International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 7, No 3: June 2017

Characteristics of Mineral Oil-based Nanofluids for Power Transformer Application

I. H. Zakaria (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
M. H. Ahmad (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
Y. Z. Arief (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
N. A. Awang (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
N .A. Ahmad (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2017

Abstract

Trends in the field of nanomaterial-based transformer oil show most of the conducted works have focused only on the transformer oil-based nanofluids but limited studies on the stability of transformer oil-based nanofluids. Since mineral oil-based nanofluids still can produce the sedimentation, thus the cold-atmospheric pressure plasma method is proposed to functionally modify the Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) nanofiller in order to enhance the electrical properties of the mineral oil-based nanofluids. The AC breakdown strength oil samples before and after modification were measured. It was found that the plasma treated nanofluids have higher AC breakdown voltage compared to pure oil and untreated nanofluids. Also, Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy has been used in this study to analyse the physical changes of oil samples. It is envisaged that the added silica nanofiller has significant effect on electrical properties of the transformer oil-based nanofluids which would enable to the development of an improved class of liquid dielectric for the application of power transformer.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJECE

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of ...