High Voltage Conference – Adelaide, Australia & Virtual

This conference has been created for those working with high voltage systems in the mining, industrial plants, oil and gas utilities industries. The event will focus on earthing, design, testing, installation and maintenance topics. The high voltage installation can range from a substation, auxiliary systems, interconnecting cables/lines and naturally the user’s facilities such as a plant, factory, office facilitiy and mine site. Equipment includes switchgear, transformers, converters, cables, lines, batteries, earthing systems, capacitors, reactors, buildings and structures.

Keynote Speaker: Stephen Palmer, Safearth

• Managing Director at Safearth, Australia’s leading earthing specialists
• Committee Member for IEEE Std80 and Std8
• Convener of the International CIGRE Working Group B3.54
• Secretary of the CIGRE & CIRED Joint Working Group B3.35 who produced TB 749

Conference topics include:

• International Update – An update on Grounding Design and Testing Standards Directions and Changes around the World
• Case Studies: Defects identified within high voltage switchgear and cables via online Patrial Discharge testing
• Maximising the Success of Predictive High Voltage Maintenance
• Partial Discharge Testing on Rotatory Machines
• Life Management of Power Transformers – Synthetic Ester Retro-filling
• Wow, I Got To Audit a Wind Farm
• Off and ON-line Acceptance Testing and Diagnostic testing of Distribution Cables
• Practical Case Study: Waverley Park 220kV Transmission Line
• Arc Flash Hazards in HV Contexts
• Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) – ElectraNet Case Study
• Analysis of Earthing Grids in Multilayer Soils at High Frequencies
• Workshop: Earthing obligations under AS2067 have changed: What has changed, why, and what do you need to do next

Download the full event brochure to see all topic and speakers here.