This edited article is based on a contribution by Giovanni Pirovano of Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE) in Milan at the 2015 INMR WORLD C0NGRESS. It discussed activities carried out and presented experimental results obtained during the course of research on pollution severity of line and ...

Pollution flashovers of insulator strings have historically been one of the main causes of line outages under normal operating conditions. Indeed, years ago this was a relatively common occurrence across many countries suffering from heavy industrial pollution. The situation began to improve over the ...

Failure of a suspension or tension insulator is clearly something that every utility or insulator manufacturer wishes would never occur. However, it is unrealistic to expect that any network component can exist forever without failure. Therefore, one can reasonably anticipate that a few ...