Abstract
The nature and causes of corrosive sulfur induced failures are examined in oil-filled transformers and shunt reactors. Copper sulfide, which is formed when the corrosive sulfur in a mineral oil reacts with the copper conductors, is likely to diffuse into the paper tapes insulating the conductors. Since copper sulfide is partially conducting, the dielectric losses of the contaminated oil-impregnated-paper tapes are markedly increased; paper tapes in close proximity to the copper conductors are found to attain tan delta values > 1.0 even at room temperature. It is highly likely that thermal instabilities develop at those sites at operating temperatures, leading to increased loss currents and, ultimately, short circuits between the turns. This sequence of events is substantiated by evidence from the field, which indicates large areas of thermally degraded insulations and charred breakdown regions along the coils, the extent of which becomes more pronounced at higher operating temperatures (toward the top of the windings).
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