Insulation life assessment of power transformer thermal characteristics using Monte Carlo simulation

Gaodianya Jishu/High Voltage Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 856-861

  Du, Lin ^a   Yuan, Lei ^a   Xiong, Hao ^b   Yang, Li Jun ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Sun, Cai Xin ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Extra High Voltage Bureau of Chongqing Electric Power Corporation   (China)

Author keywords

Insulation life assessment; Load simulation; Monte Carlo simulation; Power transformer; Regression coefficient method; Thermal characteristic

Indexed keywords

INSULATION LIFE; LOAD SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS;

COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); THERMAL INSULATION; TRANSFORMER SUBSTATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77952923025     PISSN: 10036520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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