Furan analysis for liquid power transformers

IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 8-21

  Cheim, Luiz ^a   Platts, Donald ^b   Prevost, Thomas ^c   Xu, Shuzhen ^d  

^a ABB INC   (United States)

^b PPL Corporation   (United States)

^c OMICRON ELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^d FM Global Engineering and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; degree of polymerization; furans; transformer life assessment; transformer paper insulation

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; FURANS; LABORATORY STUDIES; TRANSFORMER LIFE; TRANSFORMER PAPER INSULATION;

AGING OF MATERIALS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; OIL FILLED TRANSFORMERS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POWER TRANSFORMERS;

PAPER;

EID: 84858166582     PISSN: 08837554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEI.2012.6159177     Document Type: Review

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