Elimpus and National Grid recognised in CIGRE best paper award.

Technical Director Phil Moore, together with Keith Williams and Mark Waldron from National Grid, presented a paper entitled ‘In-service circuit breaker condition assessment’ to the CIGRE Paris Session in August 2024. We are now pleased to announce that the paper has been awarded ‘Best Paper’ by the A3 (Transmission & Distribution Equipment) Committee. Phil Moore says ‘We are delighted to learn that our work on circuit breaker monitoring has been selected for this prestigious award and we will continue to work with our colleagues from National Grid to improve our expertise and understanding of this important area’. Elimpus would also like to extend their congratulations to Japanese colleagues who authored ‘Long operational experiences of medium-voltage solid-insulated switchgears’ (paper 11266), which was similarly honoured by the A3 committee.

View the CIGRE paper here

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CIGRE UK Technical Webinar: Monitoring of Circuit Breakers Switching Shunt Reactors

Phil Moore, Technical Director of Elimpus Ltd, which specialises in the condition monitoring of electrical distribution and transmission equipment, describes a novel monitoring approach that allows assessment of the health of the switchgear during in-service operations.

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Rapid Response Vaisala OPT100 Installation

With just 13 days notice, Elimpus has procured, supplied and fitted a brand new Vaisala multi-gas Optimus™ DGA Monitor OPT100. There were many challenges, ranging from securing an OPT100 from the supplier, to obtaining the correct materials to interface the OPT100 to the customer’s transformer. However, with the dedicated support of our partner, Vaisala, the DGA equipment was successfully installed and commissioned allowing our customer to make an informed decision on the health of their HV asset.

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Elimpus Granted Bronze Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme

Elimpus is delighted to have been presented the Bronze Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme at the recent Lord Lieutenants Awards in South Lanarkshire. 

The award demonstrates Elimpus’ desire to support our Armed Forces and recognises the contribution that Service personnel, both regular and reservist, veterans and military families make to our organisation, our community and to the country.

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Elimpus Commence Rollout of SF6 Monitoring Solution

Sulfur hexafluoride
Sulfur hexafluoride

This month Elimpus commenced a programme of work to roll out SF6 Gas density monitoring solutions for AIS circuit breakers in substations throughout Scotland. This online solution covers a wide range of circuit breaker manufacturers and allows asset owners to quickly detect and repair leakages of SF6 – one of the most potent greenhouse gases known.

For further details on how to minimise the effect of SF6 leakage through online monitoring see our Online SF6 Monitoring page.

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Vaisala OPT100 DGA Fully Installed and Commissioned within 12 Hour Outage

With just 2 weeks notice from our customer to supply and install an Online DGA, we were up against it. However, with the dedicated support of Vaisala and the determination of the Elimpus Service Team, we made it happen. Full installation and commission of a Vaisala maintenance free Optimus™ DGA Monitor OPT100 within a 12 hour outage window.

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Elimpus Attending ENI Summit 2022

ENI Summit 2022

Elimpus will be attending the ENI Summit this year at SEC. Come and join us at stand C5 to discuss how we can help you with your condition monitoring needs.

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Industry Expert Accolade for Elimpus at CIGRE 2020

Elimpus have been recognised for their presentation at CIGRE 2020 entitled “In-Service Diagnosis of Grading Capacitor Dielectric Deterioration”. The presentation picked up a ‘best paper’ award and was made by the A3 Study Committee, industry experts in Transmission and Distribution Equipment.

A copy of the presentation will be published in the CIGRE Science & Engineering (CSE) journal and can be found here.

Originally scheduled to exhibit at CIGRE 2020 and present the paper, the presentation was given virtually due to current restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was a novel experience and presented some challenges,” said Phil Moore, Technical Director and co-founder of Elimpus. “However, its been very worthwhile. It’s flattering to be acknowledged in this way by peers and industry experts. Equally exciting is the opportunity to share knowledge and the prospects of it being used for further innovation and development. It is our goal at Elimpus to turn knowledge into business as usual solutions that benefit the industry and its customers.”

The knowledge and concepts shared in the paper are already part of an internal research and development project at Elimpus.  Diagnosis in service of deteriorating dielectric is fundamental to preventing  potential failures. And its not just limited to capacitors. Technology for monitoring circuit breaker is under development and investigation at test sites within the UK. A successful outcome to the project would result in the availability of a monitoring device that can detect potential problems before they become unplanned outages, avoiding environmental impacts and costly reparations. 

CIGRE

CIGRE is a global community of electricity industry professionals. They are committed to the collaborative development and sharing power system expertise worldwide. The community features thousands of professionals from over 90 countries and 1250 member organisations and includes some of the world’s leading experts.

Elimpus

Elimpus provides condition monitoring products and services to the electricity supply industry. They are specialist in the detection, location, and online monitoring of partial discharge.

Contact Elimpus if you require more information on this subject, have specific partial discharge related issues or general asset condition monitoring queries.

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Elimpus Installs Condition Monitoring Equipment on National Grid Transformers

Supergrid Transformer

Elimpus has completed the installation of thermal monitoring equipment on several of National Grid’s supergrid transformers in the south of England. The monitoring equipment supports a joint research project between National Grid and the University of Southampton which is investigating the Condition and Climatic Environment for Power Transformers (ConCEPT) – an NIA funded Innovation Project.

Elimpus provides Partial Discharge detection and location services as well as managing the process of delivering specialist condition monitoring systems to National Grid’s assets infrastructure.

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LCNI 2019 Conference & Exhibition

Elimpus Stand

Very successful Low Carbon Networks & Innovation (LCNI) 2019 Conference and Exhibition at the SEC in Glasgow where Elimpus were able to demonstrate two current NIA funded projects supported by Scottish Power Energy Networks and UKPN. Our innovative use of radiometric technology to accurately detect and locate Arc Faults on distribution networks  (RAFL) will shortly be tested at the PNDC in Cumbernauld whilst our Energy Harvesting prototype has been successfully relaying meteorological information to a cloud server since February this year. No batteries or back up – just energy harvested from 400kV conductors. Elimpus are now looking at a variety of potential applications for this technology including line sag measurement, thermal rating and monitoring of remote cable sealing ends.

LCNI 2019 was also a great opportunity to update existing customers and inform potential new customers of our Partial Discharge products and services  as well as our Condition Monitoring system integration capabilities. 

Elimpus Stand
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