This book focuses on contemporary economic, design, diagnostics, and maintenance aspects of power, instrument, and high-frequency transformers, which are critical to designers for a transformer stations. The text covers such topics as shell type and superconducting transformers, as well as coreless PCB and planar transformers. It emphasizes challenges and strategies in transformer design and illustrates the importance of economics in transformers management by reviewing life-cycle cost design and the use of decision methods to manage risk.

Part I: Power Transformers. Selected Problems of Transformers' Capability to Withstand Short Circuits. Insulation Problems of HV Power Transformers. Stray Losses, Screening, and Local Excessive Heating Hazard in Large Power Transformers. Superconducting Transformers. Challenges and Strategies in Transformer Design. Large-Shell-Type Transformers: Aspects of Design. Transformer Design Review: A Link between Design and Maintenance Stages. Life Management of Transformers. Power Transformer Acceptance Tests. Functional and Component-Related Diagnostics for Power Transformers, a Basis for Successful "Transformer Life Management". Sources, Measurement, and Mitigation of Sound Levels in Transformers. Power Transformers' Fault Diagnostics by Park's Vector Approach. Transformer Reliability: A Key Issue for Both Manufacturers and Users. Economics in Transformer Management: Focus on Life Cycle Cost, Design Review, and the Use of Simple Bayesian Decision Methods to Manage Risk.