Researchers have identified an environmentally alternative to a major industrial use of oil. They have discovered a way to treat palm kernel oil so that it can be used to insulate electrical ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an innovative gas chromatography (GC) method for the determination of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in mineral insulating oil using solid phase micro ...

Electricity is a key part of everyday life, from powering lights and heating food through to moving things in the environment, electrical power is required everywhere. Transformers have a huge role to ...

Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. will showcase the CALTRAN product line of transformer oils during the 2018 IEEE PES T&D Exposition. Calumet has more than 25 years of experience producing ...

If oil can maintain a fairly low price of $60 per barrel, Russian energy companies can survive a drawn-out depression in the global industry, according to Wood Mackenzie, the energy and mining ...

The industry has started installing thermal insulating material for deepwater subsea equipment, flowlines, and pipelines to ensure hydrocarbon flow under adverse conditions. Experience shows that ...

Thankfully, cases of transformers catching fire are rare. A major North American utility reported an overall failure rate of 1.21 percent per year on their entire fleet of 765 kV transformers over a ...

There are millions of transformers present in existing electrical grids that interconnect power generation, distribution, and transmission. As these transformers are important assets, they have to be ...

Nearly two million tonnes of Co2 emissions could have been cut each year if the government had insulated homes rather than offering tax relief on fossil fuel extraction, a think tank has said. That ...