bravo69
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- Fishkill, NY
Hello,
Not sure if the correct section of the forum to ask this question. I am looking for cases or real life events where electrical equipment and devices such as medium voltage and 480V circuit breakers failed due to lack of preventative maintenance (PM). Are there any data on a company, organization, mission critical facility's, etc that showed an event occurred where a circuit breaker failed to trip, or did not properly trip due to lack of or inadequate maintenance?
I am looking for real life events where theses have occurred. For example;
On October 12, 1995, GE power plant in upstate NY, during a routine startup, a medium voltage circuit breaker failed to open automatically to a steam generator. This event occurred due to an overload of a binding latch assembly.
Cause of failure: Subsequent investigation revealed malfunctioning of internal components of the circuit breaker failed due to lack of PM.
Just making this up of course. The reason I am requesting this information is because I am trying to present to my company that lack of PM of electrical equipment/devices can cause failure.
Upon my research I come across case studies with mathematical statistical data but no real life events.
If anyone can point in the right direction that would be great.
Not sure if the correct section of the forum to ask this question. I am looking for cases or real life events where electrical equipment and devices such as medium voltage and 480V circuit breakers failed due to lack of preventative maintenance (PM). Are there any data on a company, organization, mission critical facility's, etc that showed an event occurred where a circuit breaker failed to trip, or did not properly trip due to lack of or inadequate maintenance?
I am looking for real life events where theses have occurred. For example;
On October 12, 1995, GE power plant in upstate NY, during a routine startup, a medium voltage circuit breaker failed to open automatically to a steam generator. This event occurred due to an overload of a binding latch assembly.
Cause of failure: Subsequent investigation revealed malfunctioning of internal components of the circuit breaker failed due to lack of PM.
Just making this up of course. The reason I am requesting this information is because I am trying to present to my company that lack of PM of electrical equipment/devices can cause failure.
Upon my research I come across case studies with mathematical statistical data but no real life events.
If anyone can point in the right direction that would be great.
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