Pulsed high-voltage dielectric properties of ethylene glycol/water mixtures

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Measurements of the (complex) dielectric constant, intrinsic time constant, and electrical breakdown strength of highly purified ethylene glycol/water mixtures as functions of temperature and mixture ratio are presented. Over the frequency range from 0.5 to 108 MHz, the dielectric constant is found to be well represented by a simple Debye model. When cooled to near their freezing points, these mixtures have dielectric constants of the same order as pure water (∼80) but with intrinsic time constants at least an order of magnitude greater than water. The mixtures are found to support fields greater than 15 MV/m for periods exceeding a millisecond. The observed high-voltage decay is nonsimple due to the phenomenon of charge injection. The ability to sustain high fields for millisecond time scales suggests the use of such mixtures as the dielectric in the pulse forming lines of large-pulse power machines.

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