Probabilistic indicators for assessing age- and loading-based criticality of transformers to cascading failure events

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2558-2566

  Awadallah, Selma K E ^a   Milanović, Jovica V ^a   Jarman, Paul N ^b   Wang, Zhongdong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL GRID   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; cascading failure; criticality; hot spot temperature (HST); power transformer; second dependent failure; thermal stress; unavailability

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); POWER TRANSFORMERS; THERMAL STRESS;

AGE; CASCADING FAILURES; DEPENDENT FAILURE; HOTSPOT TEMPERATURE; UNAVAILABILITY;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING;

EID: 84906781518     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2308581     Document Type: Article

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