Investigation of Thermal Behavior of an Oil-Directed Cooled Transformer Winding

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1091-1098

  Tenbohlen, Stefan ^a   Schmidt, Nicolas ^a   Breuer, Christian ^b   Khandan, Saeed ^a   Lebreton, Raphael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

computational fluid dynamics; oil directed cooling; oil flow rate; optical investigation; Power transformer; thermal modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; NUMERICAL METHODS; POWER TRANSFORMERS; TRANSFORMER WINDINGS; WINDING;

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS; HIGH POWER LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OIL DIRECTED; OIL FLOW RATE; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR; THERMAL MODELLING;

OIL FILLED TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 85045405147     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2017.2711786     Document Type: Article

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