Are you facing supply delays for oil-filled transformers and their parts? Discover how sealing can prolong the life of your current oil-filled transformer.
Are you facing supply delays for oil-filled transformers and their parts? Prolong the life of your equipment instead.
As the world becomes more reliant on electricity, the need for secure and efficient electrical infrastructure increases. Oil-filled transformers are an integral part of electrical grids but require ongoing maintenance to function properly. With OEM equipment and parts manufacturer backlogs causing long lead times and limited availability, it is critical to keep existing transformers running for as long as possible. Polywater’s PowerPatch® leak repair systems offer an effective solution to maintain and repair leaking oil-filled transformers while waiting for new equipment or parts to arrive.
Understanding Oil-Filled Transformers
Oil-filled transformers require oil to cool and insulate internal components. Oil can degrade over time due to factors such as heat, moisture, and contamination. Oil degradation lowers power transformation efficiency, increases maintenance costs, and can even cause system failure. These negatively impact the reliability and delivery of power from the grid.
The Challenge
The availability of oil-filled transformers and replacement parts today is limited due to long lead times and supply chain disruptions. What if you could inexpensively bridge the supply gap crisis by squeezing a few more years of operational life out of your transformers already in operation?
Stop the Leak with PowerPatch
Polywater’s PowerPatch is a cost-effective and efficient solution for repair and preventative maintenance of oil-filled transformers. This product offers several benefits that make it a smart investment for businesses.
PowerPatch is easy to use and requires minimal downtime for transformer oil leak repair. It can be applied quickly and requires no draining or refilling of oil. This means that maintenance work can be completed quickly, reducing the impact on transmission and distribution systems, and allowing efficient, uninterrupted power delivery to residential, commercial, and industrial users.
PowerPatch offers excellent adhesion and sealing properties that stop leaks to maintain the integrity of the transformer. The product is designed to adhere to the metal and insulation materials used in transformers, creating a reliable and durable barrier against moisture and contaminants. This helps prevent degradation of the oil and internal components, ultimately prolonging the operational life of the transformer.
PowerPatch has excellent dielectric properties that minimize the risks of partial discharges. It is compatible with insulating oil and does not impact the quality over time and exposure. With this repair, the transformer remains safe and operational, even in harsh electrical environments. Additionally, PowerPatch is highly stable and resistant to thermal cycling, ensuring that it can withstand the high temperatures and stresses to which oil-filled transformers are subjected.
Conclusion
In today’s world, where the availability of oil-filled transformers and replacement parts is limited, it is critical to ensure proper equipment functionality and longevity. Polywater’s PowerPatch circumvents supply chain delays and offers a cost-effective and efficient solution for maintenance of these transformers. By using PowerPatch, businesses can minimize downtime, reduce maintenance costs, and prolong the operational life of their transformers. This ultimately helps enhance the reliability and efficiency of electrical systems, paving the way for further upgrades of electrical infrastructure.
Want an easier install product than the traditional ground rod?
Try out the ConduDisc grounding system!
Instead of using the traditional ground rod that is time consuming and injury prone to install, try out the ConduDisc by SAE. The ConduDisc saves you money at installation, and even more in the future since they easily outlast traditional ground rods by many years.
This corrosion proof ConduDisc grounding electrode will give you:
Reduced installation time and costs from a 90% time reduction
Improved safety during installation, network maintenance and fault performance
Better asset protection and reliability by ensuring protection devices function as designed
Lowest lifecycle cost due to the elimination of typical maintenance and replacement needs
It’s time to replace those outdated ground rods with an improved grounding system: The Corrosion Proof Ground Plate with Improved Safety Performance, the ConduDisc!
TE Connectivity's Project Management Services Ensure That Your Underground Installation Is Successfully Done
Project Management and Installation
You can trust TE Connectivity's industry-leading experts to take on your toughest projects up to 230kV. From overhead to underground, anywhere in the Americas, their certified team will help monitoring cable splicing, terminating, sheath bonding and grounding, to ensure a safe installation no matter how challenging the conditions.
Single Source for Complete Project
TE will take your project from consultation, feasibility study, project oversight, installation, commissioning, through the delivery of the final test reports. Whether trenching or boring, we partner with your civil contractor crew to prepare the worksite, along with any required duct-lines and man-holes.
Their team of skilled, factory-certified installers will pull, splice and terminate the cable safely and efficiently to ensure the highest level of quality and installation integrity. Their project managers will take care of the engineering and manage the entire project to completion, within established guidelines. This complete project package ensures our customers receive a high quality, end-to-end service.
TE Provides The Following HV Testing Services
• Partial Discharge (PD) • VLF with AC Withstand • Tan Delta for Medium and High Voltage Power Cable Systems • Voltage level 46kV up to 230kV. We perform testing services out in the field for high voltage level
TE will prepare your operational team with necessary training to manage the newly-installed underground system - from basic theory to operating practices.
Outfit your entire line crew with the glowing logo package for hard hats from Advanced Visibility. It includes an American flag glow logo, a custom glow logo (i.e. your company logo) and a strip of Advanced Visibility's illuminating tape.
The glow can be seen hundreds of feet in a dark environment thus marking your workers more visible and safer as a result.
The Advanced Visibility Hard Hat Glowing Logo package includes:
Click the video link below for a demonstration of the safety benefits of the Glow Guard Glow Tape
For more information or a quote on any of the products featured in this newsletter, please reach out to Ryan Campbell at rcampbell@powertech-upsc.com or (860) 678-8772.
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