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    Transformers can be used in AC power systems but not DC power systems for power distribution because: 1) For a transformer to work, the changing magnetic field produced in one coil needs to induce a current in the other coil. 2) An alternating current produces a changing magnetic field that can induce a current in another coil, while a direct current only produces a constant magnetic field which cannot induce a current. 3) In HVDC transmission, the direct current is first converted to an alternating current using switching techniques, then transformed, and finally converted back to direct current to allow the use of transformers.

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    Transformers can be used in AC power systems but not DC power systems for power distribution because: 1) For a transformer to work, the changing magnetic field produced in one coil needs to induce a current in the other coil. 2) An alternating current produces a changing magnetic field that can induce a current in another coil, while a direct current only produces a constant magnetic field which cannot induce a current. 3) In HVDC transmission, the direct current is first converted to an alternating current using switching techniques, then transformed, and finally converted back to direct current to allow the use of transformers.

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    Transformer

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    Transformers can be used in AC power systems but not DC power systems for power distribution because: 1) For a transformer to work, the changing magnetic field produced in one coil needs to induce a current in the other coil. 2) An alternating current produces a changing magnetic field that can induce a current in another coil, while a direct current only produces a constant magnetic field which cannot induce a current. 3) In HVDC transmission, the direct current is first converted to an alternating current using switching techniques, then transformed, and finally converted back to direct current to allow the use of transformers.

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    from your understanding or research of electromagnetic induction, can u explain why transformers can be used in AC power systems and not DC power systems for power distrubution - Anonymous

    A:
    That's a really good question. For a transformer to work, the current in one coil has to somehow make current flow in the other coil and the circuit it's connected to. A DC current in one coil will make a magnetic field on the other coil, but a magnetic field by itself won't drive any electrons around. A CHANGING magnetic field, however, does create an electric force which will accelerate those electrons in the other coil into carrying a current. This process is described by Faraday's law of induction. You get a changing field from an AC current, since the current which makes the field is changing. Mike W.

    Follow-Up #1: transformers

    Q:
    YOU EXPLAINED THAT TRANSFORMERS CAN'T WORK ON DC BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT WHAT ID THE EXACT EFFECT OF A TIME VARYING FIELD AND ONE MORE THING IN HVDC TRANSMISSION TRANSFORMERS ARE BEING USED, WHAT IS THAT? - MAYANK (age 22) BANGLORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA

    A:
    The effect of time-varying magnet fields is to produce an electromotive force (EMF) driving charged particles around. The effect is described exactly by Maxwell's equations. The current in the primary of the transformer produces a magnetic field. When the current changes, so does the field. That makes an EMF which drives current in the secondary.

    I'm guessing that in the application you describe some dc current is chopped into an ac current (maybe by switching some contacts back and forth) and the ac current is then run through a transformer. It could then be converted back to dc by a rectifier. Mike W. (published on 04/07/07)

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