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Transmission line/Substation HV equipments Corona Rings/grading rings application
Corona Ring – How does it Work?What is a Corona Ring? A Corona Ring is a circular conductive material, usually metal, which is attached to a terminal of high voltage equipment. The function of the Corona Ring is to distribute the electric field gradient and lower its maximum values below the corona threshold and thus preventing corona discharge. Corona Rings are used on very high voltage power transmission insulators and switchgear.
A useful secondary role of Corona Ring is to reshape the electric field distribution across a stack of insulators so that the potential drop per insulator is more even, thereby reducing the breakdown stresses on the insulator with highest voltage drop. A stack of symmetrical insulators used for EHV insulation will have far more voltage drop across the insulators at the hot end of the stack. Differences of more than 10:1 may occur in long insulator strings, with in some cases more than half the total EHV drop occurring across the first 3 or 4 insulators. A field reshaped by a corona ring can usefully reduce this imbalance – but a disproportionately large portion of the total voltage is still liable to be carried by the first few insulators. Corona discharge damages insulators and may produce breakdown products which can cause catastrophic insulation failure. If electric field at a certain point in air is strong enough, electrons will be stripped from the atoms and make the air conductive plasma instead of an insulator. An object with high voltage and a small curvature like wire, sharp points, enables a field of enough high strength, forming a conductive layer of air, which is then surrounded by normal insulating air. In this case the conductive layer can increase in size (usually in one direction) until it forms a complete conductive path to another object, and then a huge arc-shaped current flow. Thus it is very important to minimize Corona discharge.
How Corona Ring Works? Corona discharges occur when the electric field i.e. potential gradient at the surface of conductors exceeds a Critical value called Disruptive Potential Gradient. It is roughly 30 kV / cm (peak) for air, but varies with atmospheric pressure, so corona is more at high altitudes.
The electric field at a conductor is greatest where the curvature is sharpest, and therefore corona discharge occurs first at sharp points, corners and edges. The terminals on very high voltage equipment are frequently designed with large diameter rounded shapes such as balls called corona caps, to suppress corona formation. However, some parts of high voltage circuits require hardware with exposed sharp edges or corners, such as the attachment points where wires or bus bars are connected to insulators. Corona rings are installed at these points to prevent corona formation.
The corona ring is electrically connected to the high voltage conductor, encircling the points where corona would form.
Application of corona rings creates a wire-to-ring current flow Instead of wire-to-air current flow that helps to suppress corona discharge. It works by modifying the electric field intensity to reduce the worst case rate of field change on the insulator, thereby reducing peak potential across air surrounded to lower breakdown voltage to about 10 kV per inch for dry air and at mains frequencies.
Effect of Corona Tube Diameter: The more increase in the corona tube diameter, the less voltage percentage on the bottom most insulators. On the hand, increasing the corona tube diameter will increase voltage sharing for uppermost insulators.
Effect of Corona Ring Diameter: The higher the diameter of the ring, the lower the voltage percentage of the lowermost insulator. However, the decreasing rate is slow. On the other hand, higher ring diameters result in increases in voltage of uppermost units.
High voltage corona rings are suitable for the voltage form of alternating current (AC), which can distribute the high voltage evenly around the object to ensure that there is no potential difference (PD) between the various parts of the ring.
The high voltage corona ring are used in high voltage test equipment and power systems (substations, high voltage transmission line, AC voltage system, etc.) and are mainly made of aluminum alloy. Generally the corona ring needs to be polished bright to achieve more smooth and no burr surface finish to ensure better corona control effect.
Production Name:
High Voltage Aluminum Corona Rings/Corona Control Rings/Grading Rings/shielding ring
Raw Material of Corona Ring：ALMg Si 0,5 DIN 9107(EN AW-6060) F22
Grade Aluminum Alloy 3A21/6061/6063
Stainless Steel ASTM 304Copper
Material of Fasteners： ASTM 304 Stainless Steel
Surface treatment: Polishing Silvery Bright, Ra3.2
Other Surface Treatment ：Blue Color Painting/Galvanized/Coating insulating varnish Ring Tube Wall Thickness 2.0mm-10.0mm
Inner Diameter of Ring: Minimum 200mm Outer Diameter of Ring Maximum 22000mm Production Type of Ring Pipe: Bending/Pressure Die Casting
Operating Voltage: 170kV-4200kV
