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The Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory

We are an active centre for research into dielectric materials and insulation systems, as well as high voltage and related phenomena. We are also a commercial testing house and consultancy service. We have state-of-the-art facilities, supported by a specialist engineering team who are all actively involved in internationally leading research.

Research

HV Research The research activities of the laboratory span a number of topics. More details can be found in the research section of this website.
  

Commercial Testing

HV Research A wide range of testing capability and technical advice is available for commercial customers. Click here for more information

MSc Energy and Sustainability

Lab WikiThis new MSc course will consider aspects of sustainable energy generation as well as the issues concerned with bulk electrical energy transport to the ultimate user.
Click here for more information and a syllabus.
  

Highvoltage News

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The Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory is hosting the fourth UHVnet colloquium at the Winchester Guildhall on 18 and 19 January.

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Hollow Cathode Thruster
This year sees the addition of a new research area to the laboratory, that of space electric propulsion which uses low temperature plasmas.

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Changes in a liquid crystal structure during cooling inspired one of the poems.
As part of Southampton University’s Multidisciplinary Research Week Litmus Project, the Tony Davies High Voltage laboratory was pleased to invite Professor Robyn Bolam from the Department of English to visit the lab and after discussion with students and staff, write a series of poems relating to the research carried out.

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Some of the critical problems facing the world’s power systems will be discussed by Professor Alun Vaughan in his inaugural lecture on Wednesday 1 February.

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Featured ProjectAn investigation into partial discharge sources and locations along the high voltage transformers

This project is concerned with a new approach to the condition monitoring and measurement for Partial discharge (PD) especially in terms of its location along high voltage transformer windings. PD... [more]

Most Recently Added Publications

Goddard, K.F., Wang, P., Lewin, P.L. and Swingler, S.G. (2012) Detection and location of underground cables using magnetic field measurements. Measurement Science and Technology, 23, (5)(doi:10.1088/0957-0233/23/5/055002)

Evaggorou, Demetres, Kyprianou, Aandreas, Lewin, Paul L., Stavrou, Andreas and Georghiou, George E. (2012) A lower dimensional feature vector for identification of partial discharges of different origin using time measurements. Measurement Science and Technology, 23, (5), 055606/1-055606/9. (doi:10.1088/0957-0233/23/5/055606)