A new method for detection and evaluation of winding mechanical faults in transformer through transfer function measurements

Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 23-30

  Bigdeli, Mehdi ^a   Vakilian, Mehdi ^b   Rahimpour, Ebrahim ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c ABB AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fault Diagnosis; Measurement; Transfer Function; Transformer; Vector Fitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958858543     PISSN: 15827445     EISSN: 18447600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4316/aece.2011.02004     Document Type: Article

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