Thermal response and failure mode evaluation of a dry-type transformer

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 120, Issue , 2017, Pages 763-771

  Blanco Alonso, Pelayo E ^a   Meana Fernández, Andrés ^a   Fernández Oro, Jesús M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrothermal effects; Failure analysis; Numerical analysis; Power transformer insulation; Power transformer losses

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; INSULATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OUTAGES; POWER TRANSFORMERS; THERMAL INSULATION;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; DRY-TYPE TRANSFORMER; ELECTRO-THERMAL EFFECTS; HOTSPOT TEMPERATURE; POWER TRANSFORMER INSULATION; POWER TRANSFORMER LOSS; TRANSFORMER FAILURE; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING;

EID: 85018490413     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.04.007     Document Type: Article

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