Economic evaluation of transformer selection in electrical power systems

19th International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Amoiralis, Eleftherios I ^a   Tsili, Marina A ^b   Kladas, Antonios G ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distribution transformers; Power system economics

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEM; FINANCIAL BENEFITS; LIFE SPAN; OPERATIONAL COSTS; POWER SYSTEM ECONOMICS;

ELECTRIC MACHINERY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; PRIVATIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 78649576704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICELMACH.2010.5607904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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