Experimental investigation of internal short circuit faults leading to advanced incipient behavior and failure of a distribution transformer

2004 IEEE PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1407-1415

  Butler Purry, Karen L ^a   Mousavi, Mirrasoul Jaafari ^a   Bagriyanik, Mustafa ^b   Palmer Buckle, Peter ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BLACK AND VEATCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophic failure; Distribution transformer; Field experiments; Incipient faults; Internal short circuit faults

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC FAILURE; DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; INCIPIENT FAULTS; INTERNAL SHORT CIRCUIT FAULTS;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; WINDING;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS;

EID: 15944385963     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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