the world of aj power

12 Pages·2015·3.55 MB·English

ISSUE 14 WINTER 2014-15
THE WORLD OF AJ POWER
DiEsEL gEnERATing sETs WORLDWiDE
FOREWORD
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WELCOME
Happy
New Year
Welcome to the Winter
edition of ‘InSight’, the
company magazine of
AJ Power Limited.
Inside you will find what has
been happening in the world
of AJ Power over the last few
months.
I would like to take this
opportunity to thank everyone
for their support for the
magazine and the kind
comments in the past year.
I look forward to 2015 and
bringing you more news from
AJ Power.
Christina
Wishing all our
customers a
Editor Christina stewart
Prosperous New Year
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The opinions expressed in InSight are not
necessarily those of the editor or AJ Power Ltd.
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DISTRIBUTOR STORY
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POWER FOR FOOD
JAMAICA
INDUSTRIAL DEPOT, THE AJ POWER DISTRIBUTOR IN JAMAICA, HAS
RECENTLY SUPPLIED AN AJ33 TO A WELL KNOWN JAMAICAN RESTAURANT
AJ Power distributor, ATS2-125A with solid neutral
industrial Depot, and surge arrestor. A remote
under the leadership communications solution
of Mario Broderick has a has also been supplied to
long standing reputation for work in conjunction with the
offering quality service and InSight3200 control panel.
after sales support to their
numerous clients across the The genset will start
entire island of Jamaica. automatically in the event of
a power failure and can also
They have recently supplied be started from an off-site
an AJ33, Perkins powered location. Given that this
genset for a well known establishment has many
restaurant in Jamaica. fridges and deals with food,
the back up generating set is
The genset is packed with extremely important.
a host of optional extras
including analogue fuel level Well done Mario and thanks
measurement (FM1), low for the photographs.
coolant level alarm (WS1),
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PROJECT - DATA CENTRE, UK
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DEPENDABLE POWER
FOR LONDON DATA CENTRE
3 x AJ2525S, RATED AT 2525KVA STANDBY, 11KV, HAVE RECENTLY LEFT THE AJ POWER
FACTORY, DESTINED FOR A DATA CENTRE IN LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
AJ Power has recently generating sets supplied are SCADA.
supplied and installed 3 each rated 2525kVA, 11kV,
Nos AJ2525 and associated 50 Hz and will operate in Dual-redundant genset
control gear to a flagship Tier N+1 Standby mode with a controllers and Master PLC
3 Data Centre in London, fuel system designed for panels were also supplied to
United Kingdom. 72hrs continuous operation solve the complex nature of
at full load. The generating the clients HV System and
The data centre facility, sets are powered by also to fulfil the needs of
designed to deliver high Mitsubishi S16R2-PTAW meeting Uptime Institute’s
quality customer solutions, engines driving Newage requirements for a Tier 3
has six data halls, all capable Stamford 11kV alternators. certified Data Centre.
of being subdivided to allow
clients to have anything from Each has also been
a cabinet in a shared space, supplied with a complex
to their own suite or data hall synchronising and load
with dedicated power and sharing system including
cooling. Multiple HMI panels for
operator interface and an
The three standby AJ Power internet gateway for client
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PROJECT - DATA CENTRE, UK
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DEPENDABLE POWER
FOR LONDON DATA CENTRE
Complex synchronising and load sharing system, including HMI panels
The genset control system was supplied.
also gave the facility for
synchronisation with the
utility supply during a
no-break return from mains
failure further or a forward
synch for generator testing.
The control system is
designed to be expandable,
giving the facility to add
future gensets as the Data
Centre utilisation and power
demand increases.
Further details of this project
will be supplied in the next
issue of ‘InSight’.
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AJ POWER PRIZE
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AJ POWER PRIZE
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST
AJ POWER SENIOR ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEER EUGENE DEVLIN
ATTENDED THE ANNUAL PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY AT QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY
BELFAST TO PRESENT THE AJ POWER PRIZE.
Dr David McNeill (QUB), Alan Carson (2014 Winner of AJ Power Prize) and
Eugene Devlin (AJ Power) pictured above.
Eugene was invited to The AJ Power Prize is This year Eugene was
Queen’s University awarded to the student pleased to present the
Belfast on Friday 4th who achieves the best award on behalf of the
July 2014 to attend the performance in a diesel company to Alan Carson for
annual prize giving ceremony electric power generation his project on an automatic
for the School of Electronics, final year project. voltage regulator for battery
Electrical Engineering and charging.
Computer Science.
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COMMISSIONING
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JUST ANOTHER DAY
AT THE OFFICE
AN INSTALLATION WITH A VIEW FOR AJ POWER AFTER SALES TECHNICIAN STEPHEN MCGRATH
Stephen is well Extra consideration was
accustomed to given to this installation
camping on the side of as this was a residential
a mountain in Papua New application. The installation
Guinea or the searing heat was complete with stainless
of Africa so it was a pleasant steel exhaust pipe, pipe
change recently when he cladding, sound attenuation
installed an AJ10 Perkins and vibration isolation to
powered generating set at a residential standards. An
private residential property automatic transfer switch
in Northern Ireland, with was fitted in the kitchen
spectacular views. of the property beside the
consumer unit, making it all
Northern Ireland is renowned very neat and convenient.
for it’s rainy weather,
however on the day Stephen Final commissioning and
visited the sun shone and the hand over is due to be
scenery was breathtaking. completed in the coming
weeks.
The AJ10 generating set
was specified as part
of this turnkey bespoke
construction on the shores of
Dundrum Bay. The property
has views looking out over
the tidal bay and across to
the Mountains of Mourne.
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PROJECT NEWS
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NO JOB TOO BIG
GAS TURBINE CASE STUDY
ALWAYS READY FOR A CHALLENGE, THE AJ POWER ENGINEERING
TEAM ExCELS ONCE MORE
64MVA 10.5kV Gas Turbine.
O
ne of our valued The electric motor, once Onerous specified
distribution partners running, would connect to electrical characteristics
presented us with the turbine gearbox via a were also required to
a challenge from a major Voith torque converter to protect the motor. 3 nos.
power utility in 2013. run it up to firing speed. It conventional synchronised
sounded straight forward generating sets with
Provide a generator large enough until the additional oversized alternators to
enough to start a 3.2MW, requirements were limit voltage and frequency
10kV motor direct online mentioned. The load of dips would have satisfied
(DOL) which is in turn 3MW would be presented the requirement but
the starter of a 64MVA in approximately 1 second they were well outside
10.5kV Kraftwerk Union to the starter motor and in the clients budgetary
Gas Turbine. (A typical car turn the generating sets. constraints.
starter motor is less than
2kW).
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PROJECT NEWS
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NO JOB TOO BIG
GAS TURBINE CASE STUDY
Joe Bradley, our Director of Sales,
a chartered electrical engineer with
power plant and network knowledge
spanning nearly 40 years, took up
the challenge of finding a solution
that would meet the clients needs.
He brought together our team of
highly qualified senior electrical and
mechanical engineers to find a novel
method of starting.
This resulted in selecting 2 generating
Gas turbine gearbox, torque converter and clutch to
sets instead of 3, with a special
synchronous alternator.
synchronising system that resulted in
a 30% plus cost saving to the client
but more importantly, coming inside
their budgetary requirements.
Numerous technical meetings took
place with the utility engineers and
our distribution partners before it was
accepted that the theory could be put
into practice.
The onus was on AJ Power to
deliver the solution. The machines
were assembled in our Craigavon
A solution of 2 generating sets with special synchorising
UK factory and, where possible,
system was offered and resulted in 30% cost saving.
the site conditions were simulated
using both reactive and resistive load
with numerous performance traces
taken. The results were in line with
calculations and the machines were
then fitted into acoustic enclosures for
delivery to site.
In December after extensive
commissioning, the project was
handed over to an appreciative
end user.
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DELIVERY COMPANY
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MAJOR DELIVERY COMPANY
NOW POWERED BY PERKINS
An AJ1375, 1250kVA The genset is powered which provides emergency
Prime power Perkins by the 12 cylinder power to the distribution
powered generating 4012-46TWG2A engine centre and has an
set has been supplied for and is fitted with a Newage InSight6000 synchronising
a major parcel and delivery Stamford alternator. This panel fitted which provides
company in the UK. is a standby generating set a seamless synchronised
transition back to mains.
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