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Westinghouse - PLC Based Crane Controls
PaR Nuclear, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, provides all types and sizes of cranes for use in nuclear power plants, with particular expertise and experience in outage-critical cranes. An outage-critical crane, a polar crane or reactor building crane, is one whose performance has the potential to impact refueling outage duration. As nuclear plants progressively reduce refueling outage durations, crane performance increasingly affects critical-path outage time.
The PaR Nuclear hardware upgrade to PLC-based crane controls (featuring the Magnetek Variable Frequency Drive) meets the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s NUREG-0554 and NUREG-0612, and ASME’s NOG-1 requirements. The upgrade applies to polar cranes, reactor building cranes and auxiliary building cranes. It features:
- “Safety Certified” PLC
- Remote Radio Controls
- Magnetek Drives Major components available are:
- Bridge, trolley, main hoist and auxiliary hoist motors and drives
- Load cell and controller
- Radio remote control
Control enclosures and miscellaneous equipment include:
- Painted or stainless steel
- Nema-4 or 12
Mainline conductor system and wiring offer:
- Separate ground conductor
- Scoreboard display for load and system fault indication