Summary

The reliability of the world's power transformer fleet has been reviewed. Of the more than 425,000 transformer years of operation collected, there were 1,204 major failures and 1,916 retirements from 66 utilities in 27 different countries. In addition to retirements and major failures, the age distribution was also analysed. As a result of increased emphasis on improving reliability over the life cycle, the failure rate has now fallen by more than half since the last Working Group. For all major failures, the hazard curve was fairly random with a slow increase with age.

Additional informations

Publication type Technical Brochures
Reference 939
Publication year
Publisher CIGRE
ISBN 978-2-85873-644-7
Study committees Power transformers and reactors (A2)
Working groups WG A2.62
File size 10 MB
Pages number 109
Price for non member 210 €
Price for member Free

Authors

S. TENBOHLEN, Convenor (DE),D. MARTIN, Secretary (AU & NZ)

R. ASANO JR. (BR), M. BUELLESBACH (DE), A. COLLIER (DE), Z. HANIF (DE), J. HERRING (IE), P. MANSKI (PL), P. PACHECO RAMOS (ES), C. PLATH (DE), S. SACCO (IT), K. SELEME (ZA), G. SUPRAMANIAM (MY), S. TEE (UK), E. TENYENHUIS (CA), S. YAMADA (JP)

Keywords

Power transformer, reliability, failure rate, hazard curve, retirement curve, statistical analysis

Analysis of AC transformer reliability
Analysis of AC transformer reliability