Estimation of transformer saturation characteristics from inrush current waveforms

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 170-177

  Abdulsalam, Sami G ^a   Xu, Wilsun ^a   Neves, Washington L A ^b   Liu, Xian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic transient; Inrush transients; Parameter estimation; Transformer modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSIENT; INRUSH CURRENT WAVEFORM; INRUSH TRANSIENTS; TRANSFORMER MODELING; TRANSFORMER SATURATION; VOLTAGE WAVEFORM;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33244493281     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2005.859295     Document Type: Article

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