CABLEGNOSIS Technologies

  • New insulating materials technologies for high power transfer and sustainability covering the development of polymer blends for insulation with a custom design of suitable additives and nanofillers
  • Technologies for designing high power cables for increased transmission capacity via proposals of novel cable layouts either with increased or with decreased cross-sections
  • Recyclability technologies for the materials used in power cable systems aiming at using the fraction consisting only of the main insulation of the recycled cable to be used as electrical insulation at lower voltage levels
  • Feasibility assessment for superconducting cables in submarine connections applied on example use cases such as offshore windfarm connections at the Dutch and German coast
  • CABLEGNOSIS Life Cycle Center IT platform development and integration forming cloud-based monitoring and diagnostics life cycle center that will provide to the cable operators a robust asset management of the power cable system with real time monitoring of the system operation status
  • Pre-fault real time condition monitoring of power cable systems utilizing the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) technique to identify and review potential failure modes for long HV cable systems and a novel multi-factor online condition monitoring system based on an electro-optic (EO) modulator, optical fibre and a remote fibre laser.
  • Measurement-based technologies for the health assessment of high-power cables including accurate modelling of the cable and estimation of the cable resistance and temperature through PMU measurements
  • Fault location technologies for high power cable systems based on travelling wave analysis of data from real time PMU measurements and AI-originated detection of the fault type
  • AI-based ageing prediction for the insulation of superconducting cables trained by data from measurements of electrical properties of HTS cable samples at cryogenic conditions replicating the actual ageing processes of a superconducting cable
  • Predictive maintenance techniques for the cable system reliable operation providing prognostic indicators capable of assessing the health state of HV cables along their entire length
  • Impact analysis of water absorption on ageing of lead-free wet-design HVDC and High-Power cables including evaluation of various electrical properties after humidity conditioning in the lab with particular emphasis on proposing a reliable DC breakdown testing protocol.