Overview

Find out about Essential Energy’s experience of using vegetable oils as transformer insulation fluids over the last twenty years.

In NSW power transformers containing vegetable oils as insulation have been in use since 2004. These are among the first transformers using this fluid worldwide, and so provide an exceptional dataset as there is not much data available in the public domain with this level of longevity.

Starting in 2007 this was Dan’s first post-PhD industry project, to evaluate the early life of these units and form a list of recommendations to update asset management policies.

Features

Highlights

Attendees will learn:

Now that these earliest units are starting to enter mid-life, this webinar will revisit their performance to understand how to continue to manage them, and any key differences from mineral oil.

A key overview of the presenter's experience will be given, to help the industry understand how to manage electrical assets containing these fluids.

Speakers

Dr Daniel Martin is a chartered professional engineer, and a registered professional engineer of Queensland, with over 20 years of experience in electrical systems. He has a Master of engineering project management from University of Auckland, a PhD in electrical engineering from University of Manchester, and a Bachelor of electrical and electronic engineering from University of Brighton.

He is a chartered member of Engineering New Zealand and a senior IEEE member. He is the Treasurer of CIGRE New Zealand and their A2 power transformers and reactors convener.

He is a senior engineer at Essential Energy, which is a state-owned electricity infrastructure company in Australia, working in zone substations.

Before, he was the innovation engineer at ETEL transformers, a manufacturer in Auckland, and has been a lecturer in power systems at University of Queensland. He was also the Director of the centre for power transformer monitoring at Monash University 2010 to 2012.