IntellSAW Brochure
IntellSAW Brochure
IntellSAW Brochure
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Non-invasive
No power required to sensors
Highly scalable
Real-time, continuous monitoring
Smartgrid
The Challenge: Vulnerability of Electric Power Transmission
& Distribution Infrastructure
These critical assets serve as the critical link between the power generation
source and the end-user. As such, these pieces of equipment determine the
ultimate reliability of the power grid.
When any of these critical assets malfunction the consequences are often
catastrophic. Damage to these assets can be extremely expensive, but that
pales in comparison to corollary damage and the potential hazards to people.
The risk of loss is high including personnel injury or death, equipment
damage, and lost production.
The Solution:
Smart grids will modernize every facet of the electric power delivery
system including generation, transmission, distribution and consumption.
The focus will be on the integration of intelligence into the existing critical
assets. Intelligent critical assets will significantly enhance the efficiency and
reliability of a grid and help utilities avoid blackouts and equipment failure.
Monitoring the temperature of key electrical connection points within the
critical assets provides a leading indicator of potential fault/failure of the
equipment.
UNTIL NOW there has been no satisfactory solution which readily provides continuous monitoring of temperature
within these critical assets while not introducing other potential fault conditions such as arcing, flashover, shorting, etc.
IS485
CAM-4
Real-Time Continuous Monitoring to avoid
the primary causes of asset failure:
Temperature: compromised connections
Partial Discharge: insulation degradation
Humidity: air dielectric breakdown
Up to 12 SAW (passive)Temperature
sensors
Up to 4 Partial Discharge sensors
Up to 8 Humidity sensors
4.3 touch panel HMI for real-time
viewing of system data
Up to 4 Alarm / Trip outputs with
configurable limits
Industry standard communication
interfaces
In electrical engineering,
partial discharge (PD)
is a localised dielectric
breakdown of a small
portion of a solid or
fluid electrical insulation
system under high
voltage stress, which
does not bridge the
space between two
conductors.
Partial Discharge (PD) Damage
IntelliSAW has developed a continuous real-time, online solution for early
warning and trending of internal and surface discharges.
The system does not require an as installed baseline measurement like other
UHF methods and has real-time algorithms to classify the UHF signals as noise,
internal, and surface discharge.
The system is calibrated to a reference source at a reference location; however
the UHF signal received by an antenna varies with the actual PD source
position.
The system will provide early warning detection of PD events affording the
customer the opportunity to take corrective action to prevent failure.
Humidity Sensor
Features:
Relative humidity, ambient temperature, and dew
point measurements
Designed for electrical critical asset environments
4kV surge protection
Addressable, multi-drop bus for up to 8 series
sensors
Optimum Performance
Designed to maximize performance
of IS485 readers
Dual Mounting Options
Either magnetic or bolt mounting
Multiple Mast Options
Optimized for different asset classes
Small Size
Easy to mount in restricted access
compartments
This is the largest stainless steel project in Fujian and the first
steel works constructed by FPG.
The plant is designed for an annual output capacity of 1.8M
metric tons of hot rolled stainless steel coils and cold rolled
stainless steel products with an output value of RMB 30
billion (US $5 billion).
The new steel plant is
approximately 1km in length
and is served by a 220kV
underground electrical feed
that is transformed down to
multiple 35kV feeds which
are distributed to numerous
substations within the plant.
A total of 340 cabinets are being commissioned at Fuxin
Special Steel, each with a 6-sensor IS485 system to monitor
the temperature of critical points in the switchgear.
Solutions:
Nine rectifier stacks were each installed
with an IntelliSAW IS485 critical asset
monitoring unit and six temperature
sensors; 3 sensors on the control
switch incoming bus, and 3 sensors
on the outgoing bus. The IS485 units
were bussed together and the data
was delivered to the control room
using industry standard MODBUS-RTU
communications protocol. The control
system software afforded quick and
simple data integration.
Results:
Despite the plants high magnetic
fields, the IS485 systems operated
flawlessly in an environment often
debilitating to computers and other
electronics. Once integrated into the
control system, data trending was used
directly by the operations engineers
to validate that the rectifiers stayed at
safe temperatures over repeated cycles,
even while increasing system currents.
The system continues to be used for
process control and optimization.
Head Office
100 Burtt Road, Andover, MA 01810, USA
contact@intellisaw.com
+1.978.409.1534
Regional Offices
IntelliSAW LATAM
Calle 100 # 8a-55 Torre C Piso 10
Oficina 1005
Bogot
Colombia
ebaquero@intellisaw.com
+57-1-6467127/65
IntelliSAW China
Suite 1542,
No.222 Hubin Road,
Luwan District Shanghai,
200021 PR China
hsong@intellisaw.com
+86 187 2152 3072
Regional Distributors
USA, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,
Guatemala, Argentina, Poland, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Turkey, Egypt,
South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand,
South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, China, Australia
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