Effect of distributed generations on aging failure probability of distribution transformers

Electric Power Components and Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1470-1485

  Mousavi Agah, Seyed Mohammad ^a   Hashemi, Hamed ^b   Azad, Ehsan ^b   Nafisi, Hamed ^b   Safaie, Arman ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

distributed generation; power distribution network; power transformer

Indexed keywords

AGING FAILURES; COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION UNITS; DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMER; LOW-VOLTAGE; MICRO TURBINE; OLD AGE; POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84866384054     PISSN: 15325008     EISSN: 15325016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15325008.2012.700383     Document Type: Article

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