Shunt capacitors are commonly used in distribution system for reactive power
compensation. Different analytical, numerical programming, heuristic and artificial intelligent …

With the fast-paced changing technologies in the power industry, new references
addressing new technologies are coming to the market. Based on this fact, there is an urgent …

Transformers are crucial and expensive assets of power grids. Reducing power losses in
power and distribution transformers is important because it increases the efficiency of the …

This paper presents a study on the characterization of aging of transformer oil–pressboard
insulation. Traditional and modern diagnostic tools and techniques were used to investigate …

This article presents an extensive survey of current research on the transformer loss
problem, particularly from the view of practical engineering applications. It reveals that the …

Copper and aluminium are the two conductors most commonly used in transformer
windings. This study presents a comprehensive comparison of distribution transformers built …

An optimal mutual configuration of coils and cooling ducts for the effective cooling of a dry-
type transformer is presented in this paper based on the method developed by the author. In …

In this paper, shapes of cooling ducts in dry-type transformers are optimized using
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the Genetic Algorithm (GA). The GA is used to …

Improvements in energy efficiency of electrical equipment reduce the greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions and contribute to the protection of the environment. Moreover, as system …

Most often, electrical consumers in the residential and educational sectors are different from
industrial electrical consumers. Whereas the vast majority of industrial electrical consumers …