Participants will be able to go through the following areas during the VILT course:

Condition monitoring of power transformers through oil analyses:

• Transformer Health Index, Transformer Fleet Condition Assessment, Risk Matrix
• Best practices
• Which oil analyses/how frequent
• DGA: focus on partial discharges, sparking, stray gassing, catalytic effects / interpretation systems.
• Interpretation of results
• Why and when to perform electrical measurements?
• International standards: IEEE, IEC, Duval, ASTM, etc
• Maintenance guidelines
• Trending and reporting
• Sampling techniques

Use of online monitoring for DGA/water: implementation and real-case advantages etc:

• New developments: importance of methanol as ageing marker, temperature correction of ageing markers, stray gassing of oils in service etc
• REX, case studies and real-case exercises concerning power transformers within generation and high-voltage grids
• Discussion of reports on power transformers
• Use of unused insulating transformer oils
• Market trends in the use of inhibited and uninhibited oils
• Differences, advantages and drawbacks of uninhibited compared with inhibited oils
• Importance of additives, oxidation stability tests, stray gassing, etc

The VILT course is intended for a wide audience, including professionals who are maintenance staff, electrical engineers and asset managers responsible for transformers. Typical industries are powerplants, high voltage grids or large industrial sites.

• Basic or Foundation

The VILT course will be delivered online in 4 half-day sessions comprising 4 hours per day, with 2 x 10 minutes break per day, including time for lectures, discussion, quizzes and short classroom exercises.

Course Duration: 4 half-day sessions, 4 hours per session (16 hours in total).

This VILT course is delivered in partnership with ENGIE Laborelec.

Your expert course leader is a senior expert in the field of insulating and lubricating oils and of condition monitoring of power transformers and turbines. He has 20 years of experience within power industry and since 2010 Key Expert within the ENGIE group. He has worked on various international projects such as the Al Dur power plant in Bahrain, Shuweihat II power plant in UAE, PP11 and Jubail Marafiq power plants in Saudi Arabia and Sohar II and Barka III power plants in Oman. He has also been involved in consulting work in Malaysia for Hyrax Oil. Other assignments include Shell, Nynas, Total, ABB, Alstom, CG Pauwels in Europe.

To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized “One to One” coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster.
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