SUBSTATIONS R&D AND FAILURE INVESTIGATIONS
Areas of Focus
Services
Testing
- Type testing
- Chemical compatibility
- Tensile
- Compression
- Gas purity
- Melt flow
- Colour
- Physical and chemical
- Polymers, rubbers and composites
- SF6 gas (purity and decomposition products)
- Hydrocarbon characterization and testing (oil, lubricants, greases, fuels, insulators)
- Characterization and testing of alternative/non-traditional insulating gases and liquids
- Transportation of dangerous goods/hazardous materials testing
- Independent testing on conformance/validation of sensors, materials, etc.
- Coatings inspection, testing, and specification
- Mechanical testing of plastics materials
Studies and Investigations
- Thermogravimetric analysis
- Dynamic mechanical analysis
- Brine analysis
- Failure investigations, litigation, root cause analysis
- Identification of unknown materials, mixtures, chemicals
- Health assessment/risk mitigation of transformer equipment
- Kinetics and rate studies of chemical processes
- Online oil purification and processing
- Environmental consulting on utility-based systems
- Accelerated aging/weathering lab (UV, moisture, heat, cold, salt spray, full solar spectrum)
- High pressure differential scanning calorimetry
- Material selection and specification consulting
- Providing a method accredited for testing a product
- Insulation resistance
- Electrical permittivity
- Fault-type analysis of electrical equipment
- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- Oxidation induction time/temperature
- Indenter modulus
- X-ray diffraction (powders, surfaces and unknown materials)
- Thermal degradation characteristics of materials
Team
STUART CHAMBERS – Manager,
R&D and Investigations
604.590.6614 Email→