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Preventative Maintenance to Electrical Substations in El Paso

Preventive maintenance to electrical substations consists of physical inspection of equipment, cleaning, lubrication, readjustment of connections, including testing, modifications, adjustments, and replacement of parts, in order to keep all electrical substations in good working order. The main objective is to eliminate downtime due to maintenance-related failures, as well as to extend the operating life of the equipment and reduce power consumption. A failure of an electrical substation could cost days of downtime. The frequency should be semi-annual or annual. It depends on the service of the equipment and the decision should be made by the safety and maintenance departments.

BENEFITS

  • Reduce accidents and save lives.
  • Minimizes costly breakdowns and unplanned shutdowns of production equipment.
  • Imminent problems can be identified and solutions applied before they become major problems requiring more costly and time-consuming solutions.
  • Increased reliability of electrical equipment.
  • Improved safety.
  • Power system stability.
  • Increased production.

CONSEQUENCES

  • Not knowing the quality of operation of the electrical equipment.
  • Not knowing the current conditions of the electrical equipment.
  • Not having a historical record of the operation of the electrical equipment.
  • Electric shock accidents.
  • Unforeseen production stoppages.

All appliances, machines, devices, among others, at some point in their existence, will require maintenance either as indicated, to ensure that they continue to operate satisfactorily or to repair damage suffered over time.

Our preventative maintenance to electrical substations It is recommended to carry it out annually in any type of equipment or machine where mechanisms, contacts, etc. intervene.

It is the one that pursues to know and to inform permanently of the state and the operation of the facilities by means of the knowledge of the values of the variables, representative of the state and the operativity. To apply this maintenance, it is necessary to identify physical variables (temperature, vibration, energy consumption, etc.) whose variation is indicative of problems that may be appearing in the equipment. It is the most technological type of maintenance, as it requires advanced technical means, and sometimes, strong mathematical, physical and/or technical knowledge.

It is the group of specific tasks to correct the defects that are presented in the different pieces of equipment and that are communicated to the maintenance department by the users of the same ones.

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  • General cleaning of all the elements that make up the system. Adjustment of the connections between wiring and switch shoes.
  • Applications of corrosion inhibitors to improve joints.
  • Aplicaciones de de inhibridores de corrocion para mejorar uniones.
  • General supervision of installations to prevent sanctions with respect to NOM-001-SEDE-2012.
  • Supervicion general de instalaciones para prevenir sanciones respecto a la NOM-001-SEDE-2012.
  • Lubrication of mechanisms.
  • Dielectric oil rigidity test.
  • Revision of connection in high tension.
  • Insulation resistance test (Megger).
  • Retightening of connections
  • Preventive painting in substation area (traffic yellow)
  • Proceedings of liberation before C.F.E
Distribution poles service
Overhead and underground cables
Transformers
Switch disconnector
Medium and low voltage boards
Capacitor Bank

What is electrical preventive maintenance?

Preventive maintenance consists of physical inspection of equipment, cleaning, lubrication, readjustment of connections, including testing, modifications, adjustments and replacement of parts, in order to keep all electrical substations in good working order.

Importance of preventive maintenance

The main objective is to eliminate downtime due to maintenance-related failures, as well as to extend the operating life of equipment and reduce power consumption. A failure of an electrical substation could cost days of downtime.

Frequency of preventive maintenance.

The frequency should be semi-annual or annual. It depends on the service of the equipment and the decision should be made by the safety and maintenance departments.

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