Impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil

This paper investigates the impact of conducting materials on the correlation of furan concentration in transformer oil and its spectral response characteristics. The presence of furan derivatives in aged-transformer oil has been one of the key indicators for solid dielectric deterioration. Identifi...

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Main Authors: Das, Narottam, Abu-Siada, Ahmed, Islam, Syed
Other Authors: Michael Negnevitsky
Format: Conference Paper
Published: AUPEC 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29814
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author Das, Narottam
Abu-Siada, Ahmed
Islam, Syed
author2 Michael Negnevitsky
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Das, Narottam
Abu-Siada, Ahmed
Islam, Syed
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description This paper investigates the impact of conducting materials on the correlation of furan concentration in transformer oil and its spectral response characteristics. The presence of furan derivatives in aged-transformer oil has been one of the key indicators for solid dielectric deterioration. Identification and quantification of furan derivatives are currently performed using high performance liquid chromatography or gas chromatography-mass spectrometry based on ASTM D5837 standard. Although these techniques are well established, they need an expert personal to conduct the test and to analyse its results. Moreover, the test is relatively expensive and the analysis of oil sample may take days as most utilities sending transformer oil samples to external laboratories to be tested. Recently, it has been proven that furan concentration in transformer oil has a strong correlation to the oil spectral response. This paper is to validate this finding and to investigate the impact of conducting materials within transformer oil on this correlation. In this context, extensive experimental tests are conducted to assess the impact of various concentration of conducting materials (e.g., copper dust) dissolved in transformer oil samples of different furan contents on its absorption and transmission spectra. The measured experimental results show that, the impact of such small amount ofdissolved conducting materials on the oil spectral response is minimal.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-298142017-02-28T01:51:01Z Impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil Das, Narottam Abu-Siada, Ahmed Islam, Syed Michael Negnevitsky This paper investigates the impact of conducting materials on the correlation of furan concentration in transformer oil and its spectral response characteristics. The presence of furan derivatives in aged-transformer oil has been one of the key indicators for solid dielectric deterioration. Identification and quantification of furan derivatives are currently performed using high performance liquid chromatography or gas chromatography-mass spectrometry based on ASTM D5837 standard. Although these techniques are well established, they need an expert personal to conduct the test and to analyse its results. Moreover, the test is relatively expensive and the analysis of oil sample may take days as most utilities sending transformer oil samples to external laboratories to be tested. Recently, it has been proven that furan concentration in transformer oil has a strong correlation to the oil spectral response. This paper is to validate this finding and to investigate the impact of conducting materials within transformer oil on this correlation. In this context, extensive experimental tests are conducted to assess the impact of various concentration of conducting materials (e.g., copper dust) dissolved in transformer oil samples of different furan contents on its absorption and transmission spectra. The measured experimental results show that, the impact of such small amount ofdissolved conducting materials on the oil spectral response is minimal. 2013 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29814 AUPEC fulltext
spellingShingle Das, Narottam
Abu-Siada, Ahmed
Islam, Syed
Impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil
title Impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil
title_full Impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil
title_fullStr Impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil
title_full_unstemmed Impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil
title_short Impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil
title_sort impact of conducting materials on furan-spectral correlation of transformer oil
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29814