Developing eco-friendly nanostructured oil: Partial discharge and breakdown voltage characterization of transformer corn oil
S. Chandrasekar, J. Chandramohan, Gian Carlo Montanari, Periyayya Uthirakumar
Abstract
This paper focuses on characterization of a natural ester oil, based on corn, which has been nanostructured by carbon quantum dots (CQD) decorated nano fillers. Partial discharge (PD), lightning impulse (LI) and AC power frequency breakdown strength of corn oil, pure and nanostructured by CQD-treated SiO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> and TiO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> nanoparticles, are measured for different concentration of nanofillers with mass fractions of 0.01, 0.05 and 0.1. It is shown that the addition of CQD-treated SiO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> nanofillers improve considerably oil insulation performance already at very low nanoparticle concentration, which indicates promising potentiality for transformer insulation applications, from compact design to long-term performance.