A field study of aging in paper-oil insulation systems

IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-19

  Lelekakis, Nick ^a   Guo, Wenyu ^a   Martin, Daniel ^a   Wijaya, Jaury ^a   Susa, Dejan ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

degree of polymerization; furan analysis; paper aging; power transformer

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CELLULOSE DEGRADATION; CELLULOSIC MATERIAL; DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; FIELD STUDIES; FURAN ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PAPER AGING; PAPER INSULATION; PAPER-OIL INSULATION SYSTEM; POWER UTILITY; USEFUL LIFE; WOOD PULP;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; INSULATING OIL;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 84856380558     PISSN: 08837554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEI.2012.6130527     Document Type: Article

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