When fully utilized, condition monitoring can transform how power plants operate and maintain their assets. It can lead to increased efficiency, reduced maintenance costs, improved safety, and better ...

Everyone who is responsible for pump maintenance has received the dreaded phone call at 4:30 p.m. on a Friday afternoon that a critical pump has a seal failure. All parties now go into crisis mode.

A typical Hydro-Québec substation showing only one of the installed grid transformers. Hydro-Québec has more than 2,000 grid and GSU transformers with an average age of more than 30 years in operation ...

Oil and lubricants play a critical role in the operation of natural gas and biogas power generation engines, for example, in combined cycle (CC) and combined heat and power (CHP) plants. The oil ...

Optimizing automated equipment condition monitoring calls for a different wireless network protocol than that used with process instruments. Manufacturers of all sorts have long sought a balance ...

Partial discharge (PD) is the name given to the partial breakdown of the electrical insulation in high voltage (HV) switchgear and cables. This is a destructive process and, if unchecked, it will ...

Industrial plants tend to rely on oil to keep things running. Whether utilized as a fuel or lubricant, oil is the substance generally responsible for keeping industrial processes functioning in an ...