Progress in Transformer Dissolved-Gas Analysis

Dr. James J. DukarmFall 2019 Features, Features

Dissolved-gas analysis started out many years ago as a quick and simple test: Someone in the substation would briefly open a valve and sniff the transformer’s head-space gas. The pungent odor of a trace of acetylene would signify a potentially serious problem. By the late 1960s, it was possible to use a gas chromatograph as a much more sensitive nose …