Comprehensive Insulation Design Method of High Voltage Oil-Immersed Pulse Transformers

This article proposes a detailed method for the design of the insulation distances in high voltage (HV) oil-immersed pulse transformers, named the stressed oil volume scaling (SOVS) method. The developed SOVS method uses breakdown measurement data, which are obtained from a scaled down measurement s...

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Main Authors: Spyridon Stathis, Bastian Korthauer, Florian Krismer, Jurgen Biela
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11007597/
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description This article proposes a detailed method for the design of the insulation distances in high voltage (HV) oil-immersed pulse transformers, named the stressed oil volume scaling (SOVS) method. The developed SOVS method uses breakdown measurement data, which are obtained from a scaled down measurement setup (SDMS) by applying pulsed voltages of different pulse durations in the range of a few <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>s. The acquired breakdown measurement data are scaled to the pulse transformer, offering a methodical approach for estimating the pulse breakdown voltage with a defined probability of breakdown for the pulse transformer. The proposed SOVS method shows a significantly lower computational effort compared to the typical insulation design approaches for pulse transformers, and it is possible to be integrated within a general design procedure of oil-immersed HV pulse transformers. As an example, the method is applied to the specifications of the cyclotron autoresonance maser (CARM) pulse transformer, which is currently under investigation at the ENEA research center. Further, the method is applied to two already built pulse transformers in order to evaluate its efficacy.
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spelling doaj-art-c1aed31b05ab4b9a8e3b07f023ecbbe42025-08-20T01:56:48ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113895028951310.1109/ACCESS.2025.357198211007597Comprehensive Insulation Design Method of High Voltage Oil-Immersed Pulse TransformersSpyridon Stathis0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8476-4889Bastian Korthauer1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5619-8843Florian Krismer2Jurgen Biela3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9099-6486Laboratory for High Power Electronic Systems, ETH Z&#x00FC;rich, Z&#x00FC;rich, SwitzerlandLaboratory for High Power Electronic Systems, ETH Z&#x00FC;rich, Z&#x00FC;rich, SwitzerlandLaboratory for High Power Electronic Systems, ETH Z&#x00FC;rich, Z&#x00FC;rich, SwitzerlandLaboratory for High Power Electronic Systems, ETH Z&#x00FC;rich, Z&#x00FC;rich, SwitzerlandThis article proposes a detailed method for the design of the insulation distances in high voltage (HV) oil-immersed pulse transformers, named the stressed oil volume scaling (SOVS) method. The developed SOVS method uses breakdown measurement data, which are obtained from a scaled down measurement setup (SDMS) by applying pulsed voltages of different pulse durations in the range of a few <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>s. The acquired breakdown measurement data are scaled to the pulse transformer, offering a methodical approach for estimating the pulse breakdown voltage with a defined probability of breakdown for the pulse transformer. The proposed SOVS method shows a significantly lower computational effort compared to the typical insulation design approaches for pulse transformers, and it is possible to be integrated within a general design procedure of oil-immersed HV pulse transformers. As an example, the method is applied to the specifications of the cyclotron autoresonance maser (CARM) pulse transformer, which is currently under investigation at the ENEA research center. Further, the method is applied to two already built pulse transformers in order to evaluate its efficacy.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11007597/Insulationpulse transformertransformer oiloptimizationbreakdown
spellingShingle Spyridon Stathis
Bastian Korthauer
Florian Krismer
Jurgen Biela
Comprehensive Insulation Design Method of High Voltage Oil-Immersed Pulse Transformers
IEEE Access
Insulation
pulse transformer
transformer oil
optimization
breakdown
title Comprehensive Insulation Design Method of High Voltage Oil-Immersed Pulse Transformers
title_full Comprehensive Insulation Design Method of High Voltage Oil-Immersed Pulse Transformers
title_fullStr Comprehensive Insulation Design Method of High Voltage Oil-Immersed Pulse Transformers
title_full_unstemmed Comprehensive Insulation Design Method of High Voltage Oil-Immersed Pulse Transformers
title_short Comprehensive Insulation Design Method of High Voltage Oil-Immersed Pulse Transformers
title_sort comprehensive insulation design method of high voltage oil immersed pulse transformers
topic Insulation
pulse transformer
transformer oil
optimization
breakdown
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11007597/
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