Design of power transformers – e-lesson #10: Temperature rise
Hosted by: Aleksandar Lojpur
This is lesson #10 in the Design of power transformers course, authored and hosted by Aleksandar Lojpur. It is conducted on the Intermediate level and you can save your seat here.
This lesson deals with the transformer cooling system types, cooling equipment and cooling methods. It will also deal with the topics of thermal image for different cooling methods and it will give tips and tricks related to the following:
· Low hot spot design
· Advantages and drawbacks of different cooling systems
· Hot spot factor for the test field
About the author
Aleksandar Lojpur
Aleksandar Lojpur is a Master of Electrical Engineering, having obtained the degree at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
In the period from 2014 to 2021 he performed the duty of Head of Electrical design at the Končar Power Transformers Ltd., a joint venture of Siemens Energy AG and Končar, while from 2019 to 2020 he was a lecturer at the Postgraduate Specialist Study in Transformers – Transformer Design at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.
His most notable projects include 200 MVA autotransformer with phase shift regulation for Croatia; 560 MVA, 550 kV single phase autotransformer for USA; 1,000 MVA, 420 kV autotransformer for Norway; 240 MVA, 275 kV ester-filled autotransformer for the UK; 400 MVA, 245 kV split winding network transformer, SC-tested for the Netherlands.