The influence of modeling transformer age related failures on system reliability

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 970-979

  Awadallah, Selma K E ^a   Milanovic, Jovica V ^a   Jarman, Paul N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL GRID   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrhenius Weibull; critical transformer sites; end of life failure; normal distribution; power system reliability; power transformer; thermal stress; unavailability; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL STRESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CRITICAL TRANSFORMER SITES; END OF LIVES; POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY; UNAVAILABILITY; UNCERTAINTY; WEIBULL;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 85027932374     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2331103     Document Type: Article

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