Solid Insulation Investigation Water trees in cables, partial discharges in generators or motors, thermal degradation of transformers: all of these cases illustrate how insulating material smay suffer from ageing phenomena. These unwanted processes may lead to prematuire end-of-life or unexpected outages. Inversely, low risk of breakdown and safe long-lasting operation strongly depend on the health of the insulating materials used electrical machines and accessoires. We perform in-depth investigation of solid insulating materials. Together with electrical measurements, such an assessment makes us able to: Find out the actual condition of insulating materials Identify the ageing mechanism that may be active Identify manufacturing defects or errors during installation Propose the best remedial actions Perform complete root cause analyses of incidents For our investigations, we rely on the following techniques: X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Fourier Transform Infra Red spectroscopy (FTIR) Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) The material analysis laboratory is also used to charecterize other non metallic materials (polymers, deposits, slag, ash, biomass,...), in order to help in the resoltion of a large number of industrial problems such as corrosion, combustion, filtration, etc.   Contact: Gérard PLATBROOD P: +32 (0)2 382 0436