The Movement Characteristics of Charged Haze Particles in Ionized Field and Its Influence on Contamination of Insulator

The charged haze particles will affect the electric field of a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line and insulator contamination, and even result in pollution flashover. Based on the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin method, the influence of ionized electric field on haze particles’ motion is investigated using numerical calculation and experiments. Example of a coaxial electrode model is studied to verify the validation of the proposed method at first. It is proven that the proposed method agrees well with the measurements. Then, the motion principle of haze particles around an actual HVDC insulator is calculated under different ionized field levels. The result shows that the path of the charged haze particles will deflect along the electric field line driven by the electric field force, accelerating the precipitation of the haze particles on the dc insulators. Also, the contamination accumulation gets worse under severe pollution weather and high-voltage side of insulator.