Reducing losses in distribution transformers

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 821-826

  Olivares, Juan Carlos ^a   Escarela Pérez, Rafael ^c   Liu, Yilu ^a   Driesen, Johan ^d   Cañedo, Jose M ^b   Moreno, Pablo ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA AZCAPOTZALCO   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dielectric losses; Loss measurements; Shielding; Transformer; Transformer cores

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

TRANSFORMER CORES;

DIELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 0037817617     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2003.813851     Document Type: Article

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