For utilities, proper protection against high voltage transient overvoltages and overloads is critical to ensure maximum life of their power transformers. Failure to do so can result in significant ...

Keywords: High voltage bushing structures. Seismic performance. Stiffening techniques. Vulnerability. Damage mitigation. Numerical simulations. Shaking table tests ...

GE’s Digital Energy business has launched its Multilin 845 Transformer Protection System, part of the Multilin 8-Series platform of protective relay devices, which includes the 850 Feeder Protection ...

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The global power transmission and distribution industry continues to experience steady growth driven by grid modernization, renewable energy integration, and rising electricity demand. Within this ...

Phase-shifting transformers play an important role to control the power flow within our modern networks that include more and more renewable energy sources. The most important protection principle for ...

The latest version of RelaySimTest (V3.20) enables users to extend the benefits of system-based testing to transformer protection 1. Instead of adopting the usual approach of simply testing the ...

Each turbine in a wind farm is equipped with a step-up transformer, which boosts (steps up) turbine generator output voltage from a few hundred volts to the collector system’s medium voltage ...

Industrial fires cause damage of about R430-million a year. Transformer fires are disruptive, dangerous and may cause loss of life. Depending on the severity of the fire, the likelihood of explosions ...

The addition of flexural stiffeners on the transformer cover plates was explored as a means to stiffen the base of the bushings and mitigate their seismic vulnerability. Numerical and experimental ...