This study addresses the dielectric performance of nonpolar hydrocarbon liquids and mineral oils under negative polarity stress. Stopping length for non-breakdown streamers, breakdown voltages and velocities for various pre-breakdown streamer modes have been studied for a selection of model liquids...

A simplified model for photoionization, modeling fast streamer propagation, is combined with an existing model for slow streamers, based on electron avalanches. Transitions from fast mode to slow mode, and from slow mode to fast mode, are investigated....

A sensitive differential charge measurement technique was used to measure the conduction current from a sharp needle in a needle plane geometry in n-pentane. The current was measured at voltages up to the threshold for streamer inception in n-pentane with a positive needle polarity. The measured...

Knowledge of the conductivity and permittivity of materials used in subsea connectors is needed to predict the electric field distribution in the connectors. The synthetic ester Midel 7131, being one of several dielectric liquids used in subsea connectors, has been chosen as a relevant candidate...

The transition to fast mode streamers is explained through a model that includes a photoionization mechanism. The model assumes that photons are created in the head of the streamer, and that the photoionization cross section is dependent on the electric field through field dependent ionization...