{"id":8461,"date":"2017-01-10T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treetech.com.br\/articles\/others\/installation-of-automatic-voltage-regulators-and-parallelism-with-circulating-current-method-of-treetech-avr-electronorte-ensa-peru"},"modified":"2021-02-23T23:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T02:35:58","slug":"installation-of-automatic-voltage-regulators-and-operation-in-parallel-by-circulating-current-method-with-treetech-avr-electronorte-ensa-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treetech.com.br\/en\/installation-of-automatic-voltage-regulators-and-operation-in-parallel-by-circulating-current-method-with-treetech-avr-electronorte-ensa-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation of automatic voltage regulators and operation in parallel by circulating current method with Treetech AVR, Electronorte (ENSA) \u2013 Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ELECTRONORTE S.A. \u2013 ENSA, a distribution company located in the north Peru, attends more than 256 thousand clients around Lambayeque, Amazonas and part of Cajamarca, decided to change its automatic voltage regulation system, compounded by MK-20 equipment along with SKB-20, installed in two 17,5MVA – 60\/10 kV transformers made by ABB at the power substation named Chiclayo Norte<\/p>\n

\"Painel_ENSA\"<\/a>That equipment, which served the power substation for years, was no longer presenting the systems’ expected reliability for the company’s current business model, which seeks more efficiency of the new IEDs – Intelligent Electronic Devices – with less maintenance needed, more monitoring functions and with possibilities of connection to the automation of the substation through serial communication with open protocols.<\/p>\n

Additionally, due to the age of these devices, more than 15 years, there were no more spare parts available, maintenance has become expensive and with lingering terms to get back to work.<\/p>\n

The changing was made on February 24th <\/sup>2008, with the presence of the engineer Walter Arenas and the technician Tolentino Ruiz, both from ENSA, and the Logytec SRL engineer Carlos Gonz\u00e1les. The operation started at 5h30 a.m., the power shutdown moment of the substation.<\/p>\n

\"T\u00e9cnicos_ENSA\"<\/a>The first step was identifying the cables, since the previous system used external contactors to adjust the operation in parallel by circulating current, which increased possible failure spots. This problem was solved with the ARV, once this version performs the adjustment by circulating current upon an intern algorithm without any external contactors needed. This way, the numbers of cables decreases, consequently, the number of failure spots decreases as well.<\/p>\n

In addition, AVR relies on six time slots for configuring the regulation. At that case, three of them were configured, at the request of ENSA.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the configuration and communication with the RTU were easily made by the serial port RS-485 and the Modbus open communication protocol.<\/p>\n

Another highlight fact is that, before, the operation in parallel by circulating current was done with two devices per transformer, although, with the AVR, only one equipment is required to do the same thing.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text]

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