⎯With the improvement of high temperature superconductor (HTS) practical performance, research and development concerning the applications of HTS transformers have been progressed actively worldwide. This paper provides a comprehensive summary on various HTS transformers, and studies the design of a single-phase 10 kVA (220V/24V) HTS transformer prototype to verify HTS for practical transformer...

This paper presents an experimental investigation of transformer dielectric response and solid insulation water content. The dielectric response was carried out on the base of Hybrid Frequency Dielectric Spectroscopy and Polarization Current measurements method (FDS &PC). The calculation of the water content in paper is based on the water content in oil and the obtained equilibrium curves. A re...

Power transformer is a core equipment of power system, which undertakes the important functions of power transmission and transformation, and its safe and stable operation has great significance to the normal operation of the whole power system. Due to the complex structure of the transformer, the use of single information for condition-based maintenance (CBM) has certain limitations, with the ...

Thermal modeling of transformer is necessary to ensure the optimal design and cost of manufacture of transformer. Either of the empirical formulae available from the standards and practical measurement techniques used in the industries as an alternative to the formulae will not be able to answer the problem exactly and hence the development of software based thermal modeling techniques that use...

Transformers are widely used in electric power system to perform the primary functions, such as voltage transformation and isolation. So the transformer design is emphasize. In this paper, a transformer design optimization method is proposed aiming at designing the transformer to optimize the efficiency and cost. The design optimization of transformer is formulated as unconstrained non linear m...

Inductively coupling power transfer is an emerging technique, which enables power transfer to loads through air. The contactless transformer is the key component of it, and the design of a transformer is a timeconsuming work with a large number of tests. In this paper, a design method of contactless transformer with finite element analysis is presented. First the contactless transformer model i...

Oil testing has found widespread use in assessing the quality of the insulation system of a transformer. Techniques such as Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) have been proven to be reliable in this task, but are expensive, laborious and time consuming. It is also not available for field use. This paper proposes the combined use of gas and optical sensing technology for the testing of transformer oil...

Transformers are normally designed and built for use at rated frequency and sinusoidal load current. A non-linear load on a transformer leads to harmonic power losses which cause increased operational costs and additional heating in transformer parts. It leads to higher losses, early fatigue of insulation, premature failure and reduction of the useful life of the transformer. To prevent these p...

Modal parameters of power transformer winding are closely related to transformer manufacturing and detection technology of winding deformation based on vibration analysis method. Aimed at identifying the modal parameters of transformer winding accurately, a modal experiment is designed and made on a real 10 kV power transformer. An improved Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) algorithm is propos...

State monitoring is very important for the safe operation of high-voltage transformers. A non-contact vibro-acoustic detection method based on the Blind Source Separation (BSS) was proposed in this paper to promote the development of transformer on-line monitoring technology. Firstly, the algorithm of Sparse Component Analysis (SCA) was applied for the adaptive extraction of vibro-acoustic sign...