Electric transformer assembly, method for determining a thermal state of an electric transformer, and determination device

    公开(公告)号:US12080461B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US17844294

    申请日:2022-06-20

    摘要: A transformer assembly includes an electric transformer, a temperature sensor system, and a computation unit for determining a thermal state of the electric transformer. The electric transformer includes a cooling device having at least one liquid coolant channel to absorb exhaust heat from the electric transformer, a heat spreader for transferring heat from the liquid coolant to a heat dissipation surface of the heat spreader, and an air blower configured to effect an airstream along the heat dissipation surface. The temperature sensor system includes an entering coolant sensor for providing an entering coolant temperature signal, a leaving coolant sensor for providing a leaving coolant temperature signal, an entering airstream sensor providing an entering airstream temperature signal, and a leaving airstream sensor providing a leaving airstream temperature signal. The computation unit is configured to determine a thermal state of the transformer.

    Open phase detection
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12066502B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17502819

    申请日:2021-10-15

    申请人: Caterpillar Inc.

    IPC分类号: G01R31/62 H02H1/00 H02H7/04

    CPC分类号: G01R31/62 H02H1/0007 H02H7/04

    摘要: An example transformer includes a controller that determines the currents on a power grid side of the transformer, as well as an inverter/load side of the transformer. The transformer may be of a delta-wye configuration. The controller compares the currents on the delta side of the transformer to the currents on the wye side of the transformer to determine whether the currents on either side are imbalanced. If the currents on the delta side are balanced, while the currents on the wye side are imbalanced, then the controller may determine that an open phase condition exists on the wye side of the transformer. Alternatively, if the currents on the delta side are imbalanced or if the currents on the delta side are balanced and the currents on the wye side are also balanced, then the controller determines that no open phase condition exists.

    System and method for measuring transformer hot-spot temperature

    公开(公告)号:US12000906B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-04

    申请号:US17459870

    申请日:2021-08-27

    IPC分类号: G01R31/62 G01K11/24 G01K13/00

    CPC分类号: G01R31/62 G01K11/24 G01K13/00

    摘要: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for measuring hot-spot temperature of a transformer, wherein the measurement system comprises a processor, an oscilloscope and a plurality of ultrasonic sensors, wherein the ultrasonic sensors are oppositely arranged on an outer wall of a transformer oil tank and electrically connected with the oscilloscope, and the oscilloscope is electrically connected with the processor; the ultrasonic sensors receive signals transmitted by the oppositely arranged ultrasonic sensors and transmit them to the oscilloscope. The method, by applying an ultrasonic wave to measure the hot-spot temperature of a transformer in real time, solves the problems that methods in the prior art are susceptible to the external environment, have short service life and cannot correctly measure the internal temperature of the transformer.

    Device for determining an error probability value for a transformer component and a system having such a device

    公开(公告)号:US11899075B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-13

    申请号:US18003351

    申请日:2021-07-02

    发明人: Alexander Alber

    IPC分类号: G01R31/62

    CPC分类号: G01R31/62

    摘要: A device for determining an error probability value for a transformer component, including a signal input interface, a processor unit, and a storage unit, wherein the signal input interface is configured for direct or indirect coupling to a measurement system for a power transformer, the measurement system having multiple sensors that are each designed to record a physical and/or chemical property of the power transformer, the power transformer having multiple transformer components, and each sensor being coupled to at least one of the transformer components of the power transformer by way of a respective related direct or indirect connection, wherein the physical and/or chemical property of the power transformer recorded by the respective sensor is influenced by at least one of the transformer components, wherein the signal input interface is configured to receive a status signal of the measurement system, the status signal representing multiple, different status variables.

    System, method and device for monitoring the sealing of electrical equipment and electrical equipment with monitored sealing

    公开(公告)号:US11867772B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-09

    申请号:US17608125

    申请日:2020-04-22

    IPC分类号: G01R31/62 G08B21/20

    CPC分类号: G01R31/62 G08B21/20

    摘要: A monitoring system, method, and device for sealing electrical equipment (10) and electrical equipment (10) with monitored sealing, including at least one sensor set (100), at least one signaling system (15) and at least one drying system (300), wherein the sensor set (100) includes at least one moisture sensor (20) and at least one liquid presence sensor (25) connected to at least one centralizing element (30), wherein the centralizing element (30) is configured to receive data from at least the sensors and generate outputs corresponding thereto, defining the type of liquid in contact with a sensor, assessing the integrity of the sealing system, and detecting the loss of efficiency of the drying system (300). The system may be configured to detect trends and automatically generate alarms and recommendations, mitigating the from inspections of sealing systems on electrical equipment (10) while enhancing the reliability of the operation, lowering costs and enhancing safety and security.

    DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR INDIRECTLY DETERMINING THE TEMPERATURE OF A POWER TRANSFORMER

    公开(公告)号:US20230305080A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-28

    申请号:US18246515

    申请日:2021-09-03

    IPC分类号: G01R31/62

    CPC分类号: G01R31/62

    摘要: A model of a power transformer describes a transfer behavior for input data into output data as a function of model parameters. In successive time windows, measurement dataset is received from first and second sensors of the power transformer. The model parameters are optimized by executing, for each of the time windows, the following group of steps a) to c), repeatedly: a) determining the output of the model using the input data defined by first sensor data, for the first execution of predefined parameters are used; b) determining a target value, which includes at least one squared error, weighted by a first weighting factor, the squared error is between the second sensor data from the measurement dataset assigned to the given time window and a previously determined output data, and c) determining optimization parameters as new model parameters based on the target value.