Drives & Controls - March 2001

Good advice on power quality

Formed by five of the industry’s key organisations, the Power Quality Partnership is a new organisation looking to help you find the best solutions for your power quality problems.

The companies at the heart of the Partnership are the Copper Development Association, Fluke Industrial Division, Rhopoint Systems, MGE UPS Systems and Claude Lyons. Together they can offer advice on power quality, and can demonstrate the capabilities of systems including harmonic reduction equipment, including isolation and zig-zag transformers, and active conditioners.

In particular, the five organisations have joined forces to raise awareness and promote good practice among designers, installers and maintenance engineers. Each of the member companies can give support in its own field of expertise, and provides contacts in other member companies where that is more appropriate.

For further information, the Copper Development Association and the European Copper Institute have produced a free publication, the ‘Power Quality Application Guide’. This reference source provides not only background theory, but also the whole range of solutions from industry. And as it is published in parts, the Guide will be constantly updated to reflect current thinking and leading edge solutions in this fast moving field.

The Guide covers harmonics, resilience, voltage dips and earthing, giving the theoretical background, problem identification, measurement techniques and solutions. Each part to be published will be written by the Power Quality Partners and other technical specialists in their field.

The first ten sections are available now, written in English, and we are told that as the Guide expands it will be steadily translated into other languages.

• Copper Development Association
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