Monitoring of your high-voltage transformer data:

Observe and evaluate its health status in real-time

Your transformer is the most critical element of your energy infrastructure, vital for the performance of your operations.

The failure of a transformer can have serious consequences: operational shutdown resulting in significant financial losses, high replacement costs, and potential environmental impacts.

The laboratory offers to monitor, study, and conduct diagnostic assessments of the condition of your transformers using data from the monitoring system, ensuring proactive vigilance and peace of mind.

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Which transformers require data monitoring surveillance?

Non-redundant transformers

Your transformer is essential, unique, and non-redundant. In the absence of a backup solution, its continuous monitoring becomes strategic.

Transformers exhibiting a fault

In the event of confirmed internal phenomena such as partial discharges and hot spots, it is necessary to strengthen the monitoring of your transformer.

Recently repaired transformers

After major maintenance (rewinding or fluid replacement), closely monitoring the transformer is recommended to ensure optimal restoration.

Aging high-voltage transformers

Careful monitoring is essential for your high-voltage transformer that is over 20 years old and helps ensure appropriate maintenance to extend its lifespan.

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The laboratory can perform surveillance on transformers of all brands using monitoring systems available on the market. Subject to confirmation of qualification of the monitoring system by the laboratory's technical manager.

Our monitoring data surveillance:

the intersection of technical expertise and digital technology to alert and support you.

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Equipment selection assistance

For transformer, bushing, and tap changer monitoring.

Monitoring equipment from all brands.

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Installation of equipment and commissioning

Pre-qualification technical visit and compliance with Environmental, Health, and Safety rules.

Managed directly or through validated partners.

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Configuration of the monitoring system adapted to the transformer concerned

Alert thresholds, alarm parameters, measurement frequency, communication protocols, etc.

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Remote monitoring service provided by the laboratory

Choice of frequency: daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

Monitoring of key parameters: dissolved gases, moisture content, temperature, and voltage/current.

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Alert and alarm management

In case of an alert, be directly connected with a technician to diagnose the issue and assist you in making decisions.

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Dispatch of a diagnostic report, conducted by a high-voltage transformer expert.

The diagnostic includes interpretation of the device's condition, analysis of events, and recommendations for future operation or maintenance operations

Ensure your HV transformer is more reliable for longer.

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Reduce the risk of catastrophic failures by a factor of 3.

An embedded monitoring system coupled with conventional dielectric oil analysis significantly enhances fault detection, thereby reducing the risk of failures - CIGRE TB 630.

Comprehensive data provided by monitoring and its subsequent analysis not only prevents costly breakdowns but also enhances your transformer's performance and lifespan.

Regularly receive diagnosis and recommendations from a specialist.

The monitoring system collects a multitude of real-time data, enabling proactive detection of concerning phenomena.

By choosing our laboratory's monitoring solution, you can be assured that your transformer data analysis is conducted by an expert who provides you with precise diagnostics and recommendations for enhanced operation. This ensures you have regular insights into the state of your transformer.

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Make the right decisions, as early as possible.

By receiving more real-time data about your transformer, our team of experts can visualize the early symptoms of a fault and alert you instantly in case of emergency.

This provides you with faster and more reliable decision-making to initiate maintenance actions and improve energy distribution in your facility.

Learn more about our data monitoring surveillance service:

What parameters are collected and monitored on my transformer?

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The collected and monitored parameters are adjusted based on the transformer's condition. Monitoring data surveillance allows for control of several parameters such as dissolved gases, moisture content, temperature, current, etc. Gas monitoring varies depending on the chosen monitoring system, with some allowing simultaneous analysis of multiple gases (H2: Hydrogen - CH4: Methane - C2H2: Acetylene - C2H4: Ethylene - C2H6: Ethane - CO: Carbon monoxide - CO2: Carbon dioxide - O2: Oxygen - N2: Nitrogen - H2O: Water).

What are the costs associated with your surveillance service? Are there any additional fees?

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The surveillance service is remunerated through a minimum annual subscription. Its amount depends on the surveillance frequency, the number of managed alerts, and the number of monitored parameters.

Several subscriptions are thus possible depending on the criticality of the transformer.

There may be additional fees such as communication fees with your operator, or fees for additional investigative laboratory analyses.

Who will be responsible for monitoring my transformer?

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The Laboratory OKSMAN SERAPHIN has a team of diagnosticians specialized in data monitoring surveillance. The team enriches a knowledge base for each monitored device, allowing for the adaptation of transformer surveillance dynamics based on its evolving condition or operational outlook. It anticipates the risk of serious fault developments and proactively contacts you as alarm thresholds approach to jointly establish the best solution to implement.

The workforce ensures service continuity during default laboratory hours. Specific on-call solutions can be implemented if necessary.

Is there any benefit to monitoring the aging of cellulose insulation?

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The main advantage of monitoring solutions is to enable the monitoring of rapid phenomena that can occur within the device, sometimes in just a few hours. It is therefore a particularly effective tool for detecting electrical or thermal faults at high temperatures.

The tracers currently monitored to assess the condition of papers (such as humidity) are not exclusive to aging and may be biased by other external or internal phenomena. In addition, the aging of cellulose insulation is a slow process that takes place over decades. The benefit of monitoring solutions in this regard is low. Thus, laboratory analysis with markers exclusive to papers, and at an appropriate frequency, currently constitutes the most effective solution for estimating the residual life of the device.