We provide specialized electrical services and solutions for various industry sectors including oil and gas, utilities, commercial and industrial facilities. Our team include experts in conducting analytical studies to optimize electrical system design and equipment selection. Software tools are utilized to conduct studies including:
- Short Circuit and Equipment Evaluation:
- Evaluate various electrical equipment including switchgears, motor control centers, and transfer switches.
- Assure bus and circuit breaker ratings are selected properly based on applicable ANSI and IEC standards.
- Avoid catastrophic equipment failures during short circuit conditions.
- Protection Coordination:
- Specify protective relaying and circuit breaker settings.
- Maximize system selectivity without compromising equipment protection.
- Minimize downtime and assure production continuity.
- Arc Flash Safety:
- Calculate Arc Flash incident energy and arc flash boundary based on IEEE1584.
- Specify arc flash mitigation solutions to maximize personnel safety.
- Specify Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) based on NFPA 70E.
- Load Flow Analysis:
- Calculate worst case voltage drop during various system loadings and configurations.
- Evaluate transformer and cable loadings.
- Calculate power factor and the interface point with the utility.
- Capacitor bank selection to improve power factor.
- Harmonic Analysis:
- Conduct harmonic analysis based on IEEE399 and IEEE519 standards.
- Avoid equipment premature failures due to harmonics.
- Specify mitigation solutions to mitigate harmonics in the system.
- Motor Starting Analysis:
- Assure static voltage drop is within acceptable limits to reduce impact on sensitive equipment and motors.
- Assure motor acceleration without exceeding motor thermal limits.
- Specify starting solutions.
- Ground Grid Design:
- Calculate step and touch potential based on IEEE80 to ensure personnel safety.
- Substation Ground grid design to meet acceptable standard limits.
- Power Quality Monitoring:
- Quantify system disturbances and harmonics for existing installations.
- Specify mitigation solutions to protect sensitive electronics and major equipment.
Other Services include:
- Switching transient and insulation coordination studies
- Power System stability studies
- Lightning analysis studies.