EXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATING OF DRY-TYPE TRANSFORMER THERMAL ANALYSIS WITH A NEW APPROACH FOR OUTDOOR APPLICATIONS
Abstract
Since dry type transformers (DTT) has many advantages
over the oily ones, this study focuses on the realibity, feasibility and cost
of DTT to be used at outdoor applications. On this respect the core and winding
temperatures of the 1500 VA DTT transformer model is measured by thermal camera
The operational highest temperature of the transformer is obtained by this way.
The DTT is simulated by ANSYS with the design parameters based On the physical
model, and the simulation values and the real ones are compared to satisfy the
procedure. Then in the light of simulation results, an outer cover is designed
for outdoor applications which is the goal of the paper. The real hot spot
temperature of the 1500 VA DTT is 129 ° C remains the same with the new cover
simulation designed DTT that naturally cooled. Furthermore, the temperature of
the new design DTT is reduced by about 4.6% to 123 ° C by forced cooling. So
the new cover design not only provide to be used at outdoors applications, it
also increases the lifetime of the device, and reduces the operation costs.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Murat Toren
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0000-0002-7012-7088
Türkiye
Mehmet Celebi
This is me
0000-0002-0769-299X
Türkiye
Publication Date
August 30, 2019
Submission Date
September 12, 2018
Acceptance Date
April 17, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 24 Number: 2