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Power Quality Partnership
Power Quality & Utilisation Seminars

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Power Quality and Utilisation Seminars
Quality, availability and efficiency in LV installations

Introduction

These free seminars cover the most important Power Quality and Resilience issues faced by businesses today.  PQ problems lead to unplanned downtime, wasted resources and higher energy costs, yet they can be easily detected in advance by measurement and monitoring, and cured by the application of the most appropriate mitigation techniques.  Best of all, the effects can be avoided altogether by good design practices and by choosing the right equipment. 

If your installation is experiencing any of the following you could have a PQ problem:

  • Computer lock ups
  • Equipment damage
  • Blackouts
  • Flicker
  • Overheating neutrals
  • Nuisance tripping
  • PFC overloading

All the speakers come from a solid technical background and have many years of hands-on experience in the industry.   Individually they are experts; as a group they offer unrivalled expertise in all aspects of Power Quality and related issues.

CDA is an IET Endorsed Provider.  Registration is essential to secure your place.

Who should attend

  • Consultants and Design Engineers who need to design robust and reliable installations.
  • Maintenance Engineers who need to monitor the functionality of installations and ensure continued high performance.
  • Facilities Managers with responsbility for production or business continuity
  • Electrical Engineers and Contractors who need to provide 'right first time' low maintenance, high quality installations.
Attendees should have a technical background and a basic knowledge of electrical installation practice.  No prior knowledge of PQ issues is assumed.

We suggest you scan the PQ primers on our website before the event.  Copy of the presentations will be provided, together with an electronic copy of the full Power Quality & Utilisation Guide.

Typical Programme

9.30-9.55 Registration - Tea/Coffee

9.55-10.15 Introduction - David Chapman, Copper Development Association
Programme, content of the day and speakers.

10.15-11.00 Power Quality and Voltage Disturbances - Stephanie Horton, ERA Technology
The structure of the electricity system, why failures occur and what performance can be expected - what will it be like in the future?   Standard EN50160 defines voltage quality in public supplies.  What does it achieve and where does it fail?  The voltage stability of the network will be discussed in relation to the requirements of the equipment that it supplies.  The compatibility gap between equipment and network will be examined and generic solutions discussed.

11.00-11.15 Tea/Coffee

11.15-12.00 Measurements for Power Quality - Ken West, Fluke
The range of power quality measurements, including thermal imaging, will be described.  The range of power measurement instruments available will be presented with emphasis on correct measurement techniques, instrument selection, safety in measurements and diagnostics.  The value of long term logging as a diagnostic method will be discussed.

12.00-12.45 PQ and Energy Surveys - Steve Robinson, PEML
This presentation will focus on practical power measurement examples using the results of survey work.  Survey planning and management will be discussed.  Typical waveforms and event recordings, illustrating the issues will be presented.

12.45-14.00 Lunch and Exhibition

14.00-14.40 Voltage Quality: Flicker - John Outram, Outram Research
An introduction to the regulatory background, the causes of flicker, how it is measured and various solutions in use for flicker mitigation around the world will be presented together with a look at the current thinking on the subject.

14.40-15.20 Standards for measurement instruments - Ian Murdoch, IMH
The standards for PQ measurement instruments will be discussed and compared.

15.20-16.20 Power Factor Correction and Passive Harmonic Filters - Paul Mainey and Jim Bridgeman, PFC Engineering
The cost of reactive power, supplier tariffs and cost/benefit analysis for power factor correction will be discussed.  Practical aspects of power factor correction and harmonic filtering will be presented, including the relative advantages and disadvantages of passive and active filters, connection topologies and economics.

16.20-16.50 Tea/Coffee

16.50-17.30 Resilient Power Supplies - Leo Craig, Riello
The options for backup power supplies will be discussed and compared.  The relative advantages and areas of application of the various types will be explained.  This presentation will look at the options for voltage disturbance mitigation, such as UPS, DVRs, voltage regulators, etc.

17.30-18.10 UPS Systems and Harmonic Conditioners - Shri Karve, MGE
The technology and topologies used in UPS systems will be presented and their relative advantages and efficiencies compared.   Methods of achieving high availability supplies will be discussed.  The prinicples of harmonic mitigation will be discussed including passive and active filtering and vector cancellation techniques.

18.10-18.25 David Chapman, Copper Development Association

18.25-19.30 Questions and answers, followed by an informal discussion and buffet

Future Programme - Venues and Dates

We do not have any seminars planned at the present time.  If you would like to make enquiries about our future programme, please email helpline@copperdev.co.uk.

CDA is an IET Endorsed Provider