ELECTRIC POWER TRANSFORMER ENGINEERING

Transformer engineering is one of the earliest sciences within the field of electric power engineering, and power is the earliest discipline within the field of electrical engineering. To some, this means that transformer technology is a fully mature and staid industry, with little opportunity for innovation or ingenuity by those practicing in the field. Of course, we in the industry find that premise to be erroneous. One need only scan the technical literature to recognize that leading-edge suppliers, users, and academics involved with power transformers are continually reporting novelties and advancements that would have been totally insensible to engineers of even the recent past. I contend that there are three basic levels of understanding, any of which may be appropriate for persons engaged with transformers in the electric power industry