Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design [Paperback]

Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design introduces a novel approach to transformer design using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in combination with finite element method (FEM). Today, AI is widely used for modeling nonlinear and large-scale systems, especially when explicit mathematical models are difficult to obtain or completely lacking. Moreover, AI is computationally efficient in solving hard optimization problems.

Many numerical examples throughout the book illustrate the application of the techniques discussed to a variety of real-life transformer design problems, including:

problems relating to the prediction of no-load losses;

winding material selection;

transformer design optimisation;

and transformer selection.

Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design is a valuable learning tool for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers and power engineering professionals working in electric utilities and industries, public authorities, and design offices.

Conventional Transformer Design.- Transformers.- Conventional Transformer Design.- Evaluation and Optimization Methods.- Numerical Analysis.- Classification and Forecasting.- Optimization.- Modern Transformer Design.- Evaluation of Transformer Technical Characteristics.- Transformer Design Optimization.- Transformer Selection.

Pavlos S. Georgilakis is currently assistant professor in the production engineering and management department of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He received a diploma in electrical and computer engineering and a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1990 and 2000 respectively. In his doctoral thesis, entitled Contribution of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in the Reduction of Distribution Transformer Iron Losses , he introduced the concept ol3e