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Regulation: R23 Branch: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Semester: 3-2

High Voltage Engineering

Verified vs. official syllabus Checked 2026-07-01

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Unit-wise syllabus

UNIT 01

Breakdown in Gaseous and Vacuum

Insulating materials: types, properties and applications; gases as insulating media; Collision and ionization processes; Townsend's criteria of breakdown in gases and limitations; streamer theory; time lag; Paschen's law and curve; Penning effect; breakdown mechanisms in vacuum

UNIT 02

Breakdown in Liquids and Solids

Liquids as insulators: pure and commercial liquids; Breakdown in pure and commercial liquids and mechanisms; Solid breakdown: intrinsic and electromechanical breakdown; Thermal breakdown; breakdown of composite solid dielectrics

UNIT 03

Generation of High DC and AC Voltages

Voltage doubler circuit; Voltage multiplier circuit; Van de Graaff generator; Cascaded transformers; Resonant transformers and Tesla coil

UNIT 04

Generation of Impulse Voltages and Currents

Specifications of an impulse wave; analysis of RLC circuits; Marx circuit; Impulse current generation: definitions and circuits for producing impulse current waves; Wave shape control; tripping and control of impulse generators

UNIT 05

Measurement of High Voltages and Currents

Measurement of high DC and AC voltages: resistance potential divider, generating voltmeter; Capacitor voltage transformer (CVT), electrostatic voltmeters, sphere gaps; Measurement of impulse voltages: potential dividers with CRO; Measurement of impulse currents: Hall generator and Rogowski coils