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Aspect of Power Transformer Design and Optimization

  1. Chirag Parekh
  2. Chetan Kotwal
  3. Hiral Upadhyay

Abstract

Transformer is one of the most important components of power system. Preliminarily it looksa simple device but from analysis and innovative point of view, it is the big bank ofengineering, which comprises civil, mechanical, chemical and electrical engineering. It is thetime of taking challenges and respective solution of minimizing cost of transformer withoutaffecting customer specifications. This is only possible by design optimization process.Optimization is the process of making something better. Problems in engineering, economicsand physical and social sciences entail the optimization (minimization or maximization) of anobjective function subject to certain constraints (restrictions and tradeoffs). This paper dealswith modern design optimization of core type power transformers. Different methods arepresented to solve important transformer design problems.Keywords: Transformer design, transformer design optimization (TDO), magnetic circuit, noloadlosses, efficiency, sequential quadratic programming (SQP), MATLAB, TDO by iterativemethod
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