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Application for Metals, Utilities
Industrial plants are subject to electric disturbances as a result of the connection of consumers with short time varying loads. These electrical disturbances affect the quality of power as follows:
- Low power factor, that increases the cost of electrical energy consumed by the plant
- Generation of harmonic currents, therefore alteration of the voltage waveform that cause power transformers to be overloaded and sensitive loads to malfunction
- Permanent and fluctuating voltage drops, that may cause reduced productivity, including unscheduled plant downtime
- Imbalance between line voltages
- Generation of a voltage wave modulation (flicker) that can disturb plant lighting.
Static Var Compensation systems (SVC) provide the most effective solution both in terms of cost and timely installation.
As a specialist of industrial power compensation Converteam offers cost-effective SVC systems that improve the power quality and enhance the productivity of industrial plants for a variety of applications such as:
- Arc furnaces
- Metal rolling mills, mining and other heavy industries
- Large electric motors.
Thyristor Controlled Reactors (TCR) combined with the capacitor banks are the active part of the SVC. The variable reactive power consumed by the load is counter-balanced by the fixed power supplied by the capacitor bank and the the controlled power absorbed by the TCR.
The capacitor banks are tuned with shunt reactor for mitigation of harmonics.
Converteam offers proven technology for direct connection of the TCR to either 33kV or 63kV network.