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Condition Monitoring
For a comprehensive and robust approach to asset management, condition monitoring is a must. IUS offer three major diagnostic services - partial discharge testing, dissolved gas analysis and thermal imaging.
Partial discharges of electricity can indicate a fault which, if not corrected, could lead to catastrophic failure of the asset. HV equipment is particularly vulnerable to this type of failure. IUS can address such problems before they become serious by accurately detecting the nature and location of damaging discharges via specialist testing and detection techniques.
Dissolved gas analysis of samples from oil-insulated apparatus can identify gases including hydrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, acetylene, methane, ethylene, ethane and nitrogen. The existence of these gases can assist in identifying the condition of the equipment.
High resistance terminations and connections - "hot spots" - in electrical distribution equipment usually indicate a problem waiting to happen. Compared with the rest of the plant, they tend to have an unusually high thermal image. IUS can carry out a thermal imaging survey of your plant as part of a regular, non-intrusive check or if you suspect you have a problem.
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