Voltage Constraints

Dear Abundant Amphibian,

At our monthly staff meeting yesterday afternoon, I made the presentation on our cable rejuvenation project and I believe it was well received.  I appreciate the information and PowerPoint slides that your most excellent sales representative supplied.

I did have one question asked that I did not know the answer to – what is the voltage limit of the process?  I am sending an e-mail to our department director concerning our project and the benefits of the rejuvenation process in general and I would like to include the answer to that question if possible.

John

Dear John-

The highest voltage ever rejuvenated was 115 kV.  As a practical matter there are not many solid dielectric cables at voltages above 115 kV that are not water-tight designs.  However, if there were we would love to treat those too.  You see the thicker the insulation the easier it is to treat the cable.  The rate of fluid exudation, that is the rate the fluid leaves the cable, is slower the thicker the insulation.  Our most technically difficult challenge is the 110 mil thickness 5 kV cables.  So there really is no upper limit.

In 2012 we will be unveiling new products to deal with lower voltage cables, so we will be able to treat any solid dielectric cable – any voltage, any non-filled stranded conductor.

Any voltage – any time,

Thermo

Middle East Query – Novinium References

Dweller of the Desert asked 22 questions in his post …

Middle East Query – 22 Questions.

In this installment I address question 7.

7.   Does Novinium have proof of success available (references)?

The institution of Novinium has worked for over 75 different utilities and industrial customers around the world.  That’s pretty impressive, but institutions don’t have experience – the people within those institutions have experience.  The masters of technology and the master craftsmen, who are the people of Novinium, have experience at hundreds of utilities and industrial sites on every continent except Antarctica.  When we work in January in northern Alberta Canada, it just looks like Antarctica!  Ask your sales professional for a sampling of where the Novinium team has worked.  Also check out dozens of case studies at www.novinium.com/CaseStudies.aspx.  Here is something else you don’t usually see, we share our lessons learned too!  Check those out at http://www.novinium.com/Lessons.aspx.  Want more?  We publish our overall failure statistics.  I provide those results nearby in a Crow-AMSAA graph.  The Crow-AMSAA plot shows an overall failure statistic for our collection of technologies.  The slope (β) of the line is less than 1, which indicates a declining rate of failure – a benefit of continuous improvement.  The overall success rate of about 99.1% is as good as it gets.

How about truly independent testing?  Novinium is the only rejuvenation supplier in the world that would participate in a NEETRAC side-by-side rejuvenation test.  The other guys declined to participate citing “business and commercial reasons.”  I am not entirely sure what that means, but one possible translation using frog-logic:  “We don’t want a direct performance comparison of 20-year-old technology against Novinium’s state-of-the-art patented technology.”  What do you think?

For now, Ma’a salama (مع السلامة/Good bye)

T. B. Frog

Middle East Query – Utility & Industrial Applications

Dweller of the Desert asked 22 questions in his post …

Middle East Query – 22 Questions.

In this installment I address question 6.

6.   Does injection apply only at utilities or can it be applied at industrial plants too?

Novinium injects medium voltage cables for utility distribution systems, utility power plants (non-nuclear and nuclear), and many industrial customers.  Check out just a few industrial applications in the collage below.  For even more pictures and more applications check out our happy faces injecting cables all over the world and at many different venues on the Novinium Facebook page.  As revealed in my post to your question 1, at Middle East Query - Treatable Cables there are a wide range of cable types and sizes that can be addressed with a tailored solution™ from Novinium.

For now, Ma’a salama (مع السلامة/Good bye)

T. B. Frog