Application Areas

Power Quality for Transmission and Distribution

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Delivering power of a proven quality to consumers with sensitive equipment like:

• Data centers
• Industry dependent on automated and robotic equipment
• Identifying harmonic polluters
• Harmonic Direction identifies system polluters
• SICAM Q200 high definition measurement and recording capabilities according to IEC 61000-4-30 Ed. 3

Challenge & Solution

Initial Situation – Utility

The energy supplier that designs systems has to deal with situations where customers demand higher quality. This fact can represent a threat for the quality of the system and lead to outages. Additionally, the energy supplier has to deal with new energy sources e.g. renewable and decentralized sources. Since suppliers are responsible for the power quality and feed their customers energy they have to keep and operate their processes clean and efficient. This is very challenging.

Challenge

Nobody expects energy quality issues, but when they occur customers want to understand why and how to improve and avoid it.

Customers want:

• systems that monitor and record all relevant electrical data and information that can make them able to first understand the system behavior,
• to drive them to find out the system bottlenecks,
• to proactively identify counter measures to improve the system in case problems are identified.

PQ Solution & Benefits

Analyze and improve systems – the SICAM Q200 Class A device finds the source of your power quality issues and polluters in the grid. In the case of a consumer dispute, SICAM Q200 provides reports voltage characteristics according to (EN50160).

Power Quality for Data Centers

Description

Data centers require high availability and ensure zero data loss. Phenomena occurring due to harmonic emissions and transients need to be minimized so high availability requirements and zero data loss are guaranteed.

• Key issues for data centers
• Harmonic emissions
• Transients
• Key features for solving the problem
• Harmonic Direction Detection identifies sources of emissions
• Transient measurement and reporting

Challenge & Solution – Data Center

Initial Situation – Data Center

A vast amount of computers and connections! A huge number of data has to be available round-the-clock! A crowd of employees who have to have access to databases and hardware to be productive! And what else? The air conditioner runs all day long and causes more than only cool air…

Challenge

Evermore frequently, data centers experience network problems and slow data lines in data center and office buildings. There are many factors influencing the reliability and stability of the data network. PQ issues are an important part of them and can cause additional costs.

PQ Solution & Benefit – Record, Evaluate, Classify

Supervise energy feeds, generators and loads to support energy usage by using power quality recorders.

This supports:

• identifying potential power quality problems as harmonics, voltage events and peak loads which are caused by computers, servers and data lines in data centers
• recognizing energy usage trends.

With SICAM Q200 you can detect and prevent energy problems that can lead to downtimes and related costs

Power Quality for IndustryInitial

Situation – Industry

An energy consumer as the industry buys power so he can keep his process running smoothly to create his own product, for example cars, food etc. The industry is looking to increase efficiencies by using more automation, which of course makes their process even more sensitive to fluctuations in the voltage level.

Challenge

Nowadays, industries use sensitive and critical loads, e.g. welding robots, lots of drives, frequency converter, spray units and ventilators.

What is the result?

Production losses, due problems of the energy quality issues like voltage dips, can lead to productions stops and lead to costs that industry are not willing to accept. At the same time they use electronics controllers and rectifiers which can cause problems as harmonics on their own systems and can lead to voltage variations in the network.

PQ Solution & Benefits

SICAM Q200 can measure harmonics and identify their direction. This allows industry to identify sources of pollution, diagnose and remedy issues. Production runs smoother and according to plan and budget.