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Doble Seminars:

Electric Apparatus Condition Assessment Using Laboratory Diagnostics

"An interactive seminar combining theoretical background with practical experience and examples."

Seminar Objective

Provide engineers and chemists the skills to interpret laboratory results to detect and identify problems with electric apparatus.

As the Provider of Knowledge Services for the Power Industry, Doble Engineering is pleased to offer seminars on electric apparatus assessment using laboratory diagnostics. This interactive seminar, held at various locations, combines theoretical background with practical experience and examples. Case Studies are used to illustrate the types of problems found in the field. All the subjects are covered in a one day seminar. A one and a half day seminar provides more depth and case studies on these topics. Two and three day seminars cover complimentary topics.

Course Topics for Laboratory Diagnostics Seminars

• Quality of New and Service Aged Oils
• Aging Characteristics of Insulating Materials
• Sampling
• Dissolved Gases in Oil
• Furanic Compounds and Degree of Polymerization Tests
  for Condition Assessment
• Water in Oil
• Metals in Oil
• The latest in OCB and LTC diagnostics and Condition Assessment

Discuss Your Specific Problems

Benefit from the theories and other skills learned during this seminar. Doble encourages seminar participants to bring their unique real-world problems for discussion. Send any specific problem you wish to address to us in advance to facilitate more detailed and beneficial discussions.
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What You Will Learn:

1. About the quality of oils available on the market today and the specification tests used to determine their qualities.
2. To detect accelerated or excessive deterioration so that oils
   can be reconditioned, reclaimed, or replaced before causing
   apparatus problems.
3. What effects the aging of insulating materials and cost effective
   means for reducing the aging.
4. To save time and money by obtaining samples correctly the first
   time. The quality of laboratory results is only as good as the
   sample. Avoid common pitfalls of acquiring samples, which are
   not representative of the oil in the apparatus or storage tank.
5. To diagnose apparatus problems with the valuable diagnostic tool, dissolved gas-in-oil analysis.
6. To assess the condition of the cellulosic insulation and
   detect the presence of incipient-fault conditions.
7. To determine how to correctly analyze the moisture-in-oil
   and estimate the moisture content in the paper insulation.
8. To detect contaminants and aid in locating incipient-fault
   conditions detected by other means.
9. To detect excessive bearing wear for oil pumped cooling systems.
10. To detect other wear metals and particulate contamination found in
    electric apparatus.

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For Seminars at your Facility, contact us for more information:
Phone: 617-393-2902
e-mail: labservices@doble.com

General Information:

Seminar Fees:

1 Day Seminar: $395 USD per person
1 1/2 Day Seminar: $550 USD per person

The fee covers the seminar materials, break refreshments, lunch on the premises (Day 1) and a certificate of seminar completion. We prefer enrollment in advance.

Accepted forms of payment: Cash, Check (payable in US Dollars to Doble Engineering Co.), Mastercard, Visa or American Express.

Cancellation Policy

If you can not attend, please notify Doble at least seven days in advance before the start of the course, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received later than seven days before the course are subject to a $50  late cancellation fee. Cancellations made after the course starts are subject to the full course fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course begins.

Seminar Locations

The courses held at Doble facilities in Watertown and Marlboro, MA are at the following addresses:

Doble Engineering Company
85 Walnut Street
Watertown, MA, USA 02472-4037

Doble Engineering Company
65 Boston Post Road W
Marlboro, MA USA 01752

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About the Presenters

Doble seminars are presented by one or more of the following experienced staff members:

Paul Griffin, Vice President of Services

Doble Engineering Company - Mr. Griffin received his MS Degree from the University of Rhode Island. He has been with Doble since 1979 and held the position of Laboratory Manager before becoming Vice President. Since joining Doble, Mr. Griffin has published over 50 technical papers pertaining to testing of electrical insulating materials and laboratory diagnostics. He is a Fellow of ASTM and a member of Committee D-27 on Electrical Insulating Liquids and Gases. He was formerly ASTM Subcommittee Chairman on Physical Test, ASTM Section Chairman on Gases in Oil, and the Technical Advisor to the U.S. National Committee for participation in the International Electrotechnical Commission Technical Committee 10, Fluids for Electrotechnical Applications. Mr. Griffin is a member of IEEE, the IEEE Insulating Fluid Subcommittee of the Transformer Committee, and the American Chemical Society. He is the U.S. Representative on CIGRE Working Group 15.01 Fluid Impregnated Insulating Systems and serves on several CIGRE Task Forces. Mr. Griffin has received the ASTM Committee D-27 Charlie Johnson Award and the ASTM Award of Merit.

Lance Lewand, Laboratory Manager

Doble Engineering Company - Lance Lewand received his BS Degree from St. Mary's College of Maryland. He has been with Doble since 1992 where he is the Project Manager of Materials Laboratory research and is also the Product Manager for Doble's moisture-in-oil sensor, called the DOMINO. He has also been a member of ASTM D-27 since 1989. Since joining Doble, Mr. Lewand has published numerous technical papers pertaining to sampling and testing of electrical insulating materials and laboratory diagnostics. Mr. Lewand was formerly Manager of Transformer Fluid Test Laboratory and PCB and Oil Field Services at MET Electrical Testing Company in Baltimore, MD for seven years. His years of field service experience in this capacity provide a unique perspective, coupling laboratory analysis and field service work