Effects of Iron-Core Topology on Inrush Currents in Three-Phase Multi-Leg Power Transformers

This paper investigates the inrush currents of three-phase (a)symmetric multi-leg transformer cores considering magnetic core structure (e.g., three-leg vs. five-leg) and switching effects (e.g., recloser operating). The electromagnetic steady-state and transient behavior of three-phase transformers...

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Main Authors: Moses, Paul, Masoum, Mohammad, Moghbel, Moayed
Other Authors: IEEE
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45777
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Masoum, Mohammad
Moghbel, Moayed
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description This paper investigates the inrush currents of three-phase (a)symmetric multi-leg transformer cores considering magnetic core structure (e.g., three-leg vs. five-leg) and switching effects (e.g., recloser operating). The electromagnetic steady-state and transient behavior of three-phase transformers significantly differs from single-phase transformer operation mainly because of the unique flux coupling interactions in multi-leg and asymmetric core structures. A recently developed three-leg nonlinear transformer core model is applied to this study which considers the influence of magnetic hysteresis, flux couplings in the core-structure and nonsinusoidal operation in three-phase transformers. Simulations results for multi-leg (e.g., three-leg and five-leg) transformer cores demonstrating inrush current behavior based on the model are presented and discussed.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-457772017-09-13T14:25:25Z Effects of Iron-Core Topology on Inrush Currents in Three-Phase Multi-Leg Power Transformers Moses, Paul Masoum, Mohammad Moghbel, Moayed IEEE Inrush current nonlinear transformer model This paper investigates the inrush currents of three-phase (a)symmetric multi-leg transformer cores considering magnetic core structure (e.g., three-leg vs. five-leg) and switching effects (e.g., recloser operating). The electromagnetic steady-state and transient behavior of three-phase transformers significantly differs from single-phase transformer operation mainly because of the unique flux coupling interactions in multi-leg and asymmetric core structures. A recently developed three-leg nonlinear transformer core model is applied to this study which considers the influence of magnetic hysteresis, flux couplings in the core-structure and nonsinusoidal operation in three-phase transformers. Simulations results for multi-leg (e.g., three-leg and five-leg) transformer cores demonstrating inrush current behavior based on the model are presented and discussed. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45777 10.1109/PESGM.2012.6344892 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle Inrush current
nonlinear transformer model
Moses, Paul
Masoum, Mohammad
Moghbel, Moayed
Effects of Iron-Core Topology on Inrush Currents in Three-Phase Multi-Leg Power Transformers
title Effects of Iron-Core Topology on Inrush Currents in Three-Phase Multi-Leg Power Transformers
title_full Effects of Iron-Core Topology on Inrush Currents in Three-Phase Multi-Leg Power Transformers
title_fullStr Effects of Iron-Core Topology on Inrush Currents in Three-Phase Multi-Leg Power Transformers
title_full_unstemmed Effects of Iron-Core Topology on Inrush Currents in Three-Phase Multi-Leg Power Transformers
title_short Effects of Iron-Core Topology on Inrush Currents in Three-Phase Multi-Leg Power Transformers
title_sort effects of iron-core topology on inrush currents in three-phase multi-leg power transformers
topic Inrush current
nonlinear transformer model
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45777