Postmortem investigation of power transformers - Profile of degree of polymerization and correlation with furan concentration in the oil

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 886-893

  Leibfried, Thomas ^a   Jaya, Michael ^a   Majer, Norbert ^b   Schafer, Michael ^c   Stach, Manfred ^d   Voss, Stephan ^e  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TENNET TSO B V   (Netherlands)

^c TRANSNETBW GMBH   (Germany)

^d EON Kernkraft GmbH   (Germany)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concentration of furans in the oil; degree of polymerization; paper degradation; postmortem aging investigation of power transformers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DEGREE; AXIAL DIRECTION; DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; INSULATION MATERIALS; PAPER DEGRADATION; PAPER SAMPLES; STEP UP TRANSFORMERS; TRANSFORMER COILS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POWER TRANSFORMERS;

POLYMERIZATION;

EID: 84875666934     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2245152     Document Type: Article

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