . At the same time, the ionic charge generated by the dissociation of impurities such as cross-linking by-products introduced in the actual production process of insulating materials will aggravate the charge accumulation. Therefore, the traditional bipolar carrier transport model was improved in this paper. Considering the influence of impurity charged ions, the distribution of space charge in XLPE during the polarity reversal of voltage were simulated by using the improved transport model, and the influence mechanism of polarity reversal time and electric field intensity on charge distribution was studied. The results show that, on the basis of satisfying the mirror image distribution of space charge before and after the polarity reversal of voltage, the introduction of ionic charge increases the amount of heteropolar charge accumulated near the two electrodes in the steady state. Under the same polarity reversal time and different electric field intensity, the charge distribution law is basically the same, the higher the field strength, the more charge accumulates everywhere.

The interface charge characteristics of oil-paper insulation under DC voltage is a huge challenge in the design of the insulation structure of converter transformers. The traditional resistance-capacitance (RC) model only considers the interface polarization charges due to the different dielectric constants and electrical conductivity of oil and paper materials, ignoring other forms of charges and their effects on the space electric field. In this paper, based on Kerr electro-optic effect, a non-contact, real-time measurement platform for space electric field characteristics in oil of oil-paper insulation was built. Aimed at the composite insulation structure consist of transformer oil-electrical insulation paper and transformer oil-transformer paperboard, the space electric field characteristics in the oil under DC voltage with different polarity and different amlitude were obtained. The difference between the total interface charge density and the polarization charge density calculated by the RC model was analyzed. The results show that when the electric field intensity in the oil is low, the total interface charge is dominated by polarization charges. With the increase of the electri field intensity in the oil, the difference between the total interface charge density and the polarization charge density calsulated by RC model increases gradually, indicat other forms of charge accumulates and its proportion in total charge increases gradually, the effect of it on the electric field increases gradually.

Aimed at the insulation deterioration of movable cables caused by the tensile force in practical use, we mainly study the effect of the different tensile degree on the insulating properties of ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) insulation based on polarization and depolarization current (PDC). A tension device was designed to measure the PDC and surface potential decay of EPDM under the tensile state, and the influence of tensile ratio on the insulating properties of EPDM was analyzed form the perspective of DC conductivity and trap energy level distribution. The reason for the change of insulating properties of EPDM under tensile state was explained on a micro level. The results show that there is a threshold value of the effect of tensile ratio. When the tensile ratio is lower than 1.4, the PDC decreases with the increase of the tensile ratio. When the tensile ratio is higher than 1.4, the PDC increases with the increase of the tensile ratio. When the tensile ratio increases from 1.0 to 1.4, the decrease of trap numbers leads to the decrease of surface potential decay rate. When the tensile ratio increases from 1.4 to 1.8, the increase of shallow trap numbers promotes the dissipation and migration process of charge, which increases the surface potential decay rate. The influence of tensile stresses on EPDM insulation can be divided into three stages: the amorphous state, elastic deformation stage, and inelastic deformation stage.

In order to study the causes of dehydration of silicone oil for high voltage cable terminal in closed environment, and investigate its characterization parameters after deterioration, we built an experimental platform with closed environment for thermal ageing and electrical ageing, and tested the physical, chemical, and electrical properties of silicone oil under different ageing states. The results show that both thermal ageing and electrical ageing can cause the dehydration of silicone oil. The thermal ageing at 90℃ and low energy partial discharge have less effect on the deterioration of the physical, chemical, and electrical properties of silicone oil, while the intermittent spark discharge and continuous arc discharge have great effect on that. The breakdown voltage, dielectric loss factor, and volume resistivity have larger correlation with the water content, so that they can effectively represent the deterioration degree of silicon oil.