ABSTRACT

Umar Hamid, The Control System of a High Voltage Isolation Material Accelerated Aging Test (supervised by Salama Manjang and Rhiza S. Sadjad).

	This is a design project to develop an automatic control system for an accelerated aging test of the high voltage isolation material. The supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system of the test is designed as a Programmable Logic Control (PLC)-based system for both multi-stress and partial-stress testings. The PLC unit is connected to a Personal Computer (PC) to record all of the data collected from an experiment. The scanning period of the system can be set as ranging from 1 to 30 ms

	The experiment conducted in the High Voltage Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Hasanuddin University MAKASSAR, Indonesia, covers up to 6 (six) simulated treatments for the materials, namely the UV radiation test, the artificial rain, the temperature, the humidity, the 7 kg/m3 (according to IEC 1109 standard) salt mist and the flash-over test. Three types of isolators, i.e. the polymer isolator, the ceramic isolator and the glass isolator are tested.