Fig. 2. Wound-core transformer. (a) One-phase core type. (b) One-phase shell type. (c) Three-phase shell type. the stack core and the wound core. A typical wound core, shown in Fig. 1, is composed of hundreds of long continuous strips of sheet steel. The main advantages include reduction of joints and the use of the grain direction of the steel for the flux path. Wound cores are commonly used for distribution transformers with ratings that range from a few kVA to a few MVA. One- and three-phase wound-core distribution transformers are con- structed by using one or more wound cores assembled about a preformed electrical winding coil, as shown in Fig 2. Il. FE ANALYSIS FOR NO-LOAD LOSS EVALUATION The FE method has been used extensively by many re- searchers for the accurate field analysis of electromagnetic de- vices. A 2-D FE analysis approach used for the analysis of 3-D magnetic components was developed in [19], an FE analysis to validate a new winding design for planar integrated magnetics has been carried out in [20], and a coupled electrothermal By using (12) and the 2-D vector potential, the second left- hand term of (11) is given by Also, the relationship between the differentials of magneti- zation and flux density can be expressed by means of a tensor [16], [17]. Using the Euler scheme to represent the differentials yields The experimental setup used for evaluating the harmonic impact on wound-core no-load loss is shown in Fig. 3. The block diagram of the experimental setup is shown in Fig. 4. A 23-turn excitation coil was supplied from a single- and three-phase supply via a variable transformer (Regulac, type RQ 25-M, input: 240 V 50/60 Hz, output: 0-275 V, 25 A and Regulac, type RK8-G3M, input: 415 V 50/60 Hz, output: 0-476 V, 8 A) in order to magnetize the wound cores with a distorted supply-voltage waveform. A programmable ac and dc power supply (California Instruments MX30) was used so as to magnetize the wound cores with a sinusoidal waveform. Fig. 6. Percentage of higher voltage harmonics plot of deformed line-to-line and line-to-neutral supply voltages. SIMULATED VERSUS EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS Fig. 10. Wound-core simulated and experimental current waveforms under deformed line-to-line voltage excitation. Fig. 7. Phase-angle plot of deformed line-to-line and line-to-neutral suppl voltages. Fig. 11. Wound-core simulated and experimental current waveforms under deformed line-to-neutral voltage excitation. Fig. 8. Wound-core geometry and flux-density vector plot (wound-core width: 190 mm, electrical steel: M-OH 0.27 mm). Fig. 9. Wound-core simulated and experimental current waveforms under sinusoidal voltage excitation. Fig. 15. Phase-angle plot of experimental and simulated no-load currents under deformed line-to-line supply-voltage excitation. Fig. 17. Phase-angle plot of experimental and simulated no-load currents under deformed line-to-neutral supply-voltage excitation. Fig. 16. Amplitude plot of experimental and simulated no-load currents under deformed line-to-neutral supply-voltage excitation. Fig. 12. Amplitude plot of experimental and simulated no-load currents under sinusoidal supply-voltage excitation. Fig. 13. Phase-angle plot of experimental and simulated no-load currents under sinusoidal supply-voltage excitation. Fig. 14. Amplitude plot of experimental and simulated no-load currents under deformed line-to-line supply-voltage excitation.
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