Cable testing
and condition
assessment
services
Advanced
Expertise
METSCO Energy Solutions provides
the specialized technical expertise
for cable commissioning testing and
predictive diagnostics testing for
in-service cables.
What Makes METSCO Unique?
• Widely recognized experts in the field
• Involvement with IEEE, IEC, ICEA, and CSA
standards
• One-stop shop: all cable testing services
available, online and offline
• Support with technical and educational
presentations
• Highly competitive pricing and value for money
Commissioning
Tests
1 Providing peace High voltage and medium voltage cables are factory-
of mind through tested, but the installed system includes several
independent third components which may fail due to manufacturing
party assurance defects, poor workmanship, impurities, or moisture
ingress along interfaces with the cable.
2 Detecting impurities
and poor workmanship The primary concern is the risk of catastrophic
failure during the initial energization, but defects
3 Avoiding catastrophic present during the installation can also lead to
failure during the first accelerated deterioration and premature failure
energization of the cable.
4 Increasing the reliability To avert these circumstances, technical
of the system organizations such as IEEE, IEC, and CIGRE have
developed standards for the commissioning of cables.
5 Establishing base-line
data for future Third party acceptance of cable commissioning
condition assessment testing is the preferred method to provide
professional assurance of the new construction.
6 Improving the safety
of commissioning
Predictive
Diagnostics for
Service-aged
Cables
When high voltage XLPE insulated cables were installed
in the 1970’s and 80’s, cable manufacturers and electric
utilities expected them to perform reliably for 25 - 30 years.
Asset owners are now discovering that the service life
of some of these cables was far shorter than expected.
1 Providing trending Typical issues that asset
information for owners have to deal with are:
accurate condition
assessment • Moisture ingress
• Jacket and semicon imperfections within
2 Identifying remaining the cable structure
life expectancy • Overheating
• Partial discharge
3 Prioritizing spending • Splice, joint, and termination leakage, tracking
on cable replacement and erosion
• Dryness of oil-filled cables
4 Determining cables with • Neutral corrosion
higher insulation loss • Ungrounded sheath or stress grading
as priority for injection
These factors accelerate the aging of insulation and
5 Validating post corrosion of neutral wires / tapes and cause water
injection cable trees and electrical trees. Asset owners face competing
performance pressures of an escalated rate of cable failures and
improvement a limited cable replacement / refurbishment budget.
6 Increasing the reliability Predictive diagnostics for service-aged cables is an
of the system effective tool to allow asset owners to allocate budget
dollars to those cables which are most likely to fail.
7 Avoiding catastrophic
unsafe failures
Testing METSCO Partial
Discharge SENSORS:
Capabilities
• Capacitor divider • Rogowski coil
• HFCT and PFCT • UHF sensors
• TEV • Acoustic Emission
magnets
• Flexible sheet
sensors • Ultrasound
microphone
• RF antenna
METSCO offers both online cable testing, which does not require a power interruption, and offline
cable testing, which allows for a more comprehensive range of tests.
Online Partial Discharge Testing Dielectric Spectroscopy or Dielectric
(No power interruption): Frequency Response:
• Online PD using High Frequency Clamp CTs • Low voltage DS for LPOF, PILC and HPFF cables
• Online PD testing using sheath sensors • High voltage DS for XLPE and EPR cables
• Ultrasonic probes
Offline Hipot and Partial Discharge Test: Fault Location:
• 50/60Hz AC Hipot for XLPE, TR-XLPE,EPR • Jacket puncture
• AC Hipot at 60 Hz or variable frequency • Broken shielding and neutral
• DC Hipot for PILC, HPFF, LPOF Cables • Insulation fault location
• Fiber optic breakdown
• Ultrasonic fault location
VLF Hipot, Tan-Delta and PD Testing:
• Sinusoidal VLF and Cosine rectangular VLF
• PD together with VLF Hipot
• Tan-Delta together with Hipot
CONTACT US
Suite 215; 2550 Matheson Blvd. East,
Mississauga, ON, L4W 4Z1, Canada
Phone: 905-232-7300
Fax: 905-232-7405
Email:
[email protected]Website: metsco.ca
ALI NADERIAN Phone: +1-905-232-7300 X 221
Cell: +1-647-300-8836
PhD, PEng, SMIEEE Email:
[email protected]Director-High Voltage Testing Services
• 15 years’ experience in high voltage testing, diagnostics, and condition
assessment of cables and substation equipment
• Designed and performed cable testing programs for manufacturers and utilities in the past 10 years
• Chair of IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation, Ontario section since 2014
• Chair of IEEE WG C57.161,“Guide for Dielectric Frequency Response Testing”
• Author of more than 50 technical papers published by IEEE conferences and CIGRE
• Author/Reviewer of more than 50 reports on root cause failure of medium voltage and high voltage
cables and more than 100 reports on cable testing for power utilities
• Project manager of several factory acceptance testing of HV cables and accessories
JOHN DENSLEY
PhD, Fellow IEEE
Associate-High Voltage Testing Services
• 37 years’ world class experience in diagnostics and condition
assessment of cables
• Published over 100 research papers on insulation systems, delivered more than 50 technical
presentations including seminars, workshops, and professional development courses
• Recipient of IEEE Canada Power Medal “for contributions to the understanding and diagnosis of
power cable problems”, 2010
• Chairman of IEEE ICC Working Group : IEEE Std 400.2 VLF Testing of Cables
• Chairman of ICC Discussion Group A3 “Performance of Extruded Dielectrics”,1994 – 2003
• Recipient of IEEE Third Millennium Medal , 2000
• Editor in Chief IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine , 2002 – 2008.
