The application of intelligent systems in power transformer design

The purpose of this work is to present a novel power transformer design methodology using intelligent systems. The methodology described in this paper allows the application of the artificial neural networks in some specific stages of the design. As it is well known, designing power transformers may be a time-consuming task owing to the large number of variables to be considered and their multiple interrelations, which are not all completely known. This novel methodology is, therefore, an important tool, not only for optimizing the projects, but also for minimizing substantially the necessary time for their execution, as it simplifies the design procedure. A database that contains the test results of several hundreds of actual power transformers is used for the validation of the method The design methodology is presented in detail and the results of its application are discussed in this work.