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Correct transformer oil testing is essential to condition assessment of the equipment under test.

Attendees will learn:

• Different aspects of sample requests, sampling, analysis, data transfer, data analysis and review
• How Web-based technologies support information chain of custody and integration
• Correct, step-by-step procedures to ensure accurate results

The ever present emphasis on technological efficiency is just one of several forces behind the pressure on companies to “go green” despite a trying economy. This seminar will cover aspects of technology used to determine whether a motor should be replaced or repaired.

Attendees will learn how to assess:

• Motor components
• Environmental factors
• Efficiency

This next-level approach goes way beyond compliance. Attendees will learn a simple, leveraged approach that eliminates the “us versus them” mentality and instills in the worker an internal desire to be proactively accountable in moving organizational culture to new levels of performance.

Attendees will:

• Learn how to structure and communicate with your employee
• Learn how these practices support and promote performance improvement
• Review case studies of these practices (including an 87.5% sustained performance improvement over a 30-month period)

The paper provides a brief background on Smart Grid and the benefits of Smart Grid to utilities, consumers, businesses, and industrial facilities. The paper explains the Smart Grid related responsibilities given to the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Attendees will learn about:

• The current state of Smart Grid activities in the United States
• Testing and Certification effort of the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel

This paper will describe a major 43 cal/cm2 arc-flash fault at a 3.000 ampere 34.5 kV motor operated air break (MOAB) switch that destroyed the switch and the nearby 3,000 ampere breaker. There were no injuries due to the procedures used to operate the devices remotely from a nearby control house.