Improvement of the cooling process of oil-immersed electrical transformers using heat pipes

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1955-1961

  Rosas, César ^a   Moraga, Nelson ^a   Bubnovich, Valeri ^a   Fischer, Rodrigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Energy losses; Finite volume method; Fluid mechanics and heat transfer; Simulated heating test; Time domain methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; OIL FILLED TRANSFORMERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OIL-IMMERSED ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; SIMULATED HEATING TEST; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS; TIME EVOLUTION;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER INSULATION;

EID: 23944447834     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2004.838625     Document Type: Article

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