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    What Is Corona Effect in Power System and Why It Occurs?

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    Corona effect occurs in transmission lines when the spacing between conductors is large compared to their diameter and an alternating current is applied. This subjects the air around the conductors to dielectric stress that ionizes the air once a critical disruptive voltage threshold of around 30kV is exceeded. This ionization allows the air to conduct electricity, resulting in faint glows and hissing sounds from the flow of ions along with ozone production. This phenomenon of electrical discharge for high voltages is known as corona effect and causes increased power losses if the voltage rises further.

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    What Is Corona Effect in Power System and Why It Occurs?

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    Corona effect occurs in transmission lines when the spacing between conductors is large compared to their diameter and an alternating current is applied. This subjects the air around the conductors to dielectric stress that ionizes the air once a critical disruptive voltage threshold of around 30kV is exceeded. This ionization allows the air to conduct electricity, resulting in faint glows and hissing sounds from the flow of ions along with ozone production. This phenomenon of electrical discharge for high voltages is known as corona effect and causes increased power losses if the voltage rises further.

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    Corona effect occurs in transmission lines when the spacing between conductors is large compared to their diameter and an alternating current is applied. This subjects the air around the conductors to dielectric stress that ionizes the air once a critical disruptive voltage threshold of around 30kV is exceeded. This ionization allows the air to conduct electricity, resulting in faint glows and hissing sounds from the flow of ions along with ozone production. This phenomenon of electrical discharge for high voltages is known as corona effect and causes increased power losses if the voltage rises further.

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    What Is Corona Effect in Power System and Why It Occurs?

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    Corona effect occurs in transmission lines when the spacing between conductors is large compared to their diameter and an alternating current is applied. This subjects the air around the conductors to dielectric stress that ionizes the air once a critical disruptive voltage threshold of around 30kV is exceeded. This ionization allows the air to conduct electricity, resulting in faint glows and hissing sounds from the flow of ions along with ozone production. This phenomenon of electrical discharge for high voltages is known as corona effect and causes increased power losses if the voltage rises further.

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    What is corona effect in power system and why it occurs?

    For corona effect to occur effectively, two factors here are of prime importance as mentioned 1) Alternating potential difference must be supplied across below:the line.

    2) The spacing of the conductors, must be large enough compared to the line diameter.

    Corona Effect in Transmission Line

    When an alternating current is made to flow across two conductors of the transmission line whose spacing is large compared to their diameters, then air surrounding the conductors (composed of ions) is subjected to dielectric stress. At low values of supply end voltage, nothing really occurs as the stress is too less to ionize the air outside. But when the potential difference is made to increase beyond some threshold value of around 30 kV known as the critical disruptive voltage, then the field strength increases and then the air surrounding it experiences stress high enough to be dissociated into ions making the atmosphere conducting. This results in electric discharge around the conductors due to the flow of these ions, giving rise to a faint luminescent glow, along with the hissing sound accompanied by the liberation of ozone, which is readily identified due to its characteristic odor. This phenomena of electrical discharge occurring in transmission line for high values of voltage is known as the corona effect in power system . If the voltage across the lines is still increased the glow becomes more and more intense along with hissing noise, inducing very high power loss into the system which must be accounted for.

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