Fine tuning of electron beam crosslinking of electrical cables and wires by three-dimensional Monte Carlo modeling
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mangiacapra, Luigi; Ciappa, Mauro; Fichtner, Wolfgang; Stangoni, Maria; Ott, Stephan
- Source
- 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Electrical Insulation Electrical Insulation (ISEI), Conference Record of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on. :1-5 Jun, 2010
- Subject
- Transportation
Signal Processing and Analysis
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Electron beams
Cables
Wires
Monte Carlo methods
Polymers
Laboratories
Research and development
Charge carrier processes
Electron accelerators
Analytical models
Electron beam processing
Polymer cross-linking
Monte Carlo modeling
Heuristic procedures
Process optimization
- Language
- ISSN
- 1089-084X
In this paper, the validity of the dose ratio criterion to define the optimum processing conditions for electron crosslinking of electric cables and wires is investigated. The energy values obtained by different calculation procedures are correlated to the results obtained by simulation with a realistic three-dimensional Monte Carlo model in conjunction with an optimization scheme to define the best dose uniformity in the cable isolation. The study shows that the dose ratio criterion does not provide the best dose uniformity, since the optimum electron beam energy value is usually underestimated.