Loss evaluation and total ownership cost of power transformers-part I: A comprehensive method

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1872-1880

  Charalambous, Charalambos A ^a   Milidonis, Andreas ^a   Lazari, Antonis ^a   Nikolaidis, Alexandros I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Demand component of losses; energy component of losses; power transformers; system and cost parameters

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE METHOD; COST PARAMETERS; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY COMPONENTS; OWNERSHIP COSTS; REAL SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION FACILITIES;

COSTS;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 84880066535     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2013.2262506     Document Type: Article

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