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Abstract This paper presents a new method that permits to winding legs, the yokes, the outer legs) and the influence of
determine the core losses under the nonsinusoidal excitation. the air gaps of the conre are required. It is difficult to obtain
The method requires the measured data of the transformer no- these data. These methods are based on an excitation
load test. This method is applied for predicting the core losses comprizing a fundamental and only one harmonic
under the sinusoidal conditions with an adequate accuracy
component. In reality, all harmonic (3, 5 , 7 and 9th)
from the test results obtained with the real nonsinusoidal
voltage waveform.
components of applied voltage can occur in the transformer
no-load test. This is why, this paper presents a new method
I. INTRODUCTION that permits to determine the core loss from the measured
data under the real nonsinusoidal excitation without
Highly distorted voltage waveforms may appear across the artificial separation ofthe hysteresis and eddy current losses.
terminals of large-rating power transformers when these are The method requires the data from the measurement of the
tested to determine iron losses due to the distorted transformer no-load test and can take into account all
magnetizing current. Many papers study the errors in the harmonic components. By the proposed method, the
determination of iron loss when there is a supply voltage influence of the phase, the magnitude and the order of
distortion [1-51, harmonic components on the transformer core losses are
examined. This method can be applied to the correction of
Nakata et al. [11 propose a method for analyzing the general transformer no-load losses.
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properties of distorted flux in the core and give the relation
between the waveform factor of the applied voltage and the 11. DETERMINATION
OF CORE LOSSES
distortion factor of the flux.Slomovitz 121 presents a method
that takes into account the relative height and the position of The magnetizing pari of a transformer can be characterized
the small loops. OKelly [3] examines the influence of the by only two passive nonlinear components (Rm and L, in
phase and the magnitude of the harmonic component of Fig. 1) [6, 71.
excitation on iron loss at different depths and for a wide
propose
range of aplate
method
thickness
based and
on the
frequencies.
peak valueLavers
of fluxet density
al. [4] il RI
for estimating the hysteresis loss component in a thin
lamination. Ray [5] uses a model based on a piecewise
h
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linearisation technique to simulate steady-state B/H R m- Lm
characteristics for predicting the hysteresis losses in low-loss
Fig. 1. Single phase equivalent scheme of transformer
silicon-iron laminations. These papers are a good reference
for studying the influence of the distorted flux on the iron The main saturation flux-current cWVe is(3L) can be
loss.
represented by a pth odd order polynomial:
Most of these methods are based on the B(H) relation to i, =k,h+k2hp p = 1,3,5 ... (la)
study the influence of distorted flux on the iron loss in the The hyste&s WeInt ih(h) is determined by a qth even
material (thin laminations, for example). However in order order p o l y n o ~ ~ :
to know the transformer core loss, the information of the
B(H) curve, the length, the section of each iron branch (the j ,= { (:)*}%
k, +k, - q = 2 , 4 , 6 ... (lb)
A. Sinusoidal Excitation
E x a ~ p l e for
: q = 2; we have:
1 3
= - k3V2 + - k4V2
Piosses (7)
2 8
In comparison with (6), C1 and C2 are determined by:
C1 = 1/2; C2 = 3/8.
B. Nonsinusoidal Excitation
OF THEPROPOSED METHOD
111. EVALUATION
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Fig. 4. Relative loss (P,o,sep/P,)in function of the magnitude (0-0.5 pu) and
the angle (mRad.) of a fundamental and a third-harmonic component of
applied voltage.
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[8] and the measurement for three level of applied voltage. 22
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Table 1. Comparison of loss obtained by using the proposed method (PI), the
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IV. CONCLUSIONS
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A new method for the determination of core loss under the
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method was applied to the correction of the transformer no-
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load measurement. The computed results have been verified
by experimental results and have been compared with the
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IEC criterion. The corrected loss increases with the level of
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the applied voltage in the transformer no-load test.
current (A]
REFERENCES
Fig. 7. Hysteresis loop (V=l.lSpu)
[I] T. Nakata, Y Ish&=% M Nakano, Iron Losses of Silicon Steel Core
pp 10-20