A preliminary assessment of the impact of ambient temperature rise on distribution transformer loss of life

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2000-2007

  Stahlhut, Jonathan W ^a   Heydt, Gerald T ^b   Selover, Nancy J ^c  

^a Arizona Public Service Co   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c State Climatological Office for the State of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Climate change; Distribution engineering; Distribution transformers; IEEE standard C57.91; Loss of life; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; TEMPERATURE;

AMBIENT TEMPERATURE; DISTRIBUTION ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS; IEEE STANDARD C57.91; LOSS OF LIFE; URBANIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 54049157400     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2008.2002848     Document Type: Article

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