Influence factors for the self-healing of metallized polypropylene capacitors

After the local breakdown of the metallized film, the self-healing of the capacitor is influenced by several factors, including the capacitance of metallized capacitor, pressure, as well as the applied voltage. In this paper, they are investigated fundamentally in reference to their influence towards the insulation recovery of the metallized polypropylene. Single metallized polypropylene film and metallized film capacitors are used as experimental samples to study the effect of these factors after local breakdown of the film under the conditions of impregnation and nonimpregnation. The results show that, these factors impose their influences via the infusion energy passing the breakdown path. It is also found that excess the infusion energy will be adverse to the self-healing of metallized polypropylene capacitors.