Square D solves a Roller Coaster's Voltage Sag Problem
Paramount King's Island amusement park near Cincinnati, Ohio was one of the first parks in the world to install a roller coaster which uses a linear induction motor (LIM) to electro-magnetically accelerate its vehicles. The Flight of Fear indoor ride's LIM is used to launch a vehicle with 24 riders from 0 to 54 mph in under four seconds. The LIM launch replaces the traditional lift-hill and its relative quietness is ideal for indoor use. Riders are sent through four inversions and more than 50 horizontal and vertical curves in complete darkness. The ride launches a vehicle every other minute creating a voltage sag.
Foresight and An Innovative Power Monitoring System Help Delphi Complex Survive The Northeast's Power Grid Collapse
At 3 a.m. on Friday, August 15, Joe Torr knew he was in for a tough day. Arriving long before dawn at Delphi Corporation's massive Flint East manufacturing complex in Michigan, where he is site facility engineer and energy coordinator, Torr and his team faced the aftermath of the biggest power failure in the nation?s history
Arduous switching, testing and recording of generator test results are almost a distant memory for the VA?s operations people at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Using the VA?s new PowerLogic power monitoring system, Herschel Flannery, the VA?s electrical engineer, now can expediently and accurately prove the reliability of their Emergency Power Supply System (EPSS) and recently upgraded electrical system.
Paper Mill Avoids Increasing Electrical Infrastructure
A paper mill customer wanted to buy a new 250KVA winder but found out that there was not enough current capacity available in their switchboards to support the new winder. A power system study reveled that power factor correction would reduce the current through his switchboards giving the capacity needed for the new winder.
University of New Mexico Is Test Bed For Rebuilding America
An ongoing $53 million capital improvement project dedicated exclusively to energy systems on was underway on the main campus in Albuquerque. As part of the project, the university was building a 12,000-ton chilled water production plant; replacing five boilers with cogeneration units; replacing all chillers; conducting an upgrade of the electrical system; and undertaking a host of demand-side energy management investments. The physical plant utilities engineer needed to justify the energy improvement project, Schuster needed to develop baseline energy measurements, providing the ability to evaluate and improve system performance through analytical and control systems
Automotive Parts Manufacturer Cuts Energy Consumption by Monitoring Multiple Utilities
An international manufacturer launched a major program to cut energy expenditures worldwide. Their mission was to reduce energy consumption with the philosophy; "You cannot control what you cannot measure." With the help of Square D PowerLogic, the customer was able to monitor consumption of all other utilities (water, air, gas, electric, and steam - better known as WAGES), and ultimately reduce energy costs.
Large Steel Mill facilities require relatively large amounts of reactive power to operate. Resultant low network efficiency decreases effective network capacity, creates overloads of network distribution equipment, and inflates Utility bills with low power factor penalties.
Like many plant engineers, Dave Tracy and Jim Vyuerberg of Pharmacia Corporation vividly remember the times when clipboards and shoe leather were the key components in monitoring energy consumption. They and their colleagues had to trek all over the plant to scribble down power meter data, then manually enter it into a spreadsheet program. At Pharmacia?s Kalamazoo, Mich. plant, however, all that trekking and scribbling has been replaced by a power management system that saves time, cuts costs and preserves uptime.
Portable Solves Ground Fault Mystery at Paramount Farms
"I'm very happy we have this monitor now." Victor Gaona reports to his Square D rep. Using the PowerLogic Portable Circuit Monitor, Victor solved the mystery of a ground fault at Paramount Farms in the San Joaquin Valley, CA.
On the afternoon of the biggest power failure in the nation's history, Tim Markijohn was driving on Interstate 90 when Hamot Medical Center's power management system sent an alpha-numeric page to his beeper. That day, Aug. 14, 2003, a cascading failure of the power grid serving the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada left many towns and cities in the dark, and caused voltage in many facilities to swing wildly.
