The July edition of Transformer Magazine is now available, bringing together interviews, technical articles, columns and advertorial contributions focused on resilience, asset management, monitoring, grid expansion, supply capability and the technologies supporting the energy transition.
This issue features an advertorial from Reinhausen, marking 100 years of the Jansen patent and the high-speed resistor-type tap-changer, as well as an exclusive interview with Dr. Konstantin Papailiou, President of CIGRE, on grid expansion, renewable integration, engineering talent and international collaboration.
In his latest Industry trends column, Mladen Banović explores the business power of research-based insights and the role of benchmarking in understanding market position. The edition also includes interviews with Dr. Karl Schäcke, CEO of ASTA Energy Solutions AG, on copper winding solutions and growing demand, Antoine Magnier, President, CEO and Co-Owner at SERGI, on physical transformer protection, and Dr. Naihu Li, Vice-President of CHINT T&D and Head of the CHINT Group R&D Institute, on Europe’s infrastructure supply challenge.
Asset management and reliability are also key themes. Fernando Melo from Siemens Energy writes about transformer refurbishment and industrial capacity, while Drs. Richard Heywood, Mohamed Khalil and Tony McGrail examine asset health indices, data uncertainty and decision-making confidence.
The technical section includes Vitaly Gurin and Marius Grisaru’s latest article on the statistical scatter of breakdown voltages of transformer oil, Bhaba Das’s article on why transformer size alone is not enough to determine the ROI of online condition monitoring, and Andrea Tonin and Fiorenzo Stevanato’s contribution on direct hot spot temperature measurement using gallium arsenide-based fibre-optic sensing.
The edition also includes advertorial contributions from R&S Group on integrated energy systems and the Interface Transformer, Sungrid on made-in-the-USA conductor solutions, and Qualitrol on why transformer monitoring is becoming a missing link in the energy transition.
