Self-capacitance of high-voltage transformers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2081-2092

  Dalessandro, Luca ^a   da Silveira Cavalcante, Fabiana ^b   Kolar, Johann W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capacitance calculation; Electrostatic analysis; High voltage transformers

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ELECTROSTATIC ANALYSIS; HIGH-VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER; SELF-CAPACITANCE;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 34548709179     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2007.904252     Document Type: Article

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