VOLTAMP TRANSFORMERS LTD.

Field Procedure for Overhauling job of Power transformer

SL. ACTIVITY PROCESS NORM REVIEW

NO.

- Tests to be carried out as per agreement.

1 Testing prior to OH
2 Oil draining - Under Nitrogen or dry air displacement
Recording IR - With motorized/digital Megger
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values - Temp. Correction factor chart as agreed to be used
- Initial sludge recording
- Tightening of spacers
- Tightening of core bolts
- Tightening of core bolts
- Insulation resistance Measurement prior and after tightening with
Internal inspection
500 / 1000 V Megger
4 of Core Coil
- Coil clamping bolt tightness
Assembly
- Check for coil healthiness
- Possible physical verification
- Re-taping leads
- Removal of paper sample for chemical analysis DP test & tensile
strength
Re-tapping of leads - Insulating creep / kraft (dried) paper to be used
5
whenever necessary
- Cutting of gasket by special machine to achieve proper finish
only.
Gasket cutting and - ANABOND 610 or equivalent Adhesive to be used for necessary
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replacement sticking.
- Proper surface cleaning to be done with cleaner and then after
gasket to be applied.
- Min 2 ft over and above normal level.
7 Top cover lifting - Access for a person to go inside and sit on top part of core for
various activities.
8 Bell cover lifting - At least by 0.5 ft to replace gasket
- Confirming of manual operations.
Tap changer
9 - Confirmation of proper contact alignment and contact resistance.
servicing
- Verification of tightness of fixed moving contacts.
- Recording of time taken to reach vacuum 750 mm + around less
Evacuation &
than 10 Torr.
Heating of core and
- Vacuum leak rate should be less than 50M bar Lit/Sec. after 5
10 winding by
hours (1.3 M bar = 1 Torr, Lit=approx. tank capacity in liters, sec.
Nitrogen gas filling
=time in seconds for which duration the drop is observed.
and heating
- Duration:- 36 hrs. per cycle after reaching 755 mm or 5 Torr.
- testing at site with calibrated equipments
- BDV: 60 KV+
Oil Filtration - Filtration by high vacuum filter plant strictly at temp. less than
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process 60°/65° C in filter plant.
- vacuum must be read by vacuum gauge.
-
- Vacuum over filled oil not to be braked for min. 8 hours. Vacuum
Oil impregnation
12 pump to run for 8 hours.
process
- Temp. of filled oil to be kept at least 50° C.
13 Oil circulation in - Duration: - Min 48 hours for main tank under transformer covered
Main and OLTC condition.
 - Temp. 60°/65° C or less but not less than 55° C.
tank
- Cold oil circulation for min 8 hours before stopping circulation.
- Improvement in IR value over original (before OH) IR values by
at least 15% over initial values at common temp. (if IR value are
below 500 Mega ohm at 30° C)
IR values
- Comparison of IR values strictly at common temp.
14 monitoring and
- IR value recording to be done at every 4 hours during circulation
improvement
of oil.
- IR value under Nitrogen medium to be recorded once in a heating
cycle.
- The P.I. improvement should be at least up to 1.3 for HV winding
and 1.3 for LV winding if they are already in the range of 1.1 prior
to OH or atleast 15%.
- If P.I. is above 1.5 prior to OH the P.I. the same range should be
Polarization index
achieved after drying out & oil circulation.
15 monitoring and
- This above subject to present condition of insulation paper. .
improvement
- The above also subject to achievement with consideration of new
oil only
If paper condition deteriorated & old oil above value may not be
achieved
16 Air venting - Two times prior to charging
- 24 hours for 33 KV class transformers after stopping all oil
17 Settling time disturbances in main tank.
- Air venting, testing, painting is permissible during settling time
- Cold trails of HV breaker for Buchholz Trip OTI & WTI trip.
Pre-testing - Cold trail of breaker for relay tripping.
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checking - Joint checklist to be signed.
- DP test of insulation paper at ERDA
19 Testing after OH - Tests to be carried out as per agreed terms
- Oil sample to be taken in steel and glass bottles and allowed to
Oil testing at
cool to ambient temp. and settle for min 4 hours for before doing
ERDA/ NABL
testing process.
20 approved lab as per
- One sample each for testing as per IS 1866-2000 & DGA to be
IS 1866-2000 &
taken at site.
DGA
- The sample to be tested after min 12 hours of taking the sample.