Power transformers behavior under the occurrence of inrush currents and turn-to-turn winding insulation faults

19th International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Oliveira, Luís M R ^a,b   Cardoso, A J Marques ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Incipient winding faults; Inrush currents; Protective relaying; Transformers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; POWER TRANSFORMERS;

IN-RUSH CURRENT; INTERNAL FAULTS; PROTECTIVE RELAYING; WINDING FAULTS; WINDING INSULATION;

WINDING;

EID: 78649604867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICELMACH.2010.5608303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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