Determining water in transformer paper insulation: Analyzing aging transformers

IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 23-32

  Martin, Daniel ^a   Saha, Tapan ^a   Dee, Richard ^b   Buckley, Gary ^b   Chinnarajan, Srinivasan ^b   Caldwell, Greg ^c   Zhou, Jian Bin ^c   Russell, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Asset Refurbishment ^*  (Australia)

^c ERGON Energy   (Australia)

Author keywords

condition monitoring; insulation; paper insulation; transformer

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; CONDITION MONITORING; INSULATING MATERIALS; INSULATION; POWER TRANSFORMERS; PROBES; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; THERMAL INSULATION;

DIELECTRIC RESPONSE MEASUREMENTS; INSULATION PAPER; PAPER INSULATION; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; TRANSFORMER; TRANSFORMER INSULATION; TRANSFORMER PAPER INSULATION; WATER CONCENTRATIONS;

PAPER;

CONCENTRATION; INSULATING PAPERS; ISOTHERMS; TRANSFORMERS; WATER;

EID: 84940390538     PISSN: 08837554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEI.2015.7214442     Document Type: Article

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