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FAILURE ANALYSIS OF GRIDCo
SUBSTATION TRANSFORMER TO
ENHANCE MAINTENANCE
PERFORMANCE
Joseph BenjaminTaylor, MSc. MSc. MGhIE, AreaManager, NNS, Ghana Grid Company Limited
(GRIDCo); e-mail:[email protected];[email protected]
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Jyoti K. Sinha Lecturer, Course Director, MEAM MSc.School of MACE, University of Manchester, M139PL, UK e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract
This article uses such conventional reliability analysis asFailure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Fault TreeAnalysis (FTA) and interconnection with ReliabilityBlock Diagram (RBD)/ and or Logic Diagram (LD) to
analyze the failure of an oil-filled step-down powertransformer
FTA, RBD and/or LD and the more detailed FMECA,Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis inter-relatewith FMEA as maintenance as well as design tools tofacilitate decision on maintenance requirements, andthereby addressing maintainability
Analysis technique is typically demonstrated in theapplication to transformer failure analysis in this paper
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USES OF FMEA, FTA, RBD and/or LD As maintenance and design tools to address
maintainability, to analyze, review and explainsystem failure for instance
Recommend actions to reduce the likelihood of thefailure occurring and identify improvement
opportunities. Definition:Maintainabilitythe ability of an item,
under stated conditions of use, to be retained in, orrestored to, a state in which it can perform itsrequired functions, when maintenance is performed
under stated conditions and using prescribedprocedures and resources [BS 4778]
- Probability that required maintenance action will besuccessfully completed in a given time period [Dhillon
1999]
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PROFILE OF GHANA GRID COMPANY LIMITED
(GRIDCo) & VOLTA RIVER AUTHORITY (VRA) Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCO) is a wholly Government-owned
company established in the year 2008 [4] to operate and manage thetransmission assets of the Volta River Authority (VRA) including the 69kV,
161kV, & 225kV substations. GRIDCo has transmission assets, comprising over 43 transformer and
switching substations, and covering approximately over 4,000 circuitkilometres of transmission lines spread throughout the country
Operates a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, SCADA and aninterconnected grid [4-5].
The VRA operates hydro and thermal power stations and is currently agenerator of electricity following power sector restructuring.
Prior to restructuring, VRAs power transmission assets were maintainedand operated by a separate department in VRA- the Transmission Systemswhich constituted the core of GRIDCo
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THE FAILURE - PREAMBLE
On the evening of Sunday, September 16, 2007 at about 16:20hours, a 3-Phase, 3-winding, Westinghouse-make powertransformer manufactured in 1973 with rated capacity25/33MVA, and voltage 161/34.5/11.5kV wasengulfed in fire,and ultimately got burnt [6] at a substation in Tarkwa about 300kilometres west of the capital, Accra
The transformer is Oil-filled, ONAN/ONAF cooling, fitted withradiators, bushings and conservator tank with Buchholz relay
The fire outbreak was traced to insulation deterioration of 125volts direct current (125VDC) control cable inside the chamber ofBuchholz relay housing.
Prior to the fire outbreak maintenance work had been done onthe Buchholz relay to replace a section of 125VDC control cableaccessed by maintenance personnel to have been deteriorated.
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Figure 1:
Cut view of Buchholz Relay
[14]
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Figure 2: General arrangement of Buchholz
relay with cover removed showing front & rear
views [15]
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OBSERVED LIMITATION IN
ENGINEERING ANALYTICAL TOOLS Perceived absence of appropriate reliability
engineering tool in GRIDCo to aid in analysingequipment failure [12]. If there were such a tool it is
not known to the author. Quick fixes of problems and solutions are observed to
be the norm.
For a typical system failure current maintenance bestpractice uses such conventional reliability analysis asFMEA [2-3], FTA and interconnection with RBD and/orLogic Diagram, LG to analyse equipment failure [2-3].
Definition: Reliability is the probability that a failurewill not occur in a particular time [Dhillon, 1999]
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Brief introduction, origin, strengths &
limitations of FMEA, FTA & RBD FMEA was developed in the 1950s, as a systematic method that appeared under
different names, to analyse technical systems failure.
FMEA is an engineering technique used to define, identify, and eliminate knownand/or potential failures, problems, errors, and so on from the system, design,
process, and/or service before they reach the customer[8]
FMEA is a simple analysis method to reveal possible failures and to predict the
failure effects on the system as a whole[9]. FMEA is a valuable starter in the preparation of RBD on the basis that each failure
mode is related to its effect on the systems output
Strengths include prevention planning, identifying change requirements andreducing cost [2]
Limitations of traditional FMEA :
Not suitable for applications where critical combinations of component failuresneed to be revealed, because it considers one component at a time and assumesall other components to be functioning perfectly [2].
Directed more towards analysis of existing systems [2, 8] and does not concentrateon proposing designing out excellent systems. However [9-11] address theselimitations.
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Brief introduction, origin, strengths & limitations
of FMEA, FTA & RBD- Continued Origin of Fault tree Analysis, FTA - is traced to Bell telephone laboratories in 1962 and to
Boeing in the 1970s *2]. FTA is a reliability/safety design analysis technique, which graphically describes the
combinations of events leading to a defined system failure mode called the top event
Shows the logical relation between system failure, i.e. a specific undesirable event within a
system [which constitutes the top event of the tree], and failures of different components
of the system [which constitute the basic fault event of the tree].
The basic (input) fault events could either be independent (round-shaped) [of otherevents ]- event requiring no further development or dependent (kite shaped)-event that
depends on lower events, but not developed further downwards.
Conventional reliability analysis using FTA involves a number of logical possibilities, two
main logical symbols and two gates-the ORand an AND gates [2-3 and 7], and are also
based on details of plant structure in a static condition
Limitations: They are proven expensive in designing solutions because of the sheer
quantum and volume of data involved in analysis.
Strengths of FTA and also RBD [2-3 and 7] lie in their uses in variety of applications,
namely; (1) facilitates decision on maintenance requirements,
(2) to prepare diagnostic routines, (3)define reliability and safety of failure modes and
effects (4)design built-in-test, fault indications and redundancies (5)enables designalternatives to be evaluated(5) as retention of knowledge-base
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Brief introduction, origin, strengths &
limitations of FMEA, FTA & RBD- Continued
RBD is a process used to break down high level reliability requirements for thewhole plant to those needed for individual systems or items
All systems can be broken down into a combination of series and parallelreliabilities, and RBD combines both [2-3]
RBD describes the effect of a failure of a component on the system as a whole, orvice versa
RBD also describes a system as a number of functional blocks interconnected inaccordance with the failure effect of each block on the system reliability as awhole,( and contrast with a block schematic diagram of the systems functionallayout )
RBD recognizes series and parallel failure behaviours as two principal failurebehaviours [2-3]
Other Strength of RBD : - Simple to construct
Models simulations at any level of component details as might be necessitated bythe particular model, and like FTA facilitates decision on maintenancerequirements.
Limitation is that it considers only one component failure [2-3] even though therecould be many-component failures like the Concorde failure [13].
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Application of FMEA, RBD & FTA Tools
for failure analysis of transformer Application of FMEA, RBD & FTA is demonstrated in Figures
3-5 to analyse and review failure of a 3-Phase, 3-winding,oil-filled, ONAN/ONAF, transformer at GRIDCo substation inTarkwa in Ghana.
Transformer is fitted with radiators, bushings, conservatorwith Buchholz relay
A typical RBD is used to model, and analyse the failure,beginning with the consideration of the plant hierarchysince FMEA analyses the hardware, functions of the systemor a combination
Application of the analysis technique begins by consideringthree levels of plant hierarchy consisting of system,subsystem and component levels through FMEA of thesingle component failure and completing the analysis withthe interconnection of RBD and FTA
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Figure 3: Typical simple Plant
Hierarchy of Tarkwa substation [12]
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A typical simple plant hierarchy of Tarkwa
substation- Discussion of Fig. 3
Figure 3 is a typical simple plant hierarchy of the Tarkwa substation
The failure analysis using RBD begins by considering the hierarchyof the plant structure
Considers the equipment class- the transformers through theequipment subclass or unit - the power transformer and continues
down to the maintainable item- the Buchholz relay Maintainable item is either repaired or replaced during the life of
the transformer
The replaceable item- the Buchholz relay is viewed as a structural orfunctional unit of a system or equipment, the transformer
The Buchholz relay is considered as an entity for investigation A diagrammatic representation of a Buchholz relay is shown in
Figures 1-2
The equipment class or unit, the power transformer performs a subfunction of production transforming alternating voltage for powertransmission
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Application of FMEA tool to analyze the
transformer failure- Discussion of Figure 4
Figure 4 reflects a typical FMEA FMEA examines all of the possible failures of the
transformer and design taking into account (1)plantstructure, (2) the hierarchy of the equipment class i.e.transformer
Considers function of transformer, assesses potentialfunctional failure, failure mode- the station ground, cause-the Buchholz relay and effect of failure- the fact that powercan not be supplied to customers, as well as the system ofcurrent controls and action
FMEA as discussed here and shown in Figure 4 considersone component failure at a time
Considers the station DC ground fault as a failure caused bythe one component - buchholz relay
Assumes all other components to be functioning perfectly
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Discussion of Typical representation
of FTA as shown in Fig. 5 A typical application of FTA to the transformer failure at Tarkwa substation
is demonstrated in Figure 5
It shows the logical relations between failure events of the differentcomponents- the Buchholz relay, bushing, and defined top event- thetransformer failure
Four different lower level failures (lower level events) are examined -Buchholz relay, bushing, mal operation & design deficiency
These are in turn logically related to different lower level failures - cableinsulation breakdown, non functioning of relay, bushing vibration
The fault tree construction then proceeds level by level till all fault eventshave been developed to the prescribed resolution further down to reachthe basic fault events thermal effect, bare cable contact, maintenanceaction, 125VDC battery, no transformer oil in relay to actuate relay sensor,design deficiency, internal source or external means that could causebushing vibration, bushing crack, overloading or voltage regulation whichcould result from mal operation of the transformer
Basic fault events are analysed and recommendations made as to actionsnecessary to reduce the likelihood of the failure occurring, as well as
identifying improvement opportunities
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Figure 6: Typical Reliability
Block Diagram for Tarkwa
transformer failure
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Discussion of Typical representation
of RBD as shown in Fig 6
A typical simple reliability block diagram (RBD) ofthe failure of a transformer at Tarkwa substationas shown in Figure 6 and discussed in this Sectioninterconnects the FTA represented in Figure 5
RBD as shown in fig. 6 describes the transformerfailure as consisting of a number of functionalblocks - the Buchholz relay fault, designdeficiency, bushing failure and mal operation.
In a logical sense Figure 6 is a simple modelling ofthe system failure logic showing the logicalconnection between components of the system.
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RECOMMENDED ACTION TO REDUCE
LIKELIHOOD OF FAILURE OCCURING & FOR
IMPROVEMENT OPORTUNITIES Continuous improvement, Review and update of maintenance strategy,
policy and inputs to maintenance function
Develop proactive maintenance techniques as Condition-basedMaintenance etc.
Develop maintenance techniques that take advantage of available toolsand techniques as FMEA, FMECA, FTA, RBD, criticality approaches etc.
Review and update Technical procedure for replacement/modification of125VDC cable if such a procedure exists. Otherwise consider developingone.
Approval to undertake replacement/repairs and/or modification requirestreamline and centralisation, if such a policy exists. Otherwise considerdeveloping one
Provide Parallel/redundant protections for 125VDC control cable forBuchholz relay
Install a back-up 125VDC battery bank to increase reliability of protectionsystem
Provide appropriate and specific training, workshops and seminarstailored to suit the requirement of maintenance and operating staff
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CONCLUSIONS
Using conventional reliability analysis such as FMEA, FTA and interconnection withRBD the transformer failure has been analysed
The cause of a combination of two events - insulation deterioration of 125VDCcontrol cable and maintenance action i.e. design, as well as maintenanceperspective has been observed as the mode of the failure
Failure resulted in inconvenience to customers, was a catastrophe to the plant and
environment, led to high cost to the utility Failure could have been possibly prevented if re-cabling of the Buchholz relay
control cable had been completed or if redundancy had been built into the systemthrough an alternative parallel path using a combination of back-up 125VDCsupply and protective relay
Parallel components are inherently more reliable since system failure occurs whenall components have failed, however capital costs are required.
Quick fixes, generally reactive in nature and underlines fire fighting only solvesymptoms rather than root causes of problems as was the case with themaintenance action that contributed to the transformer failure
By designing systems that incorporate FMEA, RBD, and FTA tools and techniquesthe maintenance function could be improved to become more proactive
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CONCLUSIONS- CONTINUE
Present work has been limited to using tools of FMEA thatconsidered only one component failure to model FTA & RBD.
FTA has been used only to analyse the failure and not to evaluate it.
For future work based on different techniques and tools, there aretechniques available to calculate for simple trees once the failurelogic has been modelled using FTA, as well as for complex trees
especially for multiple component failures of basic events, whichneed to be looked at and applied to the analysis of the transformerfailure.
There is also Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis, FMECA,which is the more detailed form of FMEA that combines FMEA andCA, Criticality Analysis
There are other tools such as Root Cause Analysis, (quality) CauseAnalysis Tools as Fishbone (Ishikawa) diagram, Pareto Chart andScatter diagram that have not been considered in the present work,but which can be applied to analyse the transformer failure
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END OF PRESENTATION
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