Network Innovation Allowance
ED - Network improvements and system operability
Asset Management
£573,282.00
The project success criteria are defined as follows:
- Successful installation of circuit breaker condition monitoring equipment and partial discharge monitoring equipment at 7 substations with a total of 96 panels
- Successful collation of data from installed equipment
- Production of asset performance reports to inform Maintenance Policy and asset replacement/refurbishment decisions
- Initiation of remedial work or other intervention to improve circuit breaker performance
- Improvement of circuit breaker performance in relation to Failure on Demand, slow opening, etc.
- Prevention of an incident relating to circuit breaker failure by triggering intervention
- Trending of partial discharge for specific circuit breakers and circuit breaker by manufacturer and type
- Establish appropriate alarm thresholds for each circuit breaker type
- Demonstrate trends in dc trip coil profile for specific circuit breakers and circuit breaker by manufacturer and type
- Establish acceptable profile envelope for each circuit breaker type
- Trigger post fault maintenance by I2t measurements
- Demonstrate the relationship between environmental operating conditions and the level of partial discharge activity
- Demonstrate the relationship between environmental operating conditions and dc trip coil profile