Abstract:
This Final Year Project aims to check what impact SMOG has on Polymer and ceramic
Insulator thus leading to contamination and Flashover issues and causing power
failures. In past, experimental chambers have been designed to implicate aging tests
on Polymer and ceramic. The Artificial chamber we have created will have 5 different
types of artificial environments such as Raining, Temperature (Hot and Cold), Fog,
SMOG, and Dust.
The first step will be developing the artificial chamber and then calibrating 5 different
environmental settings, Once done Testing will begin on Polymer. This part consists
oftaking readings for all of the different environments e.g., Rain, Temperature (Hot
and Cold), Dust, SMOG, and Fog by using environmental data for the past 5 years of
Pakistan for better and more accurate results. The Testing will let us know the different
effects ofthe environment on Polymer and Ceramic insulators. After testing we will
compare both Polymer and Ceramic insulators and check which insulator
impacted by the environmental stress more thus letting us know which insulator is best
suited for the outdoor environments.
