Investigations on sensitivity of FRA technique in diagnosis of transformer winding deformations

This work studies the sensitivity of frequency response analysis (FRA) method in detecting different types of deformations on a 6.6 kV plain disc type transformer winding. Winding deformations such as axial displacements and inter-turn faults are experimentally simulated and the measured FRA results are presented. A high frequency transformer-winding model is developed to investigate the sensitivity of the FRA method for these winding deformations. A comparison is carried out and a good agreement is shown between measured and calculated FRA results.

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