Mobile transformer test device and method for testing a power transformer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10775449-B2
Application number	US-201616062970-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2016
Priority date	Dec 18, 2015
Publication date	Sep 15, 2020
Grant date	Sep 15, 2020

Abstract

A mobile transformer test device ( 10 ) for testing a power transformer ( 40 ) has connectors ( 12 ) for the detachable connection of the transformer test device ( 10 ) to the power transformer ( 40 ). The transformer test device ( 10 ) has a source ( 5 ) for generating a test signal. The mobile transformer test device ( 10 ) has an evaluation circuit ( 6 ) for determining, based on the test signal and a test response of the power transformer ( 40 ), information regarding a B-H curve ( 50, 60 ) of the power transformer ( 40 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile transformer test device, comprising
connectors for the detachable connection of the mobile transformer test device to a power transformer,
a source for generating a test signal for the power transformer, and
an evaluation circuit configured, based on the test signal and a test response of the power transformer, to determine information regarding a B-H curve of the power transformer that defines a dependence of a magnetic flux density on a magnetic field strength in the power transformer.

2. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to determine at least one of the following parameters of the B-H curve:
a gradient of the B-H curve at a zero crossing,
a gradient of the B-H curve at a saturation point,
a knee point of the B-H curve.

3. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to determine at least one physical property of the power transformer from the ascertained information regarding the B-H curve.

4. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 3 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to determine the at least one physical property depending on a parameterization of a transformer model of the power transformer.

5. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 4 , comprising an input interface for inputting a switching group of the power transformer, on which switching group the transformer model depends.

6. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 4 ,
wherein the transformer test device is configured to determine the parameterization of the transformer model partly or completely automatically.

7. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 4 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to determine the parameterization of the transformer model depending on the item of information regarding the B-H curve.

8. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 4 ,
wherein, to parameterize the transformer model, a leakage inductance of a high-voltage side of the power transformer, a leakage inductance of a low-voltage side of the power transformer, resistances of windings of the power transformer, a saturation behavior of a main inductance of the power transformer and/or losses in a core of the power transformer are determined.

9. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the transformer test device is configured to acquire at least one of the following items of information depending on the B-H curve:
damage to a core of the power transformer,
the presence of an air gap,
an overvoltage resistance of the power transformer ( 40 ),
an efficiency of the power transformer.

10. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to determine data points of the B-H curve or at least one parameter of the B-H curve from the test signal and the test response.

11. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to ascertain a time integral of a voltage at at least one winding of the power transformer.

12. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 11 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to determine the magnetic flux density or a variable proportional to the magnetic flux density from the time integral of the voltage.

13. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to acquire a current flowing in at least one winding of the power transformer.

14. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 13 ,
wherein the evaluation circuit is configured to determine the magnetic field strength from the current flowing in at least one winding of the power transformer.

15. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 13 ,
wherein the source is a current source that supplies the current flowing through the at least one winding of the power transformer as the test signal.

16. The mobile transformer test device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the test signal is an AC current.

17. A system, comprising
a power transformer, and
a mobile transformer test device wherein the mobile transformer test device is connected detachably to the power transformer, and the mobile transformer test device, comprises connectors for the detachable connection of the mobile transformer test device to the power transformer, a source for generating a test signal for the power transformer, and
an evaluation circuit configured, based on the test signal and a test response of the power transformer, to determine information regarding a B-H curve of the power transformer that defines a dependence of a magnetic flux density on a magnetic field strength in the power transformer.

18. A method for testing a power transformer using a mobile transformer test device, comprising:
generating with the mobile transformer test device a test signal for the power transformer,
acquiring with the mobile transformer test device a test response of the power transformer, and
ascertaining with the mobile transformer test device information regarding a B-H curve of the power transformer that defines a dependence of a magnetic flux density on a magnetic field strength in the power transformer based on the test signal and the test response of the power transformer.

Assignees

• Omicron Electronics Gmbh

Inventors

• Klapper Ulrich
• Kukuk Matthias
• Engelen Christoph
• Flax Dirk

Classifications

• G01R31/62 Primary

  Testing of transformers · CPC title

• G01R1/0416

  Connectors, terminals (G01R1/0425 and G01R1/0433 take precedence; with measurement function for battery poles G01R31/364) · CPC title

• G01R29/20

  Measuring number of turns; Measuring transformation ratio or coupling factor of windings · CPC title

• G01R33/14

  Measuring or plotting hysteresis curves {(G01R33/1207 takes precedence)} · CPC title