Heat Transfer Model and Analysis of Oil-Immersed Electrical Transformers with Heat Pipe Radiator

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This paper has formulated a heat transfer model for analyzing the cooling properties of a heat pipe cooling device of oil-immersed electrical transformer. Based on the model, the oil temperature field of a 30 KVA oil-immersed transformer has been numerical simulated, and experiments also had been conducted. Results showed that the numerical simulation has good agreement with experiment results. Results also showed that heat pipe radiator is feasible for oil-immersed electrical transformer cooling. The model can be used to analyze the oil temperature distribution properties in an oil-immersed electrical transformer with heat pipe cooling device, and provide theoretical guide for transformer design and improvement.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 516-517)

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312-315

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May 2012

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© 2012 Trans Tech Publications Ltd. All Rights Reserved

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