1 |13 The customer magazine of the ABB Group source New Zealand
Celebrating 80 years in New Zealand Feature Story 10 2013 marks the 80th anniversary of ABB operating in New Zealand New centre of excellence 04 ABB opens world class research and development centre in Napier Winery triples production 09 ABB’s automation technology increases winery production by 300% Contents
Research and development centre Increasing production Providing power protection and conversion Producing world-class spirits with 04 products to a global market 09 ABB’s automation technology
source 1 |13 2013 marks the 80th anniversary of ABB in power conversion products operations. New Zealand. From supplying generators This business has global responsibility for a to the early hydro stations, to completing range of highly innovative power protection the first HVDC link connecting the main and power conversion products which they islands, ABB is proud to have been a part design, manufacture and sell internationally. of creating our country’s key electricity This kiwi ingenuity will be a key part of infrastructure. On page 10 you can read ABB’s strategy going forward. our brief history and see some photos from our archives. We look forward to providing power and automation solutions to New Zealand for Although ABB’s New Zealand operation many years to come. is a small part of the company’s overall 145,000 employees in 100 countries, Kind regards our 700 employees based over 14 sites Grant nationwide, including three manufacturing Grant Gillard facilities, mean that we have a strong local Managing Director presence, and are a major export earner ABB New Zealand for New Zealand.
In addition to celebrating the past, ABB is also continuing to invest in its future in New Zealand. As you’ll read on page 4, we recently opened a world-class R&D and manufacturing facility for our Napier-based
Source 1/13. Issue 1. April 2013. • Customer magazine from ABB in New Zealand • Copyright 2013 • Editors: Tracey Paver & Tracey Green • Tel: 09 362 1227 Email: [email protected] • Design: Sauvage Design • Any use of text or photos requires the written consent of the publisher.
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Grid stabilisation ABB teams up with 14 Prudent Energy
80th anniversary 10 ABB achieves significant milestone in New Zealand
Celebrating 80 years Stories in short in New Zealand 08 New Plymouth extension increases factory production and personnel 10 Highlights from our involvement in the Annual ABB/Energy News electricity survey electricity and manufacturing industries 17 ABB on show in 2013 ABB website and social media channels 18 MIT Technology names ABB on Top 50 Centre of excellence global innovators list 04 ABB officially opens world-class research and development centre and factory in Napier 14 ABB provides grid stabilising solutions to the New Products renewable energy industry 19 New products introduced to the market
In Control 09 ABB’s automation technology is helping triple production of premium spirit range 16 Contact Energy is enhancing operator effectiveness with ABB’s automation technology
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ABB officially opens new centre of excellence in Napier ABB’s new research and development centre and factory is providing power protection and conversion products to a global market.
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BB officially opened its new This significant investment in times of 6500 square metre research global economic uncertainty reinforces and development centre the importance of the Napier-based design and factory in March, in the and manufacturing operation to ABB’s Hawke’sA Bay Airport Business Park international power electronics business. in Napier. The growth in ABB’s business that is signalled by the new Hawke’s Bay facility ABB’s Napier business has global is not only good news for the local economy responsibility for a range of highly but also the New Zealand research, design innovative power protection and and manufacturing sector as a whole, says power conversion products which they Grant Gillard, Managing Director of ABB design, manufacture and sell globally. New Zealand. “ABB is very committed to Products range from leading-edge voltage New Zealand with three manufacturing conditioners that are used to protect some plants and over 700 people employed. of the world’s largest semiconductor Although we only make up a small (silicon chip) manufacturing plants, through percentage of ABB’s 145,000 employee to frequency converters allowing ships global work force, we are very proud to be to connect to shore power while at port, recognised as a centre for innovation and saving fuel and reducing pollution. a major export earner for New Zealand.”
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01 The official opening was held in a marquee John Penny, General Manager of ABB’s ABB’s new site was blessed in a dawn outside the building to accommodate the Napier-based global business is particularly ceremony by several Kaumātua from 200-plus attendees proud of the new facility. John says, Ngāti Kahungunu. The facility was officially 02 John Penny, ABB’s General Manager LV Power “Napier has a long legacy of excellence opened by local Member of Parliament Converter Products 03 Hon Chris Tremain in power electronics stretching back and Minister of Internal Affairs and Local 04 Hon Craig Foss around 30 years. The new Napier ABB Government, Chris Tremain. Minister of 05 Mayor of Hastings Lawrence Yule, facility secures Napier’s position as a Commerce, Craig Foss, also spoke at ABB’s Managing Director Grant Gillard, true global centre of excellence for our the opening. Mayor of Napier Barbara Arnott and ABB’s General Manager John Penny specialty designs. Many people are 06 The visitors to the site were split into groups surprised to hear that we sell electronic and taken on a tour of the facility products from Napier to protect some of the world’s largest electronics factories that make the silicon chips and displays found on the latest smart phones and tablet computers.”
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ABB increases local production and people presence in New Plymouth
Just before Christmas, ABB opened the doors of its New Plymouth facility to employees’ families and local dignitaries to celebrate the completion of an extension that has increased the factory’s production and local team.
The opening celebrated the milestone of the completion of 600 sqm of factory extension and the installation and/or upgrading of 16 significant pieces of equipment that have increased production Ken Mulcock (ABB’s NZ CFO), Mario Corsi (ABB’s distribution transformer product group manager capacity by around 30 percent to support based in Italy), Deane Hogg, and Jonathan Young (Member of Parliament for New Plymouth) at the the Australian market. This increase official opening in production has subsequently led to the employment of an extra 25 locally- based employees to cater for a second production shift.
The transformer plant, which produces small distribution transformers from 15 kVa to 2.5 MVA up to 33 kV, has been in Bell Block in the same site since the 1960s.
Factory tour of the completed extension
New Zealand Electricity Survey 2013 ABB and Energy News team up again to capture the voice of the industry
Following on from the success of the inaugural Energy News and ABB New Zealand Electricity Survey in 2012, the 2013 survey has just closed and the survey results will be available soon.
The survey was open to all 5000 readers of About Energy News Energy News, New Zealand’s online news Energy News is New Zealand’s online and information service for the energy news and information service for the sector (www.energynews.co.nz). energy sector.
The survey questions and range The website (www.energynews.co.nz) of responses were again designed was launched in 2008 and now boasts by an advisory panel that was chaired over 5000 readers every month from by John Hancock from HP. The survey 240+ subscribing organisations. Its questions ranged from discussing readership consists of New Zealand competition and soft demand, to energy sector organisations and services electricity affordability companies spanning the electricity, oil and gas, petroleum and alternative energy The results will be made available via the value chain. The subscription-based site Energy News website and ABB’s website, provides executive interviews, news, www.abb.co.nz. If you are interested in opinions and commentary on a daily basis. receiving a notification on the release of It also hosts a suite of information resources the results by email, please contact Tracey including two large databases of the sector Paver ([email protected]). participants and energy resources.
8 ABB source 1|13 In Control Winery triples production with ABB’s automation system Waiwera Organic Winery’s production is now running 24/7 and has increased 300%, courtesy of ABB’s automation technology
Background Waiwera Organic Winery (WOW) was formed by Alex Kirkchuk in 2012, after many years of experimenting in his shed.
The unique patented distillation process uses dry wine from wineries, which allows for very efficient distillation of ethanol, to use in their products. Traditionally alcohol is made by the distillation of fermented substances such as grains, potatoes or sometimes fruits or sugar, however this process can leave traces of impurities, unwanted chemicals and flavorings. By using dry wine that had already been naturally fermented, Waiwera Organic Winery, based north of Auckland, was able to create ethanol organically without such impurities.
World class distillation system Although their process has been refined over many years, the hands-on nature of this process had its limitations. To allow The new Compact HMI 800 system provides for larger scale production of the product the operators with all of the information at Proudly made in New Zealand, range, Waiwera Organic Winery needed a their fingertips with the additional benefit Waiwera Organic Winery’s reliable, state of the art automation system of remote access so the process can be handcrafted range of the finest to ensure production of the range could controlled and monitored securely from beverages is represented by a be operational 24 hours a day, seven days anywhere in the world. By implementing family of sophisticated wines, a week. this control system, and production being spirits, beers and liqueurs. operational 24 hours a day, seven days a www.waiweraspirit.co.nz The process control system was week, it has allowed for production of the implemented by N2P Controls using product range to increase by 300 percent, ABB’s AC500 PLCs and Compact HMI according to Wayne Avery, general manager 800 SCADA. This solution for the control for Waiwera Organic Winery: “The system system provided an economically efficient has been a huge success for the production and fully featured, reliable automation of our product range. It has allowed us system for control over the automated to triple our production ability and ensure process of the distillery. ABB’s local control from any location. We are now engineering support provided technical successfully manufacturing premium spirits assistance to N2P Controls to deliver this mostly for export, including premium vodka Waiwera Organic Winery’s premium product range unique solution. The new system required to Russia.” two PLCs to control the two batched stages, each having multiple distilling units. The system allows for future expansion of the distillery and easy integration of any new equipment.
ABB source 1|13 9 Celebrating 80 years in New Zealand Providing automation and power solutions in NZ for 80 years This year ABB has achieved the significant milestone of being a part of the New Zealand electricity and manufacturing industries for 80 years. The founding company for ABB in New Zealand was ASEA, which was incorporated as a subsidiary of ASEA Electric NZ Limited on 9th March 1933. This was not the beginning however, as ASEA had been selling products to New Zealand for many years, prior to 1933, with the first delivery of a transformer to a Wellington customer in 1898, and the supply of hydro generators in the 1920s. We look back at just a few of the key features of ABB’s history in New Zealand.
Hydro This is probably the earliest known photograph of ASEA equipment in NZ. In 1925 ASEA supplied a 200 kW generator for the Wairere Power Station in the King Country, with a second machine of 250 kW delivered in 1938. Other early ABB products of note for the hydro industry included the supply of three 18,000 kVA generators for the Arapuni Power station in 1930, and a 23,333 kVA generator for Atiamuri in 1956.
A hydro generator stator being produced in Sweden for New Zealand in the early 1900s.
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Prime Minister Robert Muldoon with Mike panel at the opening of Aniwhenua Power Louden, Managing Director of ASEA, Station in Bay of Plenty in 1979. viewing the ABB NZ manufactured control • ABB (Then known as ASEA Electric NZ Limited) showed a profit in its first year (1933) in NZ of £46. Its turnover in 1933 was £8,795, which jumped to £42,000 the following year. • The first 3-phase motor connected to the New Zealand Government’s hydro-electric supply was an ASEA motor. • The first synchronous induction motor ever used in New Zealand was an ASEA machine. • Mokauiti, one of the first remote controlled power stations in HRH Prince Charles looking at the ASEA along with Hon. Bill Birch, Minister of New Zealand, was engineered supplied VDU on the remote control Energy, in 1981. by ASEA in New Zealand, supervisory equipment at Waitaki station, using ASEA control equipment. • Most of the original electrics at Whakatane Board Mills HVDC were supplied by ASEA. ASEA’s HVDC technology was an integral • The first robot to be used in part the ±250 kV, 600 MW HVDC Interisland the motor vehicle industry in Link between Benmore in the South Island New Zealand was supplied and Haywards in 1965. by ASEA. • In 1988 ASEA merged with This was not only the third link of its kind BBC to create ASEA Brown in the world, but also unique because the Boveri (ABB). voltage and current were considerably higher than had ever been attempted.
In 1992, the grid owner, Transpower, upgraded the HVDC link to 1240 MW. ABB built the new converter stations for this and supplied and laid the new submarine cable across Cook Strait.
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Manufacturing
Site prior to clearance and build
Henderson On 18th July 1985 the site clearance began for the new headquarters of ASTEC. The new site included five large buildings catering for low voltage switchgear, sheetmetal/painting, medium voltage switchgear, control products and instrument and control transformers. Production commenced mid-1986*.
ABB’s Medium Voltage Switchgear design and production facility still occupies the original site today. In 2012, ABB celebrated the production of its 25,000th SafeLink switchgear product. The factory currently supplies SafeLink to a local and global market that includes Australia, Jordan and the Netherlands.
*In the mid 1980s ASEA took over a 51% shareholding in Tolley Ltd, manufacturers of transformers and switchgear, which later changed its name to ASTEC (ASEA Tolley Electric Company)
Birdseye view of full site in 1990
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New Plymouth Today, the factory still produces ABB has been manufacturing distribution transformers, from distribution transformers in 15 kVa to 2.5 MVA up to 33 kV, Bell Block, New Plymouth for a local market, as well as since 1966, initially as ECC internationally for Australia and (Transformers & Controls). the Pacific Islands.
Napier ABB has recently invested in a Vectek (initially Vectron new R&D and manufacturing Industries) founded in 1995 facility in Napier (see page 4). in Napier by Keith Valentine, Vernon Pryde, Murray Porteous, Simon Walton and John Penny, was acquired by ABB in 2008. Vectek’s power conversion technology, including the Active Voltage Conditioner (AVC), is produced in Napier for an international market.
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ABB’s Christchurch workshop ABB recently celebrated 10 (pictured left) was opened years onsite as maintenance in 1988. In the mid-1980s service providers at Carter some major acquisitions were Holt Harvey’s Kinleith Mill. made to implement a new Today, ABB also manages service strategy, including substation service contracts a workshop for rotating for Transpower in Taranaki, machines in Hamilton and the Waikato and Hawke’s Bay, as service activity of Electrix Ltd well as hydro generation service in Auckland. for Mighty River Power in the central North Island.
ABB source 1|13 13 Centre of excellence Storage systems for smart grids
Prudent Energy, together with ABB’s power conversion The smart grid solution specialists based in Napier, New Zealand, are providing ABB’s PCS100 energy storage system (ESS) technology is being incorporated into grid stabilisation solutions to the renewable energy Prudent Energy’s overall Vanadium Redox industry. From Slovakia to China, ABB and Prudent Battery (VRB®) Energy Storage System Energy, a leading green energy company, are applying – a long-life, environmentally friendly “flow battery” system. The PCS100 ESS the technology to store energy from the electricity grid works by charging the VRB battery voltage and return it when required. This offers a range of up to the designed range, helping regulate options to strengthen and enhance the performance, the power flow by discharging power to the grid during unstable events, such as quality and reliability of smart electricity grids. extreme weather conditions.
To maintain efficient transmission and distribution, the active and reactive power balance in a system needs to be controlled. Inadequate active and reactive power management can result in high network losses, equipment overloading, unacceptable voltage levels, voltage instability and even outages.
The PCS100 ESS battery solution can help energy storage devices, such as batteries, achieve stable storage and release of electrical energy through frequency modulation and voltage regulation. For a power system, PCS100 ESS is just like a conventional synchronous generator, featuring power electronics and advanced control technologies. Its inertial characteristics depend on the internal control system, which is aligned to the grid frequency, and its change and energy conversion is recognised on this basis.
About Prudent Energy
Prudent Energy is the designer, manufacturer and integrator of the patented Vanadium Redox Battery (VRB®) Energy Storage System – a long-life, environmentally friendly “flow battery” system. Founded in 2007, the Prudent Energy group of companies maintains corporate offices in Bethesda, Maryland, and Beijing, China, with research, development, and assembly facilities in the United States, Canada and Asia.
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Prudent Energy and ABB’s technology at work
01 02 03 Strengthening power Renewable “golden ESS first for ABB on on Indonesian island sun” project in China Jeju Island, Korea
ABB’s ESS technology was first incorporated To cope with China’s ever increasing ABB and Prudent Energy installed their by Prudent Energy to provide real and energy demand and to focus on renewables solution in a laboratory on Jeju Island, reactive power to Sumba, a small island as part of the country’s energy strategy, Korea, which contains wind turbines and in eastern Indonesia which has suffered the China State Grid (SGCC) initiated solar cells. from poor power supply. the “golden sun demonstration project” in Zhangbai county, Hebai province In 2006 Korea established the “Energy The technology is helping to provide to test the available technology. Basic Law” which created a suite of incentive power to the island when the main grid is and support programmes to encourage a interrupted, generating a smooth output The project involves 100 MW shift towards a more sustainable energy of power, and increasing the renewable windpower, 50 MW solar and 20 MVA generation base. These programmes energy accommodation capability. energy storage systems, split into included such things as the building smaller slices and supplied by different of 100,000 green homes, special Along with the PCS100 ESS, ABB supplied technologies and manufacturers. This is financing tools and tax models for local a circuit breaker, transformer, DCS800 drive to allow SGCC to evaluate and benchmark governments utilising green technology, and a PLC (programmable logic controller). different concepts and technologies and and mandatory use of renewable energy also to test system performance for in new public buildings. Stabilising microgrid different applications. Jeju Island, situated on the southern tip in Slovakia Prudent Energy and ABB delivered a of the Korean Peninsula, is the biggest 2 MVA Energy Storage System based on island in Korea. The regional government ABB and Prudent Energy provided a Prudent’s VRB Vanadium Redoxflow battery is keen to utilise a high percentage turnkey solution, incorporating ABB’s 100 and ABB’s PCS100 ESS power converter of renewable power generation for kW PCS100 ESS, PLC (programmable logic technology integrated with transformer, the island. ABB’s PCS100 ESS converter controller) system, transformer and circuit switchgear and control (PLC). The system technology is able to establish a grid breaker with Prudent Energy’s specialised will be used for multiple application tasks, on its own, similiar to a synchronous VRB® battery, to a pioneering microgrid such as smoothing renewable energy generator, therefore allowing renewable customer in Slovakia. output, peak shaving and frequency energy to connect to the grid. Together regulation. At that time it was also the with Prudent’s VRB, a small demonstration first Megawatt class installation in China and test system was installed at the for ABB and Prudent Energy. island’s laboratory to investigate the best power system topology and control strategies. The project is significant for ABB, as it is the first battery energy storage system in Korea 01 The complete solution of ABB’s PCS100 and is helping provide the capacity for the ESS paired with Prudent’s VRB Energy Storage System storage or release of 200 kWh of energy. 02 ABB’s 2 MW PCS100 ESS that will help complete the energy storage function For the full application notes on these projects with Prudent Energy or more information, please contact: 03 ABB’s PCS100 ESS and Prudent’s VBR Energy Sophie Benson-Warner Storage System that has been installed on ([email protected] Juju Island, located between Korea and Japan or 06 975 5436).
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ABB’s 800xA solution has helped Contact Energy better remotely manage and monitor their geothermal power stations, in an operator environment that will easily expand to cater for future sites.
Background The system was staged in parallel Multi-site integration and Contact Energy currently has 11 power with the existing site control system, expansion capabilities stations across New Zealand, four of providing a low risk migration option for ABB’s 800xA control system not only gives which generate electricity using geothermal Contact Energy. This meant no unplanned Contact Energy seamless multisystem energy: Wairakei, Ohaaki, Poihipi and down time for the plant and increased integration, which lets them control Te Huka. The geothermal power stations, operator familiarisation before the system multiple systems from the Wairakei power all in the North Island, are remotely operated was bought into operation. station, but also allows for a system which via a geothermal group control room based ensures future projects can be easily at Wairakei. Contact Energy’s existing HMI Alarm management improves integrated. With a number of site expansion control system was installed in 2002 and productivity projects underway, it was important for was becoming increasingly unreliable. The 800xA system upgrade allowed for Contact Energy to have a system that The system was based on a PLC/SCADA improved handling of alarms and events catered for seamless integration of these architecture that required additional as well as integrated alarm management. expansion projects. engineering time and complexity. A new Filtered and pre-configured alarm lists and system was needed to provide a reliable integrated online real time performance Mathew Staddon, Electrical Engineer platform to operate the existing stations analysis enables the operators to easily for Contact Energy, says, “ABB’s and easily incorporate new generation sites. identify and respond to process alarms. 800xA has a large range of benefits This reduces the time required to identify and expansion capabilities that have Upgrading to ABB’s 800xA with no them, providing more time to respond to greatly helped Contact Energy deliver unplanned down time disturbances, increasing the effectiveness recent projects like the Bioreactor and ABB provided Contact Energy with three of the alarm system to improve productivity Te Mihi Steamfield expansion.” 800xA control systems, at three of their and safety. four geothermal power station sites, Wairakei, Ohaaki and Te Huka. The HMI control system upgrade was completed Geothermal energy in brief over an 18 month period. This involved building new control system servers for In New Zealand, geothermal energy is a small but significant part of the each system and renewing the operating energy generation capacity, providing approximately 10 percent of the screens with a new layout, navigation country’s electricity with installed capacity of over 700 MW. It is produced system and colour scheme. The new by extracting geothermal fluid from the ground via production wells that can layouts are based on the principle of vary in depth from a few hundred metres to 2.5 km. Once at the surface, abnormal situation monitoring which the fluid is separated into two streams, one of steam and the other of water. declutters the operator screens and uses The steam is then used in a turbine to generate electricity and the hot colours to attract the operator’s attention geothermal water is injected back into the ground for reuse. to plant faults.
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ABB on show – 2013 Drives ACS880
ABB at WIOG (Water Industry Roadshow Operations Group) 2013 “People First” 29-31 May 2013 The next generation in industrial Ascot Park Hotel, Invercargill drives is here. During the coming ABB will be sponsoring the “Taste months our team will be travelling of the South” pre-dinner function. the country with a promotional For more information about WIOG roadshow to launch ABB’s new please contact your local sales engineer, ACS 880 industrial drives range. or visit www.wiog.org.nz The roadshow will highlight how our new technology will help you save energy and money.
For more information and to book a visit to your site, please contact Chris Eccles [email protected] 021 680 755 ABB at ENEX New Zealand’s Oil – Enabling operational excellence through and Gas Event 2013 “Growing integrated collaborative environments New Zealand’s oil and gas capability” – Improving safety and achieving a 6-7 June 2013 greater efficiency life-cycle approach TSB stadium, New Plymouth and services This year at ENEX, ABB will be showcasing – Product and solution development an interactive display of a total ABB oil – Reference projects and gas solution. For more information about ENEX please ABB’s speaker at ENEX contact your local sales engineer, or visit On day one of the conference, ABB’s Shane www.enex.co.nz Archer, Local Business Unit Manager, Oil & Gas, ABB Australia, will be covering: ABB on social media
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ABB at EEA 2013 “Celebrating 125 years – Stephan Hoffarth and Bernhard Richter of Electricity supply in New Zealand – from ABB Switzerland Development of Electricity past and future” Surge Arresters – particularly in energy 19-21 June 2013 handling, stability and safe design Sky City Convention Centre, Auckland – Matthias Baechle from ABB Switzerland: Over the last 80 years, ABB has been a Interactions between the PSS (power significant contributor in helping to power system stabiliser) and the static excitation New Zealand’s grid. system of a synchronous generator; the effects and issues that may evolve This year at EEA, ABB will be reflecting and the possible solutions to these. this theme both on the stand and through paper presentations. For more information please contact your local sales engineer to organise ABB’s speakers at EEA a time during the event, or visit – Managing director of ABB New Zealand, www.confer.co.nz/eea Grant Gillard: Development of both New Zealand’s power landscape and ABB through the years, from both a design and technological perspective
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High voltage test facitily MIT Technology Review names ABB on its list of Top 50 global innovators ABB’s development of a high voltage DC breaker will help shape the grid of the future
MIT Technology Review, the official the efficient integration and exchange The development of the Hybrid HVDC science and technology journal of the of renewable energy sources on a large breaker has been a flagship research Massachusetts Institute of Technology scale and enable the construction of a project for ABB, which last year invested (MIT), named ABB in its 2013 list of top new more efficient grid able to transport more than $1.4 billion in R&D and employs 50 global innovators. electricity over very long distances. about 8,000 researchers. DC grids will also enhance the reliability ABB was cited for a technology breakthrough and capacity of existing AC (alternating HVDC technology is needed to in 2012 that solved a 100-year-old electrical current) networks. ABB is in discussions facilitate the long distance transfer engineering puzzle and paved the way with power utilities to identify pilot projects of power from hydropower plants, for a new generation of highly efficient for the new development. the integration of offshore wind power, and reliable power transmission grid. the development of visionary solar After years of research, ABB developed the “ABB’s historical breakthrough will make it projects and the interconnection of world’s first circuit breaker for high voltage possible to build the grid of the future and different power networks. ABB pioneered direct current (HVDC). It combines very fast will be a big boost for renewable integration. HVDC nearly 60 years ago and continues to mechanics with power electronics, and We are proud that the MIT Technology be a technology driver and market leader. will be capable of interrupting power flows Review acknowledges the significance With over 70 HVDC projects, ABB accounts equivalent to the output of a large power of our innovation,” said Prith Banerjee, for around half the global installed base, station within 5 milliseconds - that is 30 Chief Technology Officer of ABB. “This new representing an installed capacity of more times faster than the blink of a human eye. technology will make it possible to build than 60,000 megawatts (MW). the grid of the future. Overlay DC grids The breakthrough removes a 100-year- will be able to interconnect countries and old barrier to the development of DC continents, balance loads and reinforce transmission grids, which will enable the existing AC transmission networks.”
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Drives ACS880 low voltage industrial drives
Simplify your world without limiting your possibilities
ABB’s new low voltage AC drive portfolio is built on a common architecture specifically designed to simplify operation, optimise energy efficiency and maximise output. The new architecture enables the drives to control virtually any type of AC motor, and interface across all major fieldbus protocols as well as remote monitoring solutions. Compatibility is key, with users enjoying many more convenient functions for easy Advantages selection, installation, fast set up and maintenance, with integrated −− Wide range of safety features – built-in safety features. safe torque-off These drives come in nine frame sizes (R1 to R9) with a power −− Direct torque control (DTC) – provides range from 0.55 to 250 kW, and voltage range from 380 to 500 V AC. precise speed and torque control for With enclosure classes IP21 as standard, the drives are compatible all applications with a wide range of industries and are customisable to the precise −− Energy efficiency needs of many applications. −− Remote monitoring – built-in web server Further info: www.abb.co.nz/drives enables worldwide access to drives −− Flexible product configurations – EMC filters, braking options and different enclosure variants Power protection PCS100 Reactive Power Conditioner (RPC) Power protection for commercial and industrial applications
Specifically designed for industrial and commercial applications, the RPC is able to respond instantly to power quality events, while providing continuous reactive power correction. Due to its state of the art inverter technology, the compensation is step-less, unlike many other solutions, which minimises disturbances and ensures seamless power conditioning. Power factor, voltage imbalance, flicker, inrush generated sags and harmonics are common power quality problems that can result in financial penalties and costly Advantages electrical equipment malfunctions if left uncorrected. −− Modular design providing high reliability The PCS100 Reactive Power Conditioner (RPC) is designed to and short repair times solve these problems. The RPC conditions the current drawn by the −− Integrated solution for power factor customer’s load. Thus making it a good family fit with ABB’s other correction, harmonics and inrush products in the PCS100 power protection family such as the UPS-I generated sags and AVC. −− Small footprint Further info: [email protected] −− Ratings from 100 kVA to 2000 kVA and voltages 380 VAC to 480 VAC
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The new ABB industrial drives simplify your world because they are all-compatible. The ACS880 drives are designed to tackle any motor-driven application, in any industry, whatever the power range. The drives can be flexibly connected to different automation networks, and through the use of direct torque control, they precisely control different motors such as AC induction and permanent magnet motors. Yet, despite the drives’ wide-ranging capability, they are remarkably easy to use and integrate. To learn about our new industrial drives and the benefits they can offer to you, visit www.abb.com/drives