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 Prof. Fei YOU Nanjing Tech University, China |
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| Title: Long Distance Air Gap Flashovers of High-Voltage Transmission Lines Induced by Wildfires | |
| Abstract: Wildfires have incurred flashovers between HVTLs (High-Voltage Transmission Lines) or from HVTLs to ground or even outages of grid at times. The detailed behaviors, properties and key factors of flashovers and fire environments surrounding the right-of-ways (corridors) that usually induce flashovers of HVTLs have been described and recognized, among which altered conditions of HVTLs (metallographic phase, surface morphology, sagging, molten droplets) by wildfires were addressed, and effects of vegetation fuel (amount, type, moisture content and location), topography (steepness), climatic conditions (temperature, humidity, wind speed) on them were investigated. Typical accidents were presented and analyzed to figure out above processes and parameters. Finally, based on above facts and analyses, potential mechanisms of flashovers derived from wildfires to cover super-long distance air gap in dozens of meters were postulated and proposed. | |
| Biography: Dr. Fei YOU, now is a professor of Safety Science and Engineering & Deputy Director of Institute of Fire Science and Engineering at Nanjing Tech University, Research Scholar of University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering). Now Members of The Combustion Institute, Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology and Chinese Chemical Society, etc.. He got his Engineering Ph.D. in Fire Safety Science and Engineering at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He is project leaders of at least 40 funding items including National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC). He has been undergoing interdisciplinary researches for almost 21 years in fields include “Evolution Properties and Mechanisms of Special Fires and combustion processes in the key segments of smart grid (power generation by wind turbine, coal and WEEE, high-voltage power transmission)”, “Preparation, characterization and application of multi-functional hybrid and composite materials in electrical power industry and their fire safety issues”. More than 100 papers have been published regarding above interdisciplinary aspects. | |
