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Prototyping a Ferrofluid-Cooled Transformer

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 1289-1298

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2013.2252872

Keywords

Electromagnetic analysis; magnetic liquids; numerical simulation; power transformers prototype; thermal analysis

Funding

  1. National Research Authority [21-043/2007]

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This paper presents the work conducted on prototyping a step-up/step-down, single-phased, low-power, and medium-voltage electrical transformer cooled by a fluid with colloidal magnetic nanoparticles. The magnetic and fluid dynamic properties and the heat capacities of the ferrofluid (magnetic nanofluid) and that of the regular coolant (UTR-40 transformer oil) were experimentally determined and comparatively evaluated. Mathematical models for the electromagnetic field and the heat transfer were defined and numerically solved to assess the capacity of the transformer to sustain the working conditions. The simulation results were utilized to improve the design of a prototype, where the UTR-40 regular coolant is replaced by ferrofluid. The numerical simulation results and the experiments evidence the superior performance of the prototype.

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