Calculation of Capacitance Variation in Corona Cage

Abstract

Corona cage is an important supplementary method for studying corona phenomenon, which is an indispensable for designing transmission lines. In this paper, the bundle conductors are chosen as research objects and the charge simulation method (CSM) is applied to build calculation model, using line electric charges to simulate bundle conductors, walls of corona cage and space charges. The method of tight coupling of electric field and potential is first introduced in corona processing, in which the Kaptzov hypothesis is directly applied to establish equations of charge - electric field and charge - electric potential. In addition, in order to analyze the capacitance value variation of corona cage when corona onset occurs, the emission, migration and composite process of space charges is simulated. Finally, 4, 8, 12 conductors in corona cage under different meteorological conditions are modeled, and the research results are analyzed. This research can also be applied to model corona cage and high voltage transmission lines at different voltage levels and different bundles under different meteorological conditions.