IMPACT ESTIMATION OF SMOG ON CERAMIC & POLYMER INSULATOR BY DEVELOPING ARTIFICIAL CHAMBER

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.