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What is the significance of vector grouping in Power Transformers?

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Question added by maha ahmed sayed elayat , تدريب , شركه سيمنز
Date Posted: 2013/10/23
حسام ناجى
by حسام ناجى , testing and commissioning engineer II , SENDAN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY

Every power transformer carries a vector group listed by its manufacturer. Fundamentally it tells you the information about how the windings are connected (delta or wye) and the phace difference betweent the current and voltage. EG. DYN11 means Delta primary, Wye Secondry and the current is at11 o clock reffered to the voltage.

Muhammad Afzal Sharif
by Muhammad Afzal Sharif , Deputy Manager , K - Electric (Formerly: Karachi Electric Supply Company Limited)

The transformer vector group is indicated on the Name Plate of transformer by the manufacturer. The vector group indicates the phase difference between the primary and secondary sides, introduced due to that particular configuration of transformer windings connection.

Importance:

The Determination of vector group of transformers is very important before connecting two or more transformers in parallel. If two transformers of different vector groups are connected in parallel then phase difference exist between the secondary of the transformers and large circulating current flows between the two transformers which is very detrimental.

Zahidkhan Hussainkhan Jummal
by Zahidkhan Hussainkhan Jummal , Instrument Supervisor , M/S Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KUWAIT)

The transformer vector group is indicated on the Name Plate of transformer by the manufacturer. The vector group indicates the phase difference between the primary and secondary sides, introduced due to that particular configuration of transformer windings connection.

Ibrahim S
by Ibrahim S , Electrical Maintenance Engineer , STLOP

Which indicates the connections of HV and LV windings of a transformer.

Mena Kamel Abdelmalak
by Mena Kamel Abdelmalak , Senior Electrical Quality Control Engineer. , Egyptian Union For Construction (ELHAZEK)

vector group is the phase shift between secondry and primary windings 

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