Improved detection of power transformer winding movement by extending the FRA high frequency range

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1930-1938

  Wang, M ^a   Vandermaar, A John ^a   Srivastava, K D ^b  

^a POWERTECH LABS INC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frequency response; Modeling; Transfer functions; Transformers; Windings

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

CONVENTIONAL TEST CIRCUITS MASK; FREQUENCY RESPONSE ANALYSIS (FRA); POWER TRANSFORMER WINDING MOVEMENT;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING;

EID: 23944492606     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2005.848674     Document Type: Article

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