A new provider of products and services to monitor the health of electric generation and distribution substation equipment was announced at February’s DistribuTECH 2001 show in San Diego. Serveron Corporation—a privately held, venture capital financed enterprise based in Oregon—was founded to meet electric utilities’ need for information on equipment operating conditions, performance, and potential fault conditions.
Serveron’s feature products are TrueGas analyzers and CellSense battery monitors. TrueGas analyzers monitor the levels of volatile dissolved gases in the insulating oil inside large transformers and other oil-filled equipment, and are the only instruments available today that detect and separately analyze even trace levels of all eight fault gases of interest. CellSense battery monitors provide back-up power that is required to start up substation equipment after a shutdown, and that provides critical short-term power to shut down substation equipment and prevent equipment destruction in the event of an unplanned outage or equipment failure. For more information, contact Serveron.
