Good power is crucial to business continuity and cost reduction.
With the increasing incidence of violent storms, there is a greater potential for damage and disruption to normal operations.
Voltage spikes and transients due to lightning or high wind causing poor connections may be catastrophic if the event is direct.
However, spikes and transients and harmonic distortion can create ongoing cumulative damage.
Transients can affect the accuracy of electronic instruments and create faults that are difficult to analyse and diagnose, shortening their life.
They can affect motors by causing overheating and damaging insulation
And they can damage lighting, reducing the life of fluorescent tubes.
Finally, these transients can damage your power network itself, degrading the contacts of breakers and switches.
Evotec can carry out a certified audit of your power system and analyse your power conditioning requirements.
We can recommend a solution that will protect your power network and IT systems and reduce your ongoing maintenance costs.
Reducing the Power Factor of your network is also important. In addition to the power used by equipment, heating, lighting – known as real power – your site also draws power which is not directly used, known as reactive power. The combination of two is known as apparent power. Power Factor is the relationship between real and apparent power (kVA). So your Power Factor is a metric of your power efficiency. If your site has a poor Power Factor, you are wasting money on energy that cannot be used.
Our power network analysis equipment can identify areas where you can improve your power factor to make ongoing energy savings.