Facilities and testing capabilities
The laboratory offers testing to International and British Standards, and staff have access to the full database of British Standards. You can find more details on our activities with these facilities on the commercial testing page.
Our state of the art facilities
These include:
- 2 main high voltage halls
- 15 discrete high-voltage test areas
- Temperature and humidity-controlled room 5-50oC, 10-80%RH
- Faraday room
- Environmental / Salt-fog chamber
- Materials Laboratory for electrical, thermal, mechanical and optical characterisation
- Partial Discharge, Capacitance and Tan Delta measurements
- Sample Preparation Room
- Forensic Rooms (X-ray analysis, Raman microprobe and IR spectroscopy)
- Specialist HV engineering workshop
- Hardware in the loop (HIL) setup
High voltage power supply equipment
- 1MV / 50kJ lightning and switching impulse generator
- 300kV AC, pd free
- 600kV DC
Medium voltage power supply equipment
- 280kV lightning and switching impulse generator
- 200kV AC, pd free
- 140kV DC
- Range of current transformers (to 3kA)
Vacuum systems
- Bi-Turbo vacuum chamber (ultra-high throughput vacuum system)
- Vertical vacuum chamber (thermal testing capabilities)
- Spherical vacuum chamber (multiple measurement ports)