Transformers are required to demonstrate the ability to withstand short circuit currents.Over currents caused by short circuit can give rise to windings deformation.In this paper,a novel method is proposed to monitor the state of transformer windings,which is achieved through on-line detecting the leakage inductance of the windings.Specifically,the mathematical model is established for online identifying the leakage inductance of the windings by applying least square algorithm(LSA) to the equivalent circuit equations.The effect of measurement and model inaccuracy on the identification error is analyzed,and the corrected model is also given to decrease these adverse effect on the results.Finally,dynamic test is carried out to verify our method.The test results clearly show that our method is very accurate even under the fluctuation of load or power factor.Therefore,our method can be effectively used to on-line detect the windings deformation.
