High Voltage Engineering

In modern times, high voltages are used for a wide variety of applications covering the power systems, industry, and research laboratories. Such applications have become essential to sustain modern civilization. High voltages are applied in laboratories in nuclear research, in particle accelerators, and Van de Graaff generators. For transmission of large bulks of power over long distances, high voltages are indispensable. Also, voltages up to 100 kV are used in electrostatic precipitators, in automobile ignition coils, etc. X-ray equipment for medical and industrial applications also use high voltages. Modern high-voltage test laboratories employ voltages up to 6 MV or more