Thermal modeling of electrical utility transformer

Heat dissipation is always a problem in large power transformers. Increased market competency demands for accurate determination of the thermal profile across the transformer. This paper presents a thermal model to simulate the thermal behavior of the electrical utility transformers. The thermal model is arrived at using the principle of thermal electrical analogy and the fact that the losses in the transformer are distributed rather than lumped. In this paper, the model is implemented for single phase transformer and the same model can be extended to three phase transformer. Simulation results are presented.

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