BIRD awards $900,000 for power transformer monitoring study
USA, New York: The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and an Israeli software development firm mPrest have been awarded a $900,000 grant to develop a system that can rapidly detect malfunctioning power transformers before they cause larger problems on the electric grid.
USA, New York: The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and an Israeli software development firm mPrest have been awarded a $900,000 grant to develop a system that can rapidly detect malfunctioning power transformers before they cause larger problems on the electric grid.
NYPA and mPrest will develop a power transformer monitoring software for deployment on the NYPA transmission system, and plan to engage the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) for research assistance, reports WNY Papers.
As part of the project, EPRI’s Power Transformer Expert System software will work in conjunction with mPrest’s Transformer Command and Control Software, which provides information on the asset health of transformers based on commonly available data such as dissolved gas analysis, name plate and other data.
The software will be tested at the EPRI Laboratory in Charlotte, North Carolina on a test transformer to simulate how it would perform if it was degraded or failing.
The funding for the project has been granted by the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation.
Source: WNY Papers
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