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When Riverside Medical Center opened the new wing in March 2024, the engineering staff specified an oil-filled transformer to meet the lowest capital cost. But within the next 18 months, they spent an additional $340,000 on a vault, oil containment…

In 2023, the installation of a new motor control system at Craigsle, Jiangsu, ended up in a VFD failure in the first month. The suspect was neither a faulty drive nor a poor motor. The culprit was a transformer. The…

The facility manager in Shenzhen installed three single-phase transformers in 2022 to operate a 120 kVA motor control line which required transformers for its power needs. The system experienced multiple Variable Frequency Drive failures The system faced voltage drops during…

The cost of a major transformer failure in a power system exceeds $10 million for utilities and industrial facilities because of required emergency repairs and equipment replacement and production downtime. Yet many engineering teams still struggle to cut through generic…

The factory required dependable electricity service within a six-week timeframe. The traditional substation design needed four months because it required both civil construction work and permit acquisition, and actual construction operations at the site. They opted for a compact substation…

The engineering team found a single specification error that caused the three-month delay of the Bhopal facility upgrade project in 2024. The team selected dry-type transformers for their outdoor substation but failed to consider the extreme summer temperatures that occur…

In 2003, a singular piece of machinery altered the landscape of the Italian power grid overnight. Upon ABB’s commissioning of the 1,630 MVA phase-shifting transformer at a decisive interconnection point, the grid operators obtained the capability of instantaneously redirecting the…

What nobody realized was how essential the electricity supply was until the largest blackout in the history of the United States occurred due to the storm Sandy in October 2012. Along the Sandy coast, devastated neighborhoods with traditional overhead power…

Upon the growth of the CNC machining center from the manufacturing plant in Suzhou last year, an important discovery was made by its electrical contractor. Three-phase transformers suitable for supplying the motor load of the newly installed machines could not…

In 2019, a Danish offshore wind farm faced a problem, which made a difference. The first generation of conventional conservator-type transformers had developed premature insulation failures after just eight years. The first set had been plagued by the unwanted ingressions…