Sandia National Laboratories | California
Security & Privacy
| June 21, 2001 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Project seeks automated state-of-health
LIVERMORE, Calif. – An early-warning signal of transformer trouble is being researched at Sandia National Laboratories in a project funded by EPRI, the collaborative science and technology development organization for the power industry.
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MICHAEL JACKSON, ARE YOU OK? -- team of
robots from Sandia National Laboratories demonstrate how their computer
program would help rescuers quickly locate a skier buried under
an avalanche. The photo is staged. (Photo by Randy
Montoya)
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Electricity follows a complex path from its generation at power plants to its use in our homes. Along the way it undergoes changes in voltage, stepping up to the thousands of volts needed for efficient transmission and finally stepping down to the typical 110 volts at house wall outlets. An important component in this network is power transformers, which change the voltage at points along the grid. The tool under development at Sandia should help keep power transformers reliable.
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