Partial Discharge in Capacitor Model at Low Temperature

The partial discharge plays an important role in the ageing and the rupture process of solid or mixed insulation systems. Ithas been recognized that the failure of this insulation can be joined to the presence of partial discharge often in inclusionssparkling. Liquid filled cavities can be considered as the most likely defects that can exist in capacitors. In this paper wedescribe the partial discharge evolution at low temperatures in all-PP film capacitors according to the time and the appliedvoltage. We distinguish two regimes of discharges for all the range of temperature and the low temperatures encourage thebreakdown of capacitors at weak voltage, we assign this phenomenon to the increase of the viscosity of filling liquid.