Predictive Diagnosis of High-Power Transformer Faults by Networking Vibration Measuring Nodes with Integrated Signal Processing

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1749-1760

  Saponara, Sergio ^a   Fanucci, Luca ^a   Bernardo, Fabio ^a   Falciani, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CEG Elettronica Spa   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electronic instrumentation; high power transformers; power system measurements; predictive diagnosis; uninterruptible power supply (UPS); vibration acceleration measurements

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; FAULT DETECTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; RAILROADS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRESSES;

DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; HIGH POWER TRANSFORMER; INTEGRATED SIGNAL PROCESSING; MECHANICAL DEGRADATION; PREDICTIVE DIAGNOSTICS; RAILWAY APPLICATIONS; SAFETY CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 85006091228     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2016.2552658     Document Type: Article

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