Research Article

Comparative Performance Study of Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) Methods for Identification of Faults in Power Transformer

Table 7

Fault classification based on IEC ratio codes [9].

Ratio codesFault identifications

000Normal
010Partial discharge (low energy)
110Partial discharge (high energy)
101High-energy discharge
102Low-energy discharge
001Thermal fault , °C
020Thermal fault , 150°C < Temp < 300°C
021Thermal fault , 300°C < Temp < 700°C
022Thermal fault , °C