Improved power transformer winding fault detection using FRA diagnostics-part 1: Axial displacement simulation

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 556-563

  Hashemnia, Naser ^a   Abu Siada, A ^a   Islam, S ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

axial faults; condition monitoring; FRA; Insulator winding integrity diagnostics; Power transformer

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FAULT DETECTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INDUCTANCE; POWER TRANSFORMERS; WINDING;

3D-FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT PARAMETER; EQUIVALENT ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS; FRA; FREQUENCY RESPONSE ANALYSES (FRA); QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE-PHASE TRANSFORMERS; TRANSFORMER EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

EID: 84923171863     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2014.004591     Document Type: Article

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