Hosted by: C. S. NARASIMHAN. / Free, Basic level
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The content of this lesson is fully vendor-agnostic, but it is sponsored by Ergon.
The topic covers the following aspects:
- Why mineral oil is the most popular fluid among different oils
- A technical comparison of oil-filled transformers (OIT) with gas-insulated transformers, dry-type transformers and liquid nitrogen cooled transformers highlighting the major advantages of OITs over the other types of transformers
- Finally, a list of major transformer oil suppliers and the grades of oils they make will also be provided
Keywords: mineral oil, oil-filled transformers, SF6 insulated transformer, dry type, HTS
About the author
C. S. NARASIMHAN.
Dr. Narasimhan is a Ph.D. in Chemistry with over 30 years of experience in Industrial R&D. While working as a technical director in a major oil company manufacturing transformer oils, he led project teams for developing and commercializing mineral oils for EHV applications and ester fluids. He is a member of several IEC and CIGRE committees dealing with transformer oils. He has several publications and patents to his credit.