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wiredInUSA - March 2014

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Alstom has obtained ISO/IEC 17025

certification from the accreditation body

Accredia for its center of excellence high

voltage equipment testing laboratory in

Noventa di Piave, Italy. The certification for

the research and development laboratory

is claimed to be the first in Italy to obtain

the accreditation.

The laboratory will supply independent

testing services and internationally valid

certification for products that lead to

improving HVDC transmission lines.

The test chamber, which has been a

part of the Noventa di Piave plant since

1973, conducts electrical, heating and

mechanical tests of energy transmission

and distribution equipment, as well as

components used in supergrids. At the

new laboratory, tests include industrial

frequency voltage tests up to 640kV root

mean square (rms), atmospheric impulse

tests up to 1.8MV, maneuver impulse

tests up to 1.2MV, and radio interference

voltage (RIV) tests up to 640kV rms.

Laboratory granted

certification

EUROPE NEWS

The international marine contractors

association (IMCA) wire rope work group

will hold the fourth in its current series of wire

rope workshops on 18

th

March 2014 at the

Radisson Blu Hotel at Amsterdam Airport.

The series, entitled “Optimum system design

for high value subsea construction ropes”,

hasprovedverysuccessful. IMCA’s technical

director, Jane Bugler, commented: “Over

90 [delegates] attended the last workshop

in Amsterdam in October, which focused

on the lubrication of high value subsea

construction ropes; others have looked

at high value wire rope issues, and at

non-destructive testing.”

The March event will embrace the

operators’ view of current and future

system requirements; the system designer’s

approach for wire rope interaction (storage,

routing, winches, sheaves and active heave

systems); rope qualification methods for

specific systems; fully integrated monitoring

systems and interaction with rope systems;

and multi-fail and parallel winch systems in

deep water.

Wire rope

workshop