Gas distribution system is a production complex, which part of the gas supply and consists organizational economically interconnected facilities designed to organize directly consumers. On national basis formed by about 67.0 thousand km external pipelines, 28.0 are underground steel pipelines. As potentially hazardous objects, pipelines subject higher requirements for corrosion protection. rule...

Buildings account for a significant portion of a nation’s total energy consumption. To meet the global demand for greater energy efficiency, many countries are drastically strengthening insulation regulations for buildings. Thus, dramatically thicker wall insulation may be required, which can adversely affect the value of a building by reducing its effective floor area. Hence, high-performance ...

There are many reasons for over voltages in power system. The overvoltage causes number of effect in the power system. It may cause insulation failure of the equipments, malfunction of the equipments. Overvoltage can cause damage to components connected to the power supply and lead to insulation failure, damage to electronic components, heating, flashovers, etc. Over voltages occur in a system ...

Temperature, relative humidity and overhygroscopic moisture fields in a sandstone wall provided with interior thermal insulation were calculated in order to assess the hygric performance of the retrofitted wall. Computational simulations showed that during the time period of 10 years which was subject of investigation no overhygroscopic moisture appeared in the analyzed building envelope so tha...

High-voltage transformers are among the most important elements in an electric-power system. Each one of them is affected by various external factors: overvoltage, partial discharge (PD), overheating, vibrations, etc., which created a strong electric field, thermal effect, humidity, impurities, factory defects, dissolved water and gas oil-type-transformer insulation. These other factors, caused...

In high-voltage (HV) power equipment, degradation of insulation has been main concern for protection of equipment. This is due to occurrence of partial discharges (PD) activity within HV insulating systems which can be initiated from different types of local internal or external defects. Thus, partial discharge (PD) identification and classification are important for diagnostic insulation syste...

Defective cables in the electric power systems of nuclear power plants can cause failure of essential components in control and instrumentation or power distribution subsystems, resulting in potential safety concerns. Due to this problem, a nondestructive and non-intrusive condition assessment technique is highly desirable to evaluate cable status and to predict the remaining useful life of a c...