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Transformer Basics with TVA

#Chattanooga #Section #Transformers

TVA Transformer Basics

Lunch will be provided and PDHs will be available.

The OPTIONAL registration fee will go towards an IEEE scholarship. To register without a fee, please select "Register Only".

If not a TVA employee, please contact Ashley Commander at lacommander@ieee.org and arrive at 11:15AM to check-in

Good power engineering is a business of details. Transformers look like very simple wiggly lines on a single line diagram, and what they do is very simple isn’t it? Well actually no, it isn’t. There’s a lot more to a transformer than some windings, a core, and a steel tank of oil. If you walked by a 500kV transformer today it’s unlikely that you’d understand most of what you see.

Do you know the difference between a core form and a shell form transformer, and why? Did you know that operating a transformer reliably is harder than driving a Formula 1 race car? And a lot more expensive if you get it wrong, and how easy it is to get it wrong? Do you how TVA keeps track of what’s going on inside a transformer (hint - it’s a little more than a volt-ammeter can tell you)?