Ageing rate of paper insulation used in power transformers Part 1: Oil/paper system with low oxygen concentration

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1999-2008

  Lelekakis, Nick ^a   Martin, Daniel ^a   Wijaya, Jaury ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; cellulose; hydrolysis; oil paper; paper insulation; powertransformer.

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED AGEING; AGEING; AGEING EFFECTS; AGEING PROCESS; AGEING RATES; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY; LIFE EXPECTANCIES; LIFE SPAN; LOW OXYGEN; OIL-PAPERS; OXYGEN CONTENT; PAPER INSULATION; SEALED VESSELS; TEST RIGS;

CELLULOSE; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLYSIS; OXYGEN; POWER TRANSFORMERS;

INSULATION;

EID: 84872138792     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2012.6396958     Document Type: Article

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