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Transformeroilcooling Industry Handbook p59

The document discusses transformer cooling. Transformers generate heat during operation that must be dissipated to prevent overheating. They are cooled by circulating insulating oil through their windings and core. This oil can be cooled naturally or using forced air or water in a heat exchanger. Forced water cooling uses a double-walled heat exchanger for safety to prevent mixing of the oil and water. Alfa Laval offers efficient air and water-based heat exchangers and pumps for cooling transformer oil.

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Transformeroilcooling Industry Handbook p59

The document discusses transformer cooling. Transformers generate heat during operation that must be dissipated to prevent overheating. They are cooled by circulating insulating oil through their windings and core. This oil can be cooled naturally or using forced air or water in a heat exchanger. Forced water cooling uses a double-walled heat exchanger for safety to prevent mixing of the oil and water. Alfa Laval offers efficient air and water-based heat exchangers and pumps for cooling transformer oil.

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Transformer cooling

A transformer is a static electrical purpose of this oil is to insulate and


device that transfers energy by cool the transformer core and
inductive coupling between its winding windings.
circuits. A varying current in the primary
winding creates a varying magnetic flux The oil is cooled either by natural
in the transformer’s ferromagnetic core convection or by forced air or water.
and thus a varying magnetic flux The cooling abbreviations OFAF (Oil
through the secondary winding. This Forced Air Forced) or OFWF (Oil Forced
varying magnetic flux induces a varying Water Forced) in particular indicate a
electromotive force, or voltage, in the need for heat exchangers. By
secondary winding. maintaining the oil at a low temperature,
a higher electro load is allowed in the by forced water (OFWF). The offering
Transformers range in size from transformer on a constant basis or includes:
thumbnail-sized units hidden in micro- during periods of peak demand.
phones to units weighing hundreds of • Air heat exchangers – AlfaBlue
tons used in the power grid. They are Intermixing of oil and water can be transformer oil coolers
essential for the transmission, devastating for the transformer. For • Gasketed plate heat exchangers –
distribution, and utilization of electric that reason, double-wall heat double wall.
power. exchangers are used as a safety
precaution in OFWF-cooling. Alfa Laval can also supply efficient,
The transformer core and windings are maintenance-free transformer oil
insulated in transformer oil, a highly Alfa Laval offers a complete range of pumps.
refined, low-viscosity mineral oil, which high-quality solutions for cooling
is stable at high temperatures. The transformer oil by forced air (OFAF) or A rectifier converts alternating current

Transformer cooling with air Transformer cooling with water

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