Prevent Electric Breakdown in High Voltage Systems with Ansys Maxwell 

Overview

The industry is witnessing a trend toward increased electrification and power density, which, in many applications, necessitates operation at higher voltages. This requires breakdown-free design practices to prevent arcing events and assess if the system can withstand the electrical stress.

1. High voltage engineers require an accurate and rapid assessment of design performance, based on industry standards and established, proven criteria.
2. In non-traditionally high-voltage applications, the increasing operating voltage necessitates a robust design to withstand breakdown arcing events.

The Inception Voltage Evaluation feature in Ansys Maxwell offers a reliable design tool to verify the system's robustness against breakdown and arcing in air and gaseous environments. Evaluation with user-defined gas properties (i.e., to evaluate environmentally friendly SF6 replacements) is possible.

What Attendees Will Learn

• Learn the basics of streamer criteria for inception voltage evaluation
• Learn best practices for an accurate electric field simulation in Ansys Maxwell
• Explore how to visualize field line traces and compute inception voltage using real-life examples
• Discover how to automate the entire workflow by means of an application example   

Who Should Attend

• High Voltage Engineers and Electromagnetic Component Designers who need a breakdown free solution

Speaker

• Wenkai Shang
• Tiziana Bertoncelli