1. TRANSFORMER OIL DEGRADATION STUDY BY CHROMATOGRAPHY, SPECTROSCOPY AND DISSOLVED GAS ANALYSIS.
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Meena, Reena R., Chaki, Sunil, Khimani, Ankurkumar J., and Deshpande, M. P.
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INSULATING oils , *GAS chromatography/Mass spectrometry (GC-MS) , *GAS analysis - Abstract
Transformer oil is a very important component of the transformer. The oil acts as an insulator and heat exchanger. This paper compares and evaluates the analytical observations of two transformer oils. The two transformer oils taken as samples for the study are; one a non-used transformer oil of the make year 1997 and another a fresh transformer oil of 2017 make. The transformer oil used in India is paraffin based having long chains of hydrocarbon, with general chemical formula, C nH2n+2. In the present study, gas chromatography - mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique was employed to determine the compositional constituents of both the oils. The Fourier transformed infrared (FTIR) and ultra violet - visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy techniques were employed to characterize both the oils. Dissolved gas analysis (DGA) technique was employed to analyze the oils conditions. The obtained results for the old and new oils have been deliberated and compared in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018