Investigations of no-load and load losses in amorphous core dry-type transformers

19th International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Steinmetz, Thorsten ^a   Cranganu Cretu, Bogdan ^a   Smajic, Jasmin ^a  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amorphous metal core transformer; Distribution transformer; Dry type transformer; Energy efficiency; Finite element method; Load losses; Magnetic anisotropy; No load losses

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS METAL CORE TRANSFORMERS; DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER; DRY-TYPE TRANSFORMER; FINITE ELEMENT; LOAD LOSS; NO-LOAD LOSS;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC LOAD LOSS; ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; METAL ANALYSIS; POWER TRANSFORMERS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78649540998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICELMACH.2010.5608162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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