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High Voltage Technology - Fundamentals

Lecturer (assistant)
Thomas Lübeck [L]
Andreas Jossen
Number 0000071212
Type lecture with integrated exercises
Duration 4 SWS
Term Wintersemester 2025/26
Language of instruction English
Position within curricula See TUMonline
Dates See TUMonline

Admission information

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Objectives

At the end of the module students are able to understand the principles to generate high voltages, the methods to calculate and grade electrostatic fields and the mechanisms of partial discharges and breakdown of dielectrics. Further, students are able to understand the fundamentals of the propagation of transients on transmission lines.

Description

Generation and measurement of high voltages, electrostatic fields and field stress control, electrical breakdown in gases, breakdown in solid and liquid dielectrics, flashover along interphases, partial discharges, transients on transmission line

Prerequisites

The following modules should have been passed successfully:
No special requirements

Teaching and learning methods

The applied method of teaching is to deliver lectures and to assist in solving exercises.
The following media will be applied:
- Presentations
- Script/ handout
- Exercises as download

In addition to the students’ method of learning their knowledge shall be deepened by solving exercises.

Recommended literature

The following text books are recommended:
- Kuffel, E.; Zaengl, W.S., Kuffel, J.: High Voltage Engineering: Fundamentals, Elsevier Science 2000
- Arora, R.; Mosch W.: High Voltage and Electrical Insulation Engineering, Wiley 2011

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