Substation Testing & Maintenance
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Substation Testing & Maintenance
Advancements in Dissolved Gas Analysis: Accounting for Gas Loss
Dissolved gas analysis (DGA) in transformers is a very successful periodic screening method to identify transformers that may be having problems. It is a symptom-based assessment of health, rather than a condition-based assessment. That is because the gases themselves do not cause failure, but are just by-products of deteriorating insulation caused by abnormalities such as
hot spots or electrical discharges. The abnormalities are what might fail the transformer. If the transformer loses fault gases, the...
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