COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF 33KVA PORCELAIN INSULATOR PRODUCE FROM NSU AND EKEBEDI CLAY

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Electrical insulators are nonconductive device used for transmission and distribution of electricity from one place to another. As the name implies they insulate and protect electrical conductor, against losses of current during the distribution and transmission.

Porcelain is a blend of three silicate mineral, Kaolin, quartz and feldspar each of which react upon one another to produce a very strong and hard bond when subjected to appropriate heat treatment (Eke, 2006).

According to Idenyi (2000), the important of electrical porcelain insulator in power or energy transmission cannot be overemphasized.

This ceramic material (porcelain) of all the material used for insulator, porcelain is the most suitable and reliable insulating material. This is because porcelain has high electrical resistance, high mechanical strength and high dielectric constant. Clay, a naturally available ceramic raw material is widely used for the production of electrical porcelain and large variations of items such as, circuit breaker, cut-outswitches component for power bushing weather shed and suspension high voltage insulator.

An electric current flow through a conductor when there is overall movement of electric charge through it, Michael Faraday (1791-1861) during his study of magnetic effect of electric current discovered electromagnetic induction phenomenon. This made it possible to generate large quantity of electric current. Insulator such as porcelain are used to distribute control and minimize current losses of the conductor.

Ceramic material are often used as electric insulator. They are largely clay and they are found less conductive than metals. Ceramic insulator are used in many type of circuit to block current or protect delegate section from overheating as a result of high temperature (Udenagwu, 2016).

The research is going to produce a porcelain insulator using Nsu and Ekebedi clay with other raw materials in other to make available porcelain insulator of international standard at cheaper rate to reduce the cost of importation and save our foreign exchange.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

In spite of the enormous wide range of availability of raw material in Nigeria, mostly used insulators are still important into the country due to manufacturing of electrical insulator in small qualities. The country spend a lot of foreign exchange importing porcelain.

This research is to draw the attention of our country Nigeria on the need to utilize our local raw materials for the production of porcelain insulator and consequently reduce high rate of expenditure on importation of porcelain insulator.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

This research is aim at producing a standard 33kVA porcelain insulator using Nsu and Ekebedi clay as the major raw material which will meet the requirement of international standard specification for electrical porcelain insulator.

This study also aims to identify the locality that posse’s good clay quality for the production of electrical porcelain insulator.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This study covers the production of electrical porcelain insulator (33KAV) using Nsu and Ekebedi clay as the major raw materials,

The characterization of both the raw material and the product will be carried out.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This research will promote the availability of electrical porcelain insulator of international standard at cheaper rate and subsequently enhance the export of electrical porcelain insulator from Nigeria which will generate more revenue to our government.

The research will also go a long way to reduce unemployment among youth who study in the related field and thus rapid electrification of rural area in Nigeria....

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