Electrical conduction and dielectric loss characteristics in natural ester dielectric fluid
1 Department of Physics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria
* Corresponding author: aaabdelmalik@gmail.com
* Corresponding author: aaabdelmalik@gmail.com
Abstract
Alkyl ester derivatives of palm kernel oil have been prepared for use as bio-dielectrics in oil filled High Voltage (HV) electric equipment. Electrical conduction and loss characteristics of the ester derivatives were studied to understand the behaviour of the material under applied electric field. Frequency response analyzer was used to study electrical conduction within the fluids since dielectric loss occurring at low frequencies under AC condition is dominated by mobile charge carriers. This is particularly important since power dissipation at power frequency, 50 Hz, may lead to dielectric heating. The dielectric response analyses of the samples within the range 10-3 - 104 Hz showed a constant real relative permittivity at high frequency region. When the frequency dropped below 101 Hz, interfacial polarization was observed at the electrode-liquid interface and this resulted in a significant dielectric increment in the real part of the relative permittivity at low frequencies with a negative slope greater than 1 and a frequency independent conductance (εʹ slope = -1). This is an indication of Maxwell-Wagner interfacial effect where electric double layer (EDL) is formed. The real part acquired a slope of about -1 around frequency of 10-3 Hz. This suggests that the establishment of the EDL may be tending towards steady state. This change in the low frequency dispersion could be due to the ionic species undergoing interfacial electrochemical processes, or ions of lower mobility may have contributed to the EDL formation within the frequency region. This may have limited the effect of the strongly divergent processes at the interface.
Keywords
charge transport
dielectric loss
electric double layer
dielectric liquid
frequency dispersion
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How to Cite
A, A. A. (2014). Electrical conduction and dielectric loss characteristics in natural ester dielectric fluid. Nigerian Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, 5(1), 60-67.
A. A. A, "Electrical conduction and dielectric loss characteristics in natural ester dielectric fluid," Nigerian Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 60-67, December 2014.
