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The random switching of power transformers may generate high inrush currents. These currents have undesirable effects, including potential damage or loss-of-life to the transformer, protective relay misoperation, and reduced power quality on the system. Controlled transformer switching can eliminate these transients if residual core and bias flux are taken into account in the closing methods. This paper explores the practical considerations of residual and bias flux transients, performance of control strategies, and the application of three-phase linkage circuit breakers to control transformer inrush transients, and a simulation has been taken to test its feasibility.
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Zhao, C. et al. (2020). Elimination of Transformer Inrush Current by Three-Phase Linkage Circuit Breakers. In: Liu, Y., Wang, L., Zhao, L., Yu, Z. (eds) Advances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. ICNC-FSKD 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1075. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32591-6_98
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