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Length of tank 7. 64 7. 97 7. 86
Upper and lower tank
Width of tank 2. 57 2. 68 2. 64
(Upper/Lower tank)
Height of tank (Upper/Lower) 2. 62 I 0. 577 2. 72 I 0. 577 2. 75/0.577
Table IV
Comparisons of experimental displacement and calculation displacement (Experimental value / Computational value)
Model C: Model C:
Model A: Model A: Model B: Model B:
Test points Negative Positive
Negative pressure/mm Positive pressure/mm Negative pressure/mm Positive pressure/mm
pressure/mm pressure/mm
3/1. 0 3/1. 0 211. 4 2/1. 3 2/1. 4 2/1. 3
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C. Experiment and method validation Pij =rp·Pij+(1-rp)·qi'rp=rand(O,l) (3)
Experiments are carried out to get the deformation data of
three 220kV oil-immersed tanks under both positive pressure X
Ij -
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and negative pressure. For each tank, 19 displacement sensors where Mbes! is the mean best position among the particles, <p is
are fixed to the points shown in Fig. 1. a random number distributed uniformly on [0,1], a is a
Two sets of experimental data are used to fix the spring parameter of QPSO called Contraction-Expansion Coefficient.
stiffness. Adjust the spring stiffness to minimize the mean The algorithm would be convergence if a<1.781[8]. Xi , Pi
square error (as formula 1) between computation displacement and Pbest denote the position of the particles, the history best
and experimental displacement. The best set of calculated position of each particle and the best position of all particles.
stiffness is shown in table I. T
i=! (6)
Table I
SPRINGS' STIFFNESS �esl =[QpQ2,·..,QDf (7)
The tank ribs optimization routine is described as follows:
5.30e6 6.40e7 5.91e8 9.37e8 3.12e9
(1) Each particle represents a solution of tank rib design.
To validate the spring stiffness, the third experimental set of
Initialize an array of particles with random position inside the
data is used to be compared with the computation results of the
problem space. Initialize the mean best position, population
3D-FEM mechanical property analysis routine with the fixed
size, particle dimension and the stop criterion (iteration times).
springs' stiffness. The comparisons show that, the mean square
(2) Based on the FEM routine developed in this paper,
error of 19 points' displacement between calculation results
calculate the displacement under the load of air pressure, and
and experimental results are less than 2.7mm. The tanks'
keep the information of displacement and Mise stress;
structure parameters are shown in table II. The experimental
(3) Evaluate the fitness of each particle, update the
data and computerized data are shown in table III. The three
matrixes X, P and Pbest, generate the new particle generation;
tanks are denoted as tank A, B and C.
(4) Loop until the stop criterion is met and output the
The tank mechanical property analysis software (TMA)
solution Pbes!' Usually the stop criterion could be a sufficiently
developed by the proposed method is already applied in a
good fitness or a maximum number of iterations, the latter is
transformer manufacturing factory. It is also used to optimize
adopted in this paper.
the tank design presented in section III.
A certain type of tank used in a transformer factory is
optimized with the proposed optimization technique. The
III. POWER TRANSFORMER TANK DESIGN OPTIMIZATION
comparisons of the original rib design and the optimized rib
In this paper, the aim of transformer tank design design is shown in table II. Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 shows the
optimization is to fmd the lowest cost solution of structural displacement and Mises stress of the tank under positive
parameters of ribs, constrained to tank industrial standards. pressure of 1.01e5 Pa. There is a 31.7 % reduction of ribs
Since different structure parameters of tanks, labor costs mass, while the displacement and Mises stress meet the
remain almost the same. So objective function can be the mechanical constraints of industrial standards.
minimization of ribs material cost, denoted as j{x t , Xb ..., xn). Table II
Variables consist of structure parameters of rib number, COMPARISONS OF ORIGINAL RIBS AND OPTIMIZED RIBS
thickness, height, Structure Parameters Original value Optimized value
Constrains consist of displacement constrain and strength Width 200mm 220mm
constrain under the load of 1.01e5Pa: the maximum Ribs Height 125mm II0mm
displacement d(x\, Xb ..., xu) and the Mises stress o(x\, Xb ... , (Long edge 1 Thickness 8mm 8mm
xu) must be less than the value defmed by industrial standards. short edge ) Interval 480 / 510 mm 600 / 660 mm
In 2004, Sun et a1. Introduced quantum theory into PSO and Number 9/3 7/2
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In QPSO, the particles move according to the following presented by the calculation cases. Some suggestions are
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control equation: provided for tank manufacturing factories. The technique
1 N 1 N 1 N (2) proposed can be used to any kinds of transformer tank.
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