How does ‘designing-in’ permanent thermal monitoring of mission critical electrical infrastructure lead to improvements in the operational safety and reliability of acomplex oil & gas facility?
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kennedy, Ross; Mendiola, Michael; Thomas, Dan
- Source
- 2015 Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference Europe (PCIC Europe) Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference Europe (PCIC Europe), 2015. :1-7 Jun, 2015
- Subject
- Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Inspection
Monitoring
Reliability
Safety
Condition monitoring
Resistance
Electrical
IR
Infra red
Thermal
- Language
As the complexity of technology used in installations increases, some regions of the world may find it hard to source and recruit suitably skilled personnel. This can lead to a gap developing between the skills required to commission and maintain the facility and those that are available. In addition, this reliance on human inspection can lead to a lack of uniformity of inspection integrity across global sites. Such a gap can lead to a major reduction in the safe and reliable operation of the facility. To minimise this gap companies are using the extensive experience of permanent monitoring in rotating equipment & considering permanent monitoring solutions in ‘static’ electrical infrastructure. This paper will examine the example of a major O&G operating company integrating permanent non-contact infrared based thermal monitoring in the low voltage (LV) and medium voltage (MV) systems for a major project in Eurasia.