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St. Charles Municipal Electric Utility, St. Charles, IL, U.S.A.: Strategic Prioritization of Cables
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- Cable Selection Criteria
- Creating a Prioritized Rejuvenation Plan
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Greenwood Utilities, Greenwood MS, U.S.A.: Life extension of 30+ year old cables
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- Sustained Pressure Rejuvenation (SPR)
- Vacuum excavation of splices
- Vault rehabilitation
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Hess Corp., New Jersey, U.S.A.: Old cables require attention
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- Application of rejuvenation in refinery
- Application of fluid injection in industrial plant
- Superb Novinium craftsmanship
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MEA, Palmer, AK, U.S.A.: Frost thrust causes cable failures
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- Cold weather issues
- Circuit owner certification in injection procedures
- Seasonal utilization of work force
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Hess Port Reading Refinery, perth Amboy, NJ, U.S.A.: Life extension
of 30+-year old, cables
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- Industrial Application
- Treating EPR
- Rapid turn-around
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Tanner Electric Coop., North Bend, WA, U.S.A.: Life extension of
32-year old, EPR submarine cable
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- Submarine
- Treating EPR
- N-Rex radial exclusion
- Post-injection failure and the Novinium unconditional warranty
- Testing cables with copper foil shields
- Copper foil shields in anaerobic marine environment
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Southwestern Electrical Power Distribution Utility, U.S.A.: What
happens when employees misbehave?
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- Values based safety
- Drinking & driving
- Novinium integrity and transparency
- Lesson Learned
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Salmon River Electric Coop, Challis, ID, U.S.A.: Life extension
of 15kV #2 cables.
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- Sustained Injection with all splices replaced
- Training of Customer Crews
- Service Flexibility
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SaskPower, Saskatoon, SK, Canada:Life extension of 15kV #1 URD
& 500 kcm Feeder cables
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- Optimized fluid usage
- Assured quality
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SaskPower, Regina, SK, Canada: Life extension of 15kV 500 MCM Feeder
cables
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- Conduit/Manhole rejuvenation
- Sustained Injection with all manhole splices being replaced
- Economics of treating feeder cables
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Large Electric Utility, Southern U.S.A.: Life extension of 35kV
1/0 and 750 kcm cables.
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- Upscale neighborhood with extensive landscaping
- Minimizing restoration costs
- Quiet operations
- No failures after hurricane
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United Power, Brighton, CO, U.S.A.: Life extension of 4/0 feeder
cable.
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- Feeder cable with numerous splices
- Locating buried splices with no utility records available
- Use of Time Domain Reflectometer to locate splices
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WIN Energy REMC, Indiana, U.S.A.: Life extension of 750 kcm feeder
cable.
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- Water in the strands has reliability implications
- Severely corroded strands can be reliably swaged to provide high-ampacity connections
- Installation templates improve craftsmanship
- Injection adaptors work with standard components
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Rocky Mountain Power, Utah, U.S.A.: Side-by-side “taste test” of
various injection methods on unreliable No.2 and 1/0 cables.
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- Side-by-side comparison of rejuvenation suppliers
- Side-by-side comparison of Sustained Pressure Rejuvenation (SPR) and Unsustained
Pressure Rejuvenation (UPR)
- Combination of SRP and UPR provides the optimum solution
- Single-visit – single switch™ process saves time and money
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Littleton Electric Light, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Re-inject cables,
which had been treated with older rejuvenation technology. The cables were beginning
to fail 11 years after treatment.
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- Re-injection of previously treated cables
- N-Ter™ -- Novinium Thermally Enhanced Rejuvenation
- Single-visit – single switch™ process saves time and money
- New technology provides extended life
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Power Plant, Texas, U.S.A.: Reverse seawater flooding damage from
Hurricane Ike
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- Power Plant Application
- Rapid response to natural disasters
- Water tight termination seals water out for good
- Better than new megger performance
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ENMAX Power Corporation, Alberta, Canada: Proactive treatment of
No.2 15 kV PE insulated URD cables in cold weather
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- Workforce utilization in cold weather environments
- N-Ter, Novinium Thermally Enhanced Rejuvenation improves injection process
- Ease of learning creates flexible delivery – Circuit owner, Novinium teamwork
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Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona, U.S.A.: Proactive treatment of
No.2 15 kV PE insulated URD cables.
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- Desert injection in thermic soil
- Component installation templates provide quality installation
- Productivity of team and technology yields significant cost saving
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Terra Industries, Oklahoma, U.S.A.: Proactive treatment of 5 kV
EPR insulated 1000 kcm feeder cables.
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- Industrial applications of cable rejuvenation technology
- Tailored formulation of chemistry to address ethylene propylene rubber (EPR) insulated
cables
- Problem solving Novinium team
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Saskatoon Light & Power, Saskatchewan, Canada: Proactive treatment
of feeder cables.
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- The speed of competing injection paradigms
- Experience considerations
- Standard components save time and money
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Homer Electric, Alaska, U.S.A.: Proactive treatment of unreliable
25kV, 19-strand, 1/0 cable
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- Formulation tailored to cool environment
- Circuit owner working relationship with Novinium veteran injectors
- Excessively bent cables
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Ergon Energy, Queensland, Australia: Post-failure injection of
substation inter-connector
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- Post-failure injection
- Injecting in very warm isohyperthermic soil
- Injecting very large 22 kV, 630 mm2 conductor
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Salt River Project (SRP), Arizona, U.S.A.: Proactive and preventative
rejuvenation of low reliability cables
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- Injecting in warm, hypothermic soil
- Water trees in the desert
- Sustained pressure
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Tacoma Power, Washington, U.S.A.: Preemptive rejuvenation of Ketron
Island submarine cable
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- Preemptive treatment of submarine cable
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Metlakatla Electric, Alaska, U.S.A.: Having experienced a failure
on one feeder and finding water inside the cable, this circuit owner wanted to prevent
failures on other feeders.
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- Bulk water in feeder cable strands
- Copper strand corrosion
- Leaky live-front terminations Leak-proof Novinium injection adaptors.
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Colorado Springs Utilities, Colorado, U.S.A.: Proactive and Preventative
treatment of 7-strand and 19-strand 15kV cable
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- Circuit owner crews can be easily taught to complete simple injection process to
save money
- Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR or Radar), an impedance streamliner (IS), and a Radio
Frequency (RF) locator allow splices and neutral corrosion to be pinpointed
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Public Service New Mexico, U.S.A.: Problematic cables rejuvenated
in Albuquerque
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- Cold weather injection
- System approach to injection – reliability assured with Novinium Certified™ components
- Safer injection paradigm
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CPS Energy, Texas, U.S.A,: Preventative treatment of 35kV cables
with large interface elbows Proactive treatment after application of on-line diagnostic
testing
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- Injecting in warm, hypothermic soil
- An engineering and implementation failure and how Novinium responded
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City of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: Proactive treatment after
application of on-line diagnostic testing
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- Tailored Delivery™ for modest reliability budgets
- Cold weather injection
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Inland Power, Washington, U.S.A.: Proactive, preventative, and
preemptive treatment of multiple targeted circuits
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- Faster and simpler treatment process saves money
- Environmentally friendly
- Recycle cable in situ
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EPCOR, Alberta, Canada: Proactive treatment of 15kV cable with
splices
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- Effect of strand compaction on injection rate.
- Costly replacement is avoided with improved injection paradigm. A greater percentage
of target cables are injected.
- 4-fold reduction in site visits save time and money.
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