Make automatic power source transfers a success for your plant

Author

Gabba, A. Paul ; Hill, J.D.

Author_Institution

Dow Chem. Co., Freeport, TX, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

28-30 Sep 1998

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

40

Abstract

A systematic approach is presented to analyze the effects of power source transfers on the operation of process plants. Various solutions and guidelines are presented to improve the effectiveness of power transfers. The solutions range from a methodology to analyze and desensitize a plant to a sophisticated high speed auto-synchronizing transfer system. The approach and solutions are based on two and three breaker open-loop (standby “ready to close”) transfer schemes. Normally closed tie breaker transfer systems are not included in the scope of this paper

Keywords

chemical industry; industrial power systems; petroleum industry; power supplies to apparatus; switching; automatic power source transfers; high speed auto-synchronizing transfer system; petrochemical facility; process plants operation; three breaker open-loop transfer; two breaker open-loop transfer; Automatic control; Chemicals; Feeds; Guidelines; Personnel; Power generation; Power system relaying; Power system transients; Production facilities; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Petroleum and Chemical Industry conference, 1998. Industry Applications Society 45th Annual

Conference_Location

Indianapolis, IN

ISSN

0090-3507

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4897-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCICON.1998.727899

Filename

727899