Causes of transformer failures and diagnostic methods – A review

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 82, Issue , 2018, Pages 1442-1456

  AJ, Christina ^a   Salam, M A ^a   Rahman, Q M ^b   Wen, Fushuan ^a   Ang, S P ^a   Voon, William ^c  

^a FACULTY OF ENGINEERING   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Jalan Rimba Link   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Bushing diagnostics; EDS; High voltage bushing failure; SEM; Transformer diagnostics; Transformer failure

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; OUTAGES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BUSHING DIAGNOSTICS; DIAGNOSTIC METHODS; HIGH VOLTAGE BUSHING; HIGH VOLTAGE BUSHING FAILURE; ROOT CAUSE OF FAILURES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SCANNING ELECTRONS; TEST ANALYSIS; TRANSFORMER DIAGNOSTICS; TRANSFORMER FAILURE;

BUSHINGS;

EID: 85023777547     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2017.05.165     Document Type: Review

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