High Voltage Laboratory
BME Building V1, H-1111 Budapest, Egry József utca 18.
Research keywords:
· high voltage
· electrostatics
· lightning protection
· electrospinning
· dynamic line rating
· insulation diagnostics
· live line maintenance
· induced voltages
· electrostatic precipitators
Horizon Europe keywords:
· Advanced materials
· Circular economy
· Clean and healthy air, water and soil
· Clean, sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply
· Energy efficient buildings
· Health technologies, new tools and solutions
· Pharmaceutical technologies
· Renewable energy
· European Green Deal
· Nuclear energy
Equipment
The High Voltage Laboratory has a 24.16 m x 16.26 m sized area with 386 m2 effective interior space and a height of 16.45 m. The craned hall is designed regarding the required flash-over and breakdown distances to ensure the safe operation of the highest voltage equipment in the laboratory. The most important equipment in application in the High Voltage Laboratory of the Group of High Voltage Technology and Equipment are transformers (up to 600 kV), impulse generators (up to 800 kV peak), high current transformers (5000 A up to 50 V), and training lines for practicing and educating various LLM methods. The Laboratory is equipped with further voltage sources, installations for electromagnetic compatibility measurements, different equipment for experiments with insulation technology, lightning protection, aging chambers, and measuring devices for presentations, measurements, and investigations.
Potential purposes of experimentation
Diagnostics of the insulation of high voltage equipment. Breakdown tests. Artificial aging tests of equipment and materials. Investigation of electrical power equipment failures. Testing the insulation system of electric vehicle applications. Testing of power line equipment, conductors, composite insulators, sensors etc.
Accreditation
The Laboratory is accredited for various tests on LLM equipment, breakdown test of solid insulating materials and electromagnetic exposure. https://nah.gov.hu/admin/staticmedia/Reszletezo_okiratok/RO3-230112-1-1833-2018-F3-HJ-454358751-a.pdf
Services for external users
- Research availability
- Commercial availability (industrial applications)
- Training availability
Relevant publications
- Mate, Szirtes; Richárd, Cselkó; István, Berta: Developing a Filtering Algorithm for Partial Discharge Location Approximation Using the Emitted Electromagnetic Signals of Corona Discharges
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS 57: 1 pp. 932-940. , 9 p. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2020.3038627 - Richárd, Cselkó; Dávid, Szabó; György, Kálecz; Bálint, Németh: Aging and failure data supporting network usage tariff calculation, In: IEEE, , (szerk.) 2022 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC)
Piscataway (NJ), Amerikai Egyesült Államok : IEEE (2022) pp. 120-123. , 4 p. https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC51169.2022.9833184 - Richárd, Cselkó; Dániel, Balogh; György, Kálecz; Bálint, Németh; Bálint, Hartmann: Condition Management of Low-Voltage Distribution Cables, In: IEEE, , (szerk.) 2022 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) Piscataway (NJ), Amerikai Egyesült Államok : IEEE (2022) pp. 128-131. , 4 p.
https://doi.org/10.1109/EIC51169.2022.9833192 - Richárd, Cselkó; Mate, Szirtes; Gusztáv, Csépes: Speciality and Applicability of Advanced Response Methods in Contrast to the Traditional Dielectric Measurements for Condition Assessment of Power Transformers LECTURE NOTES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 598 pp. 1003-1014. , 12 p. (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31676-1_94 - László, Szekely; László, Gyergyadesz; Richárd, Cselkó; Gábor, Göcsei; Bálint, Németh: Practical experience with induced voltages and currents in double-circuit transmission lines, In: IEEE - IEEE (szerk.) 2022 8th International Youth Conference on Energy (IYCE), Piscataway (NJ), Amerikai Egyesült Államok : IEEE (2022) Paper: 9857529 , 4 p.
https://doi.org/10.1109/IYCE54153.2022.9857529 - Mark, Lashbrook; Attila, Gyore; Russell, Martin; Richárd, Cselkó; Bálint, Németh: Design Considerations for the Use of Ester-based Dielectric Liquids in Transmission Equipment, In: Zhongdong, Wang (szerk.) 19th IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids (ICDL), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2017) pp. 1-6. , 6 p.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL.2017.8124734 - Levente, Rácz; David, Szabo; Gábor, Göcsei; Bálint, Németh: Distributed Thermal Monitoring of High-Voltage Power Lines, SENSORS 23 : 5 Paper: 2400 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052400 - Eduardo, Ramirez-Bettoni; Bálint, Németh: AC Induction Conductive Suit- A New Way of Protecting Linemen in the Vicitity of Energized Parts IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS pp. 1-10. , 10 p. (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2023.3272305 - Levente, Rácz; Bálint, Németh; Gábor, Göcsei; Zarchev, Dimitar; Mladenov, Valeri: Performance Analysis of a Dynamic Line Rating System Based on Project Experiences ENERGIES 15 : 3 Paper: 1003 , 11 p. (2022)
https://doi.org/10.3390/en15031003 - György, Kálecz; Zoltán, Tóth; István, Kiss; Bálint, Németh: Theory behind the Zone Concept for External Lightning Protection of Photovoltaic Power Plants, ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS RESEARCH 209 Paper: 108025 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2022.108025 - István, Kiss; László, Szekely; Richárd, Cselkó: Examination of voltage-current characteristics of corona discharge in an electrostatic precipitator in case of significant dust space charge, In: 2021 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP), (2021) pp. 303-306. , 4 p.
https://doi.org/10.1109%2FCEIDP50766.2021.9705458 - István, Kiss; Zoltan Adam, Tamus; Tamás, Iváncsy; Bálint, Németh; György, Ujfalussy; István, Berta: Dielectric measurements for the examination of electrostatic charging of powders, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONFERENCE SERIES 1322 : 1 Paper: 012035 , 5 p. (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1322/1/012035 - Ramy S.A., Afia; Mustafa, Ehtasham; Zoltan Adam, Tamus: Aging Assessment of XLPE/CSPE LV Nuclear Power Cables Under Simultaneous Radiation–Mechanical Stresses ENERGY REPORTS 8 pp. 1028-1037. , 10 p. (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2021.11.113
Achievements
Accredited laboratory according to ISO/IEC 17025 series since 2013.
Participated in the leading EU FP7 and Horizon projects concerning the advanced operation of high voltage grids (Best Paths, Flexitranstore, Interrface, Farcross).
A significant contribution to nuclear safety through the research on the reliability of low-voltage control and signal cables.
Creation and experimental validation of transformer diagnostic methods and expert systems, including recovery voltage meter and dissolved gas analysis.
Creation of novel technologies in live line maintenance while supporting utilities in their LLM activities on the theoretical level and education.
Establishment of dynamic line rating methods, systems integration, and sensor development.
Organization of the most important conferences of the research field: IOP Electrostatics, International Conference on Live Line Maintenance, IEEE International Conference on Dielectrics, and the International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering.
Contributing to and/or leading international working bodies within the IEC, CIGRÉ, and CIRED.