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LOADING POWER TRANSFORMERS BEYOND NAMEPLATE RATING:SIMULATION SOFTWARE

LOADING POWER TRANSFORMERS BEYOND NAMEPLATE RATING:SIMULATION SOFTWARE VIDEO

Power transsformers are one of the most critical asset in any power system network. Transformers undergoe different load cycles that vary depending the time of day and year in power system conditions. For example, the daily load cycle tends to increase during the early hours of the morning before people leave for work and in the evning after they arrive home.

Similarly, a yearly load cycle during the hot summer months when high ambient temperature cause consumers to ramp up their air conditioners and use more electrical power. During contingecy conditions, single or variuos network elemaents such as transsmission lines, generators or transformers might be isolated from the power system. As a consequence,transformers can become overloaded by reaching magnitudes above its maximum nameplate capability affecting and possible reducing the overall life of the transformer.During transformer overloads, theextra power delivered y the transformer willincrease thetemperature of the oil and internal windings.

Ratron is a simulation software that can give an overview of the possible effect of overloading a certain power transformer up to a certain level. Through this, proper overloading study can be done. The video above will discuss topics regarding loading power transformers beyond its nameplate rating and its consquences to the life span of the transformer.

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