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RMS Energy Responds to the Changing Engineering Needs of Customers

Today’s electrical infrastructure in the United States might have been viewed as a work of science fiction when the first commercial power grid was conceived and built in New York’s lower Manhattan in the 1880s. But it didn’t take long for fiction to become fact. Thomas...

Leakers, What a Mess!

Electric Substation apparatus, transformers and circuit breakers, are the workhorses of the electric transmission grid. Our focus in this article is on the issue of dielectric media leaks. Specifically, oil in large power transformers and oil or SF6 gas in power circuit breakers. Oil and gas leaks...

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TRANSFORMER INRUSH

ABSTRACT
Here we discuss the phenomenon of transformer inrush; what it is and its significance to transformer protection design.

INTRODUCTION
A couple of years ago in this Transformer Special Edition, we wrote an article that covered the most used transformer protection schemes. As was pointed out in that article, protective systems have two jobs. They must detect conditions that endanger personnel and equipment, But they must also allow the normal and expected power system and...

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