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Automatic Detection of Inter-Turn Short-Circuit in Dry-Type Transformers Through the Analysis of Leakage Flux Components

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Cruz-Ramirez, Daniel
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Zamudio-Ramirez, Israel
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Dunai, Larisa
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Antonino-Daviu, Jose Alfonso *
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Dry-type electrical transformers are essential components in commercial, industrial, and residential power distribution systems, as they adapt voltage levels required by a broad range of load types. Although they are robustly constructed, they are exposed to adverse operational and environmental conditions such as dust, humidity, and electrical disturbances that may cause premature winding damage, such as inter-turn short circuits. This study focuses on the detection of inter-turn short-circuit faults in a 15 kVA commercial dry-type transformer, where a fault equivalent to 11.54% of short-circuited turns was induced in the tap changers. Axial, radial, and rotational leakage magnetic flux signals were captured using a low-cost, non-invasive triaxial Hall-effect magnetic flux sensor. During data processing, Fisher Score feature selection was applied to identify the most relevant indicators. Subsequently, feature extraction techniques, including Linear Discriminant Analysis, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection, and Isometric Mapping, were evaluated. The technique that best preserved global and local data structures was selected using Trustworthiness, Spearman's correlation, and Kruskal's stress metrics. PCA was selected as the optimal technique based on these quality metrics, achieving the highest classification performance. The resulting subspace data were classified using support vector machines and applying K-fold cross-validation. The proposed system achieved classification accuracies above 95%, with high recall and F1-score values, for inter-turn fault detection in each winding, confirming its effectiveness for reliable inter-turn fault detection in each transformer winding.
Keywords:
leakage magnetic flux
inter-turn short-circuit
feature selection
feature extraction
support vector machine

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universidad autónoma de querétaro
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Universitat Politècnica de València
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