Life cycle management of power transformers: Results and discussion of case studies

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2379-2389

  Müllerová, Eva ^a   Hrůza, Jan ^b   Velek, Jiří ^c   Ullman, Ivo ^c   Stříska, František ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b High Voltage Laboratory of the Electrotechnical Factory by the koda Works ETD TRANSFORMáTORY   (Czech Republic)

^c ČEPS ^*  (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aging; degree of polymerization; furans; insulating system; reliability; service life; tensile strength; transformer

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ELECTRIC AUTOTRANSFORMERS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INSULATION; LIFE CYCLE; POLYMERIZATION; RELIABILITY; SERVICE LIFE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; FURANS; INSULATING SYSTEM; INSULATION SYSTEM; LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT; POST MORTEM ANALYSIS; TRANSFORMER; TRANSFORMER LIFE MANAGEMENT;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 84939508767     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2015.005025     Document Type: Article

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