Effect of different connection schemes, terminating resistors & measurement impedances on the sensitivity of the FRA method

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1713-1720

  Samimi, Mohammad Hamed ^a   Tenbohlen, Stefan ^a   Akmal, Amir Abbas Shayegani ^b   Mohseni, Hossein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Frequency response; Power transformer testing; Sensitivity; Transfer functions; Transformer windings

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; POWER TRANSFORMERS; RESISTORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WINDING;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE ANALYSES (FRA); MEASUREMENT IMPEDANCE; MEASURING FREQUENCY; MEASURING TECHNIQUE; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; MECHANICAL INTEGRITY; POWER TRANSFORMER TESTING; SENSITIVITY;

TRANSFORMER WINDINGS;

EID: 85021767914     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2016.2572160     Document Type: Article

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