Calculation of stress-dependent life cycle costs of a substation subsystem - Demonstrated for controlled energization of unloaded power transformers

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2032-2038

  Politano, Diego ^a   Fröhlich, Klaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Controlled transformer energization; Economic comparison; Life cycle costs; Point on wave controlled HVAC circuit breaker; Substation power transformer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; LIFE CYCLE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTROLLED TRANSFORMER ENERGIZATION; LIFE CYCLE COSTS; SUBSTATION POWER TRANSFORMER; UNLOADED POWER TRANSFORMERS;

TRANSFORMER SUBSTATIONS;

EID: 33750093404     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2006.874120     Document Type: Article

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