Category Archives: Facility
Each year, millions of people and thousands of businesses are impacted by underground cable system failures. IMCORP is dedicated to advancing the understanding of how these failures occur and more importantly, how they can be avoided.
Dec 21 2017
Water Trees Don't Fail Cable
By: Ben Lanz and Bill Corrente
Posted in: Wind, Utility, Solar, Renewable, Generation, Facility, Cable
Water Trees Don't Fail Cable Decades ago we learned from many of the leading industry experts that water trees fail cable and we believed this industry myth until we collected cable performance data using the IMCORP Factory Grade&re... Read ArticleJul 30 2012
Stone in Cable 176m (578ft) from Termination
By: Ben Lanz and Bill Corrente
Posted in: Backfill, Cable, Facility, Generation, Renewable, Solar, Utility, Wind, Workmanship
IMCORP’s Factory Grade® assessment discovered a substandard location while commissioning the cable systems at a generation facility. The client used IMCORP’s Location Matching service to pinpoint the defect location. N... Read ArticleMar 23 2012
Power Cable Termination Cutback Issues at a Data Center
By: IMCORP
Posted in: Workmanship, Facility
Pictured here are live front terminations of a medium voltage power cable system at a critical data center in Portland, OR. After termination failures began to occur, DC HiPot testing had been utilized but came back inconclusive. At this po... Read Article