IEEE Power and Energy Society

Chicago Chapter 2010-2011


Download Presentation (2 MB PDF)

Novel Approach to Power System Condition Assessment and Maintenance

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

 

John Lauletta

Exacter

About the Topic

As overhead distribution electric equipment ages it is often damaged by lightning, environmental pollution, switching surges, freeze/thaw cycles, and other issues of age and wear-and-tear. The result of this damage is momentary and sustained outages, reduced feeder reliability, increased Customer Minutes of Interruption (CMI) and a degradation of standard reliability indices such as SAIFI and SAIDI.

This presentation will review the development of technology to survey and assess overhead distribution feeders and circuits to locate weakened or failed equipment. The technology uses specific RF emissions that correlate to Failure Signatures. The Failure Signatures were developed under laboratory conditions and have been used to evaluate overhead equipment on over 150,000 miles of distribution circuits in five countries evaluating an estimated 2 million distribution structures. A statistical GPS location methodology will also be discussed that pinpoints the geospatial location of structures with weakened equipment resulting from RF emission survey information. Finally, a review of U.S. statistics on weakened equipment findings and field methods to pinpoint the exact piece of equipment to replace on a located structure will be reviewed.

About the Speaker

John Lauletta has been involved in electric utility measurement technology since 1975. John's career includes ten years with American Electric Power as Measurements Manager, 14 Years as VP Scientific Columbus and most recently as President and CEO of Exacter, Inc.

John holds engineering degrees from The Ohio State University and Purdue University and is the Central Ohio Past Chair for the Power Engineering Society Chapter of IEEE. John holds two patents in predictive failure technologies.

Exacter, Inc. is a developer of predictive technologies for electric utility reliability and preventive maintenance.

Location       Time  
       
ComEd Commercial Center - Auditorium   5:30 PM   Social
1919 Swift Drive (park behind building)   6:00 PM   Dinner (optional)
Oak Brook, IL 60523-1850   6:45 PM   Presentation
(near I-290 & I-294 interchange)   8:00 PM   Adjourn
630-684-3200      

Reservations

Please make your reservation by noon on Monday 10 Jan 2011. The preferred reservation method is via the Online Reservation Form. You also may leave your reservation on the IEEE Chicago Section voicemail (630) 493-4333. Please leave the following information: name and date of the meeting, your first and last name, phone number, IEEE member (yes/no), food (yes/no), Exelon employee (yes/no).

The cost of the optional family style dinner is $15 for IEEE members, $20 for non-members, payable at the event. Sorry, we are unable to process credit cards. Checks payable to "IEEE-PES Chicago Chapter" and cash are accepted, and receipts will be provided.

Continuing Education

IEEE technical meetings may be acceptable as continuing education where required for maintenance of professional engineering licensure. Refer to the individual state's requirements for details. A receipt for one Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be provided.


Program  |  Executive Committee  |  Reservation  |  Luncheon Location  |  Dinner Location  |  PDHs  |  Links  |  Nondiscrimination Policy
Updated 28 Dec 2010