HIGH VOLTAGE

In modern times, high voltages are used for a wide variety of applications covering the power system, industry, and research laboratories. Such applications have become essential to sustain modern civilization. High voltages are applied in laboratories in nuclear research, in particle accelerators. For transmission of large bulks of power over long distances, high voltages are indispensable. The diverse condition under which a high voltage apparatus is used necessitate careful design of its insulation and the electrostatic field profiles. The principal media of insulation used are gases, vaccum, solid, and liquid, or a combination of these. Lightening is the best example of high voltage