Insulating Materials for Future Power Systems: Performance Analysis, Defect Detection and Condition Assessment: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dielectric insulation; insulation aging; intelligent optimization; state evaluation; fault diagnosis
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Interests: high-voltage engineering; power transmission; partial discharge; dielectric insulation
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Interests: high-voltage engineering; power transmission; partial discharge; dielectric insulation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: high-voltage engineering; insulation aging; dielectric response analysis; state evaluation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: high-voltage engineering; partial discharge; UHV equipment; high-voltage measurement
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A wide variety of electrical materials, such as polymeric insulating materials, energy storage materials, functional ceramics, semi-conductive sensing materials, and high-conductive metallic materials, compose the complicated power transmission system. Recently, modern renewable energy systems have begun to replace traditional energy systems owing to the development of more precise and controlled power stations. In this context, insulation materials, as core components in electrical power equipment, will undergo unprecedented challenges and opportunities that may enhance operational complexity and reduce the power system’s safety and reliability.
Variations in operational conditions create a question regarding the insulation strength of countless newly developed ultra-high-voltage (UHV) assets. Consequently, there is an urgent need for credible performance analysis, defect detection, and condition assessments of insulation materials in UHV equipment.
Therefore, in this Special Issue, we call for papers which focus on the fabrication, performance analysis, deterioration mechanism, defect detection, and condition assessments of new electrical materials. We welcome researchers to contribute original research, brief research reports, and review papers for this research topic. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advanced measurement and characterization technology;
- Advanced electrical materials fabrication and their deterioration mechanisms;
- Advanced insulation defect detection and condition assessment techniques;
- Dielectric materials and relaxation phenomena;
- Operation, maintenance, and optimal designs of UHV equipment;
- Other related aspects.
Dr. Xianhao Fan
Dr. Chuangyang Li
Dr. Fangwei Liang
Dr. Jiefeng Liu
Prof. Dr. Weidong Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-voltage engineering
- insulation materials
- performance characterization and analysis
- defect detection
- condition assessment
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