The amorphous iron core is made by cutting, forming, heat treatment and the like of the amorphous ribbon, and is the core component of the amorphous alloy transformer. Compared with traditional silicon steel transformers, amorphous alloy transformers have low loss and high magnetic permeability,.
The big benefit of amorphous transformers is that amorphous steel has lower hysteresis losses. Simply put this means that less energy is wasted as heat during magnetisation and de-magnetization of the core:
o Less no-load losses: No load losses are 20 to 30% less as compared to a conventional silicon steel sheet transformer which keeps occurring for the lifetime despite transformer load.
o Easy repair: its modular construction makes repair easy and fast.
o Better overload capacity: Overload capacity is better as heat generation is less due to less loss and obviously less effect on aging of insulation.
o Better distribution efficiency: distributions efficiency increases due to reduced no-load loss.This can save monetary investments in generations capacity concern.
o Environmental caretaker: Also contributes to the protection of the environment as it lowers the emission of CO2 and SO2 as result of reduced generation need.
