A review of transformer losses

Electric Power Components and Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1046-1062

  Olivares Galván, Juan C ^a   Georgilakis, Pavlos S ^b   Ocon Valdez, Rodrigo ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA AZCAPOTZALCO   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Industrias IEM   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Core joints; High current; Overheating; Stray losses; Tank losses; Transformer

Indexed keywords

CORE JOINTS; HIGH-CURRENT; MAIN GROUP; PRACTICAL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH AREAS; TRANSFORMER CORE; TRANSFORMER LOSS; TRANSFORMER TANKS;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

TANKS (CONTAINERS);

EID: 70449672798     PISSN: 15325008     EISSN: 15325016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15325000902918990     Document Type: Review

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