{"424211":{"#nid":"424211","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nigel Hampton Wins Jicable\u201915 Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENigel Hampton was honored with the Jicable\u002715 Prize at the 9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables, held June 21-25 in Versailles, France.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing, Research, and Applications Center (NEETRAC), Hampton received this best paper award for his work entitled \u201cC3.5: Estimating the Impact of VLF Frequency on Effectiveness of VLF Withstand Diagnostics.\u201d His coauthors on the paper are fellow NEETRAC research engineer and Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Ph.D. graduate Josh Perkel; Vivek Tomer and Marina Kuntsevich of the Dow Chemical Company (a NEETRAC member company); and Jean Carlos Hernandez, a Tech ECE Ph.D. graduate who is now the ECE department chair at the University of Merida in Venezuela and who works with NEETRAC in the summers as a visiting fellow. The prize also recognizes Hampton\u2019s technical leadership, his sharing of knowledge in the field of polymeric cable insulation testing and diagnostics, and his demonstrated enthusiastic approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe paper helped to answer a question about the influence of voltage testing frequency on underground cable systems, which has been an important issue for the cable diagnostic testing community.\u0026nbsp;Specifically, the paper addressed a longstanding problem with one of the most popular and effective Cable System Diagnostic methods \u2013\u0026nbsp;the Very Low Frequency (VLF) Withstand or Proof Test \u2013 that is deployed around the world. The VLF test uses different test frequencies to perform the Proof Test. However, the efficiency of the different frequencies has not been established. This paper reports laboratory test and evaluations of field tests that show the concerns over the test frequency cannot be verified. Thus, the efficacy of this very widely used test is better assured.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEstablished in 1984, the 9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables (also known as Jicable) is the premier quadrennial international cable conference, and the Best Paper Prize has been awarded eight times since then. At the recent conference, there were 360 technical papers and 850 delegates from around the world. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhoto cutline:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENigel Hampton (2\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E from right) was presented with the Jicable\u201915 Prize. He is pictured with (L-R) Laurent Tardif, chair of the Jicable Overall Committee; Lucien Deschamp, Jicable\u0026nbsp;organizer; and Marco Marelli, chair of the International Technical and Scientific Organising Committee.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENEETRAC Principal Research Engineer Nigel Hampton was honored with the Jicable\u002715 Prize at the 9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables, held June 21-25 in Versailles, France.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NEETRAC Principal Research Engineer Nigel Hampton was honored with the Jicable\u002715 Prize at the 9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables, held June 21-25 in Versailles, France."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2015-07-14 09:36:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:00","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"424171":{"id":"424171","type":"image","title":"Nigel Hampton presented with the Jicable\u002715 Prize","body":null,"created":"1449254319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:38:39","changed":"1475895162","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:42","alt":"Nigel Hampton presented with the Jicable\u002715 Prize","file":{"fid":"202739","name":"jic_15_jicable_award_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jic_15_jicable_award_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jic_15_jicable_award_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":947668,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jic_15_jicable_award_1_0.jpg?itok=57BKwJ3N"}}},"media_ids":["424171"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neetrac.gatech.edu\/","title":"National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.jicable.org\/2015\/index.php","title":"Jicable\u002715 (9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"134141","name":"9th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables"},{"id":"134131","name":"and Applications Center"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"134121","name":"National Electric Energy Testing"},{"id":"405","name":"NEETRAC"},{"id":"134111","name":"Nigel Hampton"},{"id":"365","name":"Research"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}