Power Quality Audit & Fault Investigation
What is Power Quality & Fault Investigation?
- It is simply an interaction of electrical power with electrical equipment.
- All consumers expect utility companies to supply AC voltage which is purely sinusoidal. The complexity of the system to move electric energy from the point of production to the point of consumption combined with variations in weather, generation, demand, distribution equipment combined with the characteristics of consumer loads and other factors provide many opportunities for the quality of this supply to be compromised. Any deviation from the normal quality of an electrical supply like distortion in voltage & current waveforms is called power quality problem.
- An Electrical Fault Investigation will provide the information required to determine if the interrupting capacities of the power system components are adequate enough to protect your power system from instances of poor power quality.
Why you should improve power quality?
- Based on over Auditors 30 years of field experience, we have found that 85% of power quality problems are caused by consumer load networks.
- Power quality problems have many names and descriptions like Surges, spikes, transients, sags, swells, blackouts, micro interruptions, harmonics, noise, are some common ones which cause tripping of the circuits, burning of equipment & terminals etc.
- Improving power quality can reduce operation problems, breakdowns and thus reduce downtime, improving productivity with a reduction in maintenance cost.
- Electrical networks often go through changes particularly load increase without consideration of short circuit level, type of transformer and distribution design, equipment rating and its characteristics resulting in failures of equipment and problems in the network.
- It will help you avoid extensive equipment and system damage, and personnel injury because of underrated equipment in the event of a fault.
- It can reduce the risk your company faces as well as help to avoid catastrophic losses.
VPS offer end to end solution for Power Quality Issues & Fault investigation
- We can help to identify & mitigate poor power quality issues in your facilities by installing advanced high-speed power quality analyzers and recording equipment at multiple locations with GPS synchronization to monitor& record all electrical power quality parameters.
- We evaluate whether the electrical power is of sufficient quality and whether distortions are being caused by the power source or from the load side and their levels.
- We locate the Faults in the network like tripping of breakers, Fuse blowing, Burning of Electronic Cards, Equipment failure & conduct the root cause analysis of these faults.
- We can offer one roof solution for the improvement of power quality at your facility like designing & implementing Power conditioning equipment like Automatic power factor correction-normal, thyristor-based RTPFC, Detuned or tuned, dedicated harmonic filtration equipment, Voltage conditioning equipment and Ultra Isolation transformers etc.
Benefits of VPS Power Quality and Fault Investigation Service:
- Improved Power system stability, security, and reliability resulting in uninterrupted production and improving profitability
- Reduce breakdowns, Reduction in harmonics, reduced Transmission losses, improved power factor, etc.
- Reduction in maintenance costs.
- Optimized utilization of transmission capacities
- It minimizes potential damage and power disruption to life, equipment and property and injury to human life.
- Causes of faults & source can be quickly detected, reducing the shutdown time
- Protective designs and switching strategies can be refined for preventing future faults.
