Switchgear Articles
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Ensuring Reliability: Gas Monitoring Systems for Electrical Switchgear Maintenance
In the intricate world of electrical power systems, switchgear plays a pivotal role in controlling, protecting, and isolating electrical equipment to ensure the reliability and safety of the power supply. As critical components of the electrical infrastructure, switchgear units require meticulous maintenance to operate efficiently and prevent costly downtime. This is where the integration of ...
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Project - 455 KW, MA
Year: 2016 Running Gear: 3 units: Vertical shaft synchronous generator driven by a Francis turbine. Vertical shaft synchronous generator driven by a propeller turbine, and a vertical shaft induction generator driven through a flat belt by a Kaplan turbine. Scope: Replacement control system, switchgear, excitation, wicket gate operators.. Located in Massachusetts, this hydroelectric plant ...
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Project - 1.6 MW, NY
Year: 2017 Running Gear: Vertical shaft Kaplan turbine with synchronous generator. Scope: Replacement control system and exciter. Located in upstate NY, this hydroelectric plant was built in the mid-1980s in response to the federal PURPA legislation. The site is well suited to hydropower, with a small labyrinth dam spanning the river banks just above a beautiful cascade into a deep gorge. ...
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Project - 600 KW, NY
Year: 2018 Running Gear: Three units: One vertical shaft Francis turbine with synchronous generator. One horizontal shaft turbine with synchronous generator. One horizontal shaft double-runner turbine with synchronous generator. Scope: Replacement control system, switchgear, and HPU. Black start capability. Located in a small town in the Adirondak mountains in upstate NY, this ...
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Project - 4 MW, MA
Year: 2018 Running Gear: 2 Vertical shaft Francis turbines with synchronous generators Scope: Replacement of control system and exciters This hydroelectric plant is located in central MA on a highly developed river, with multiple hydro plants operating both upstream and downstream of the project. Originally constructed in 1918 by a local manufacturing company, the project today consists of ...
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How are evolving standards improving MV installations?
Standards must evolve to ensure safer and efficient MV installations Almost all products people use in their daily lives - such as electronics, cars, medical devices, and home energy systems - were designed to meet designated industry standards. For the consumer, this means that these products meet both the safety and performance requirements. This even more true for MV installations ...
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Engineering simulation and success in IoT product design
Authored by Raghu (Jayaraman) Raghuraman, Senior Vice President, Digital Engineering & Technical Debt at Schneider Electric. It takes time, precision, and dedication to create a reliable and robust IoT solution that would satisfy very specific requirements of industrial customers. As you can read in the blog of my product design colleagues, one of the best practices to create accurate and ...
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6 reasons smart grids need green, digital and more secure ring main units (RMU)
Globally, every industry is accelerating decarbonization initiatives. Buildings and factories are becoming more electrified by replacing fossil-fuel-based heating and processes. As more renewable energy is progressively added to the power grid, the grid itself must take steps to decarbonize. The SF6 greenhouse gas currently has a unique use exemption in insulating medium-voltage (MV) electrical ...
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The Smarter Digital Twin: Using Electrical System Simulation to Improve Safety, Reliability, and Sustainability
If you’ve been following my blog series, you may have noticed a common thread: data drives effective decision-making. Whether you are acting on sustainability, energy efficiency, electrical resilience, safety, or any other aspect of improving operations, data is the feedstock of analytics. And the analytic tools that convert data into actionable insights are getting smarter. In a previous ...
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Digitalizing Your Critical Power System: Simple, Smart and Stable
In my last post, I talked about the difficulties faced by facility teams in keeping critical power facilities running safely, reliably, efficiently, and compliant with regulations. We looked at the many hidden risks that make these goals even more challenging. A digitally-connected power distribution system gives you the deep insights you need so you’re no longer ‘working ...
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How sustainable commercial real estate can make your business more profitable
In the first post of this series on commercial real estate, I talked about the urgency to transform properties to support an ‘all-electric, all-digital’ future. In this post, I will zoom in on one specific pillar of the Schneider Electric vision for Buildings of the Future: the tangible value of ...
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How to manage cybersecurity for switchgear and controlgear
Digital transformation is reshaping how businesses are operating and is opening opportunities for more efficiency and better sustainability. Data plays a crucial role in enabling all those applications. This applies to switchgear and controlgear, where the collected data can help improve the safety and availability of electric distribution systems and processes, leading to better energy ...
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Refrigerant Gases for the Electric Power Industry - How to Monitor SF6
One of the biggest safety challenges in the electric power industry is managing the risks posed by unwanted electrical discharges. With an increasing move towards renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind and biogas, there is a need for many more individual connections to the national electrical grid, which means the need for more switchgears. Switchgears contain a combination of fuses, ...
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Europe solar-storage costs fall below markets as learnings kick in
Solar plus storage costs are falling below wholesale power prices across Europe and deeper savings in capex and cost of finance lie ahead, authors of a new cross-industry paper told New Energy Update. A new study of PV and battery costs at six European cities indicates solar plus storage costs are falling faster than previously expected. Utility scale PV projects with 2 ...
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Slot Button Type Silicone Rubber Busbar Joint Box
The electrical junction box with busbar is a new type bus bar insulation cover, it is fabricated with high-quality raw materials in our state-of-the-art manufacturing unit. Silicone rubber busbar junction box is widely used in 1-35kV high & low voltage electrical distribution room, substation, capacitor bank, transformer input & output wire etc. for busbar insulating protection. It helps ...
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Enhanced Anti-pollution Flashover Coating RTV-II
A functional insulator coating to protect insulators in pollution area, such as industrial area, coastal area and other extreme environmental conditions, also can be used in normal environmental conditions. RTV-II/ PRTV is a one part and new type Room Temperature Vulcanizing RTV silicone rubber coating,also be referred to as High Voltage Insulator Coatings (HVICs) is based on extensive research ...
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McLeod dam hydro - Case study
The McLeod Dam is one of six dams on the Moira River in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, owned and operated by the Quinte Conservation Association. This dam was constructed in the late 1970’s for the primary purpose of ice and flood control. In 2008, the dam was retrofitted for the secondary purpose of power generation. CHC supplied a water-to-wire equipment package consisting of two (2) ...
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Oswegatchie generating station - Case study
The Oswegatchie Hydro facility is located on the Upper Oswegatchie River in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. CHC provided a water-to-wire package consisting of two 1250 mm axial flow Kaplan turbines with 1035 kW/450 RPM synchronous generators, switchgear and controls package. This redevelopment project began operations in July 2002, was constructed in only 13 months and commissioned ...
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Enerdu plant expansion - Case study
Located in the picturesque town of Almonte, on the North bank of the Mississippi River, the Enerdu redevelopment project involves expanding the footprint of the original powerhouse out into the river to accommodate larger turbines and to increase the plant’s generating capacity by 70%. CHC provided a water-to-wire equipment package including two 2000 mm Axial Flow Kaplan pit units with two ...
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Fulton repowering project - Case study
The Fulton power plant was originally built in the early 1920s and is located on the Oswego River in the City of Fulton, New York. After a number of failures with the existing equipment, the plant was completely shut down in 2013. CHC presented several upgrade options but Brookfield’s requirement to maintain the existing plant footprint and to re-use the existing generators, switchgear and ...
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