Abstract

In this work, breakdown voltage characteristics of oil as insulation medium is studied. Breakdown voltage is measured
under different electrode gap and ramp rate of applied voltage. Weibull distribution is used to analyse the measured
results. The time to failure and the corresponding voltage magnitude depends on electrode gap and ramp rate. The
breakdown results are further processed to train Support Vector Machine (SVM), a machine learning algorithm. The
electric field features corresponding to breakdown voltage are extracted from electric field distribution and are used
to train Support Vector Machine. The parameters that configure SVM during training process for prediction or
classification of new data are estimated. The breakdown mechanism influences values of these parameters.