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APRIL, 2019

Digital transformers
Thomas Buijs, Global sales manager transformer monitoring, ABB
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ABB Digital Transformers
A family of digitally enabled transformers

ABB Ability™ Power Transformer

• Natively digital power transformer for reliable and efficient power transmission
• Future proof platform with modular expansion and software upgradability

ABB Ability™ TXpert™ Digital Distribution Transformer

• The world’s first digital distribution transformer
• Brings reliable power to distribution networks

ABB Ability™ TXpert™ dry-type transformer

• Brings the power of digital monitoring to ABB Dry type transformers

April 22, 2019 Slide 2

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Advanced services
Reliability-centered maintenance – the evolutionary approach to maintenance
Time-based maintenance
- Maintenance actions are planned according
to time intervals recommended by the OEM,
even if they are not really needed
Condition-based maintenance
- Maintenance actions are planned according
to the actual measured condition/health of
critical components
- Component criticality and impact of failure
are not considered during planning.
Reliability-centred maintenance
- Maintenance actions are planned according
to the risk profile of critical components.
- Risk profile depends on component health
and its impact on substation availability.
- Failure Mode and Analysis Method is used to
assess the impact on substation availability.

April 22, 2019 Slide 3

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ABB Ability™ Power
Transformer
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ABB Ability™ Power Transformer
Value Differentiators

Reliable
• Monitoring & diagnostics in real time – avoid unplanned outages with early
warnings and prevention of failure
• Higher confidence on equipment integrity with condition based and predictive
maintenance
• Improved safety - Remote access and asset management capabilities minimizing
human exposure to substation environment

Efficient
• Turning data into actionable intelligence for optimized asset performance and
utilization
• Reduced Total Cost of Ownership - measurable business outcomes
• Dynamic fleet management and benchmarking

Future Proof
- New industry standard: Digitally integrated and ready to connect
- Modular and scalable platform with full ecosystem of smart devices,
software and service solutions
- Building block for digital substations, future-proof investment
- State-of-the-art cybersecurity

April 22, 2019 Slide 5

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What is the ABB Ability™ Power Transformer?
Digitally-enabled solution for power transformers, which can be augmented with additional smart devices,
software solutions and services to meet individual customer needs.

ABB’s standard solution Smart device options

• World’s first standard CoreSense, e-device portfolio (eVIEWER, eOTI, eSDB, eOLI, more)
solution for a
digitally-enabled
power transformers
• Electronic
temperature
monitoring (ETM) with
top oil and winding
temperature Software and services
information
• Recorded Monitoring & Diagnostics
measurements and Service agreements
data are translated ETM
into information and Digital solution as upgrade/retrofit
actionable intelligence

Vision: All power transformers delivered will be digital from the beginning
and unlock further customer value over the equipment lifetime by leveraging the surrounding eco-system

April 22, 2019 Slide 6

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ABB Ability™ Power Transformer
What are we monitoring?

Early Warnings
Short Circuit Monitored Parameters:
Mechanical
Faults Winding Displacement
Winding Looseness
Thermal

Partial Discharge Electrical

Electrical
Main Tank Faults Over Voltage/Through Faults
Mechanical
Arcing

Cooling Issues Chemical

Thermal Insulation Ageing
Faults Overloading
Overheating (eg. Improper Connection)
Cooling System
Bushings
Accessories
Tap Changers
Oil Preservation System

April 22, 2019 Slide 7

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Smart Components
Overview

April 22, 2019 Slide 8

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CoreSense™ – hydrogen & moisture sensor
Engineered simplicity & robustness

Flag incipient faults

Hydrogen and moisture in oil are important indicators that can alert you
to a developing condition. These indicators will not give you a precise
diagnostic of the underlying condition, rather indication that something
is happening in the transformer.

No moving parts, no consumables

Robustness was a key design parameter during the product development
process. We eliminated weak points such as the membrane that separates
dissolved gas from oil and removed consumables. To ensure oil
circulation we implemented a forced convection thermal pump with no
moving parts.

April 22, 2019 Slide 9

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CoreSense™ M10 – Multigas Analyzer
Engineered Simplicity & Robustness

Easy installation right out of the box

Without any external oil circulation loop, installation is as easy as mounting the
measurement head on a valve and hanging the analytical unit on a wall, no need for
welding or piping at site.

Built in redundancy - No consumables or maintenance for 10 years

Without any need for carrier gases or constant calibration, CoreSense M10 has
double and triple redundancies built in to allow the user to use the device for at
least 10 years without maintenance.

Space proven ABB FTIR technology

ABB used a technology sold for over 25 years in different industries (including for
NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, the European space agency and the Chinese
Space Agency) and re-adapted it for transformer monitoring. Allowing CoreSense
M10 to offer excellent measurement repeatability, no cross-interference between
the gases and no calibration ever in the field.

April 22, 2019 Slide 10

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ABB Ability™ Power Transformer
Upgrading all Power Transformers to be natively digital and future proof

CoreTec 4
Standard Oil temperature
Load

April 22, 2019 Slide 11

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ABB Ability™ Power Transformer
ABB Transformer Monitoring Eco System

4 - Together
Collaborate, advice, transform, re-think
Expert
Services Service Oil Engineering HV Training Consultancy Transformer
Agreements Analysis Studies Testing Inspection

3 - Do better
Asset Optimize, simulate, predict, automate
Management
Solutions
ABB Ability™ Ellipse® APM
Asset Performance Management

2 - Do more
Monitoring and Automate, monitor, control, secure, manage
Diagnostics
CoreTec 4

1 - Know more
Assess, connect, store, inform, measure
Sensor Technologies
CoreSense CoreSense M10 eOTI eWTI eOLI eBR ePRD eSDB
DGA DGA Oil Winding Oil Level Buchholz Pressure Self-dehydrating
Single Gas Multi-Gas Temperature Temperature Relay Relief Device Breather

April 22, 2019 Slide 12

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ABB Ability™ Power Transformer
A new era in transformer technology

ABB AbilityTM performs a comprehensive suite of cyber

security tests, including port scanning, network flooding,
vulnerability and protocol fuzzing – aligning with
internationally standards such as IEC62443-4-1. .

April 22, 2019 Slide 13

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ABB Ability™ TXpert™
Digital Distribution
Transformer
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TXpertTM The world’s first digital distribution transformer
Transformer innovation

Industry value

- Integrated sensing technology capabilities

• Top oil & ambient temp/levels/pressure/
moisture/hydrogen
• Voltage/current
• GPS/RFID
• Local Wi-Fi
- Local inference analytics
- Compatible with wide range of communications
- Can integrate with several software tools
- IEC and ANSI solutions available

Utilize distribution assets more effectively

April 22, 2019 Slide 15 TXpertTM The world’s first digital distribution transformer
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TXpertTM
Features and benefits

Key features Benefits

Stored measurements every 10 seconds: ambient and top-oil
temperatures, oil levels, pressure, moisture, voltage, current and
hydrogen for short and long-term analysis
Local analytics: consumed transformer lifetime, total harmonic
distortion (THD), expandable for additional analytics
Communications: Local built-in Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet cable
for downloading encrypted data
User interface: Basic configurator, download the data
update/upgrade firmware and set the parameters
Analytics: Real-time data measurements and algorithms outputs
Global positioning (GPS)
- Safety – significant increase in reliability helps avoid risks of
dealing with unexpected events
- Ability to collect, store and analyze time-synched data to
understand condition of assets and the grid
- Provides predictability allowing for planned outages and
maintenance as opposed to forced outages and reactive
maintenance
- Condition-based asset management, maintenance and
replacement prediction reduces overall maintenance costs
and minimizes on-hand inventory
- Avoids extended downtimes
- Allows asset position tracking (with GPS)
- No burden added to operations (wires, maintenance, etc.)
- Part of ABB AbilityTM

April 22, 2019 Slide 16 TXpert - The world's first digital distribution transformer
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Samples of different installations
ANSI and IEC solutions

IEC model (on transformer top) ANSI network model (on side of transformer)

ANSI pad mount (inside the cabinet)

April 22, 2019 Slide 17 TXpertTM The world’s first digital distribution transformer
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Digital distribution transformer
TXpertTM – Installed and commissioned in a variety of applications

Utility TXpert is available in utility distribution grids feeding several applications such as apartment buldings,
universities, houses, city centers, etc.

Industry TXpert is installed and available in an industry application feeding a factory for a large company in the
Food & Beverage segment

Data Center TXpert is installed to feed a critical data center

Airport TXpert is installed and feeding a major international airport

TXpert unlocks values across many segments and applications

April 22, 2019 Slide 18 TXpertTM The world’s first digital distribution transformer
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Industry values
Value for specific industry segments

Residential & Commercial Renewables Industrial & Data Centers Oil & Gas

Maintenance costs System efficiency Uptime Safety

Inventory reduction Network quality Proactive maintenance Environmental
Outage notification Voltage monitoring Safety Uptime
Revenue protection Revenue protection Environmental Asset management

Unlock values across many industry segments

April 22, 2019 Slide 19 TXpertTM The world’s first digital distribution transformer
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User tool and enterprise software
Flexible - wide range of software tools

April 22, 2019 Slide 20 TXpertTM The world’s first digital distribution transformer
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ABB Ability™ TXpert™ dry-
type transformer
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Today’s situation…
Dry-type transformers are the safest and most reliable transformers on the grid.

Eliminated risk of Lower total installation

fires or explosions costs

No need for oil

Eliminated risk of
containment or fire
oil leaks or spills
suppression

Lower ownership Less code restrictions

costs

Low to no maintenance No insurance premiums

requirements

Indoor and outdoor

Lower load losses installations

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But, we live in an ever changing world…
Though robust, even dry-type transformers will not last forever; externalities shorten life expectancies

Aging equipment Environmental forces

As electrical equipment naturally Natural disasters, changing
approaches end of life, they climates and electrical storms all
subject networks to faults and stress grid equipment
transients causing disturbances throughout their lifetimes

Distributed generation Increasing demand

Power is now flowing in all Growing need for AC to DC
directions, creating new converting subjects electrical
challenges for established grid networks to increased
networks harmonics and transients

External stresses are the number one cause of failure of transformers

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What if we could turn the unplanned into planned?
ABB Ability™ TXpert™ Dry; the world’s first digital dry-type transformer

TXpert™ Dry

Remote
ABB’s TXpert™ dry-type transformer ensures increased uptime
connectivity through reliable and ready to use data acquisition:
Local data
storage and
processing – Actionable intelligence: more complete information about
transformer performance that empowers smarter decisions by
maintenance teams (i.e. increased uptime and revenues,
minimized downtime)
Transformer
performance
metrics
– Cost savings: lower cost option* for ready-to-go data
Advanced
sensor array acquisition of current, voltage, and temperature
Easy to use
interface

Fan control 2-Layer Cyber

Security

April 22, 2019 Slide 24 *than traditional switchgear monitoring

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ABB Ability™ TXpert™ Dry
Additional features for ease of use and increased reliability

Fan monitoring Connectivity Certified Flexibility

– Standard fan trip, – RFID and digital
alarm relays and certificate protected
programmable for local WiFi signal to
auto exercising allow for wireless
connection and data
download
– EMI/EMC, IEC 61000- – Does not affect
4-X series for electrical transformer operation
and magnetic or size and works with
interference, most indoor and
IEC61326-1, IEC\EN outdoor applications
61010

– Fan monitoring – Provided Ethernet – Sensor package and – Capable of future

sensors to notify in the hard-wire connection processing unit does expansion for new
event of a fan motor for remote access not affect previous hardware and software
failure transformer upgrades
certifications

April 22, 2019 Slide 25

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ABB Ability™ TXpert™ Dry
Increased insight through data analytics

Included analytics Self-supervision

Actionable intelligence to Removes the need to
increase asset and ever visit the
operational performance transformer on a routine
basis
Available now

TXpert™ Dry
Fleet Management Lifecycle assessment
Monitor health and Provides accurate estimations
performance of multiple of when the transformer will
units simultaneously need replacement

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Data analytics for dry-type transformers
Ensuring long asset life and minimizing downtimes

Available with every TXpert™ Dry

– Loading profile & consumed life
– Voltage & Current THD
– Harmonic Loss factor (Coil AC losses)
– Power Factor

Increased asset utilization and potential outage

avoidance with consumed vs energized life
Reduced problem solving and downtime from
costly nuisance tripping with logged events
Increased asset intelligence for hard to reach
areas to ensure operation

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ABB Ability™ TXpert™ Dry
The world’s first digital dry-type transformer

Trusted safety

Actionable intelligence

Ultimate peace of mind

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ABB Ability™ Transformers
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ABB Ability™ Ellipse APM
Digital transformer asset analysis

Asset details and analysis tools

Assess fleet health by:
– Asset health history
– Analyze by sub component
– Issues automatically generated
– Send work requests to EAM
– Data trending and analysis
– Compare to family
– Duval triangles and other industry
standard analysis tools

Analyze details, check before you roll

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ABB Ability™ Transformer
What are the added value?

The benefits
– Easy optimization of asset performance and lifetime
productivity

– Maintaining control through early warnings and failure

prevention

– Modular, scalable design allows for cost effective future

proofing

– Measurable business outcomes and reduced Total Cost

of Ownership

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ABB Ability™ Power Transformer
Overload Capability Calculation (1/3) - Nominal rating (500 MVA)

Unit loaded at 100% at all time.

Ambient temperature varying

over time.

Hot-spot temperature under

limit (red line) even when
Ambient is high.

Aging accelerating factor

acceptable.

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ABB Ability™ Power Transformer
Overload Capability Calculation (2/3) - Operator-selected maximum flow (590 MVA)

Unit loaded at 120% at all time.

Ambient temperature varying

over time.

Hot-spot temperature above

limit (red line) when Ambient is
high.

Aging accelerating factor jumps

up to 5 when hot-spot over
limit.

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ABB Ability™ Power Transformer
Overload Capability Calculation (3/3) - Intelligent loading (maximum MVA depends on amb. temperature)

Unit loaded between 140% and

110% depending on hotspot
limit.

Ambient temperature varying

over time.

Hot-spot temperature kept

close to the limit (red line) at all
time.

Aging accelerating factor

acceptable with intelligent
loading.

Note that CoreTec 4 only enables the operator to do intelligent loading by providing the data to make informed decisions about overloading,
April 22, 2019 Slide 34
and does not actually control the loading of the transformer.
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Expert Service
Inspection of oil filed transformers

TXplore
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ABB Ability™ TXplore
System Overview

No bubbles would be generated in gas saturated oil

during an internal inspection.

4x Camera Pods Handlebar Thruster/ Magnetic Coupler

Main Hull Seal

Depth Sensor & Pressure Gauge
Status LED Indicators

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ABB Ability™ TXplore
Traditional and Advanced Inspection Comparison
Traditional Advanced

Disconnect

Drain and store oil

Connect breathable dry air system and purge

transformer

Assemble confined space rescue team Disconnect

Perform human inspection Perform TXplore inspection

4-10 days* 1-2 days

Remove breathable air system, seal
transformer and place under vacuum Reconnect and return to service

Reprocess oil and vacuum fill transformer

Set time and basic testing

Reconnect and return to service

Let’s not forget Health, Safety and Environment!
- Can reach zones “inaccessible to humans”.
- No longer required for personnel to physically enter transformer.
- Minimized environmental hazards ( i.e.: oil spillage, soil contamination).

*Subject to size of transformer

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Broadest network with +30 service centers and ~1,300 service experts

Service Countries
Americas
Brazil, Canada, Chile,
Colombia, Mexico, Panama,
Peru, USA

Europe
Finland, France, Germany,
Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, UK

IMEA
Australia, China, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, Singapore,
South Africa, Thailand

Lifecycle support for all your transformer needs.

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