SIMELTCIS PQ

Completely Integrated Solutions

for Power Quality
Ralph-Herbert Backes

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Solutions for Iron and Steel …
Highest power quality for Steel Mills

The challenge:
 Reducing network disturbances and in parallel
increasing the productivity are essential demands
in the iron and steel industry

Our Solution: SIMELTCIS PQ

 proven solutions for improving power quality
 optimum SVC design ensures higher productivity
 innovative strategies to ensure reliable operation

Good reasons for SIMELTCIS PQ:

 Know-how from a single source: combination
of Metals Technology with compensation Know-how
 Compensation system ensure power quality, which
increases production quality
 Utilizing the same hard- & software base for power,
power quality and automation task, result in lower
life cycle investments
 Solid design with more than 100 world-wide references
 High operational safety and continuous availability

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Properties of Large Consumers in the Steel
Industry and their Effects

Properties Effects Solution

∆Pload / SGenerator Changes in turbine speed Static Watt Compensation

/ system frequency (SWC), Supraelectric
Energy Management
System (SEMS)

Voltage distortion Harmonic filter circuits

Iharmonic
Bad utilization of the Capacitors filter circuits
COS  load transmission elements
habilitarum
Long-term voltage Voltage stabilizer (TCR)
∆Qload / SSC changes Flicker

Unbalanced voltage Voltage stabilizer (TCR)

Ineg. seq system with symmetrizing control

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Why Compensation of Steelplants?

Flicker reduction Voltage Improvement Improvement

stabilization of power factor of power quality
(Voltage distortion,
unbalance)

Compliance with Increase No charges Compliance with

utility requirements of production for reactive power utility requirements.
consumption Lower stress of
other equipment
(e.g. drives, pumps)

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Variants for Compensation

Filter Circuits Filter Circuits SVC

Costs $ $$
Power factor improvement yes yes
Reduction of harmonic distortion yes yes
No over compensation no yes
Voltage stabilization no yes
Flicker reduction no yes, up to 2 times

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Application of TCR and Filter Circuits

Thyristor Controlled Reactor (TCR): Filter Circuits (FC):

 long-term voltage stabilization  filtering of harmonics:
1
 flicker reduction jn L +  0 at tuned frequency
jn C
 load balancing
(by individual phase control,
 improvement of power factor:
AC-EAF only)
1 1
jL +  at fundamental frequency
jC jC *

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Static Var Compensation (SVC) with TCR

Filter Circuit ( FC )

Thyristor Controlled Reactor ( TCR )

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Thyristor Valve

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Direct Light Triggered Thyristor Valve

Direct Electrically
Light Triggered Triggered
Thyristor Thyristor
(LTT) (ETT)

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Direct Light Triggered Thyristor Valve

Conventional: Direct Light Triggered:

 Light pulses to a thyristor electronic  Laser pulses directly to the thyristor
module
 Electrical pulses from the thyristor
electronic module to the thyristor itself

voltage detection
electrical gate
pulse
voltage detection
check-back
auxiliary power

check-back signal
logic

optical gate pulse

electric gate pulse
optical trigger signal
check-back signal

Valve Base Electronic Valve Base Electronic

with low power LED with high power laser

ETT LTT

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World‘s First Industrial SVC with Light
Triggered Thyristors and Integrated Overload Protection

Project description
 Static Var Compensation (SVC) 45 MVAr with
Direct Light Triggered Thyristor (LTT)

Innovations
 Light pulse for triggering is applied directly to the LTT
 Laser diodes used for generating the triggering power
 LTT does not have internal gate contacts
 LTT does not need auxiliary energy
 Thyristor protection is integrated in the LTT
(overvoltage protection)

Customer benefits
 Much less vulnerable to electromagnetic interference
 Improved overvoltage protection
 Significant reduction of components on high voltage
 Longer life time of the valve towers
The Task
 Lower Failure Rates and less Maintenance!
Customer: Peiner Träger GmbH
Contract duration: 3 months

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SIMELTCIS PQ References

Installations (for the last 25 years)

49 SVC´s for Drives (Rolling Mills)
68 SVC´s for AC-Arc Furnaces
10 SVC´s for DC-Arc Furnaces
127 Total SVC Installations with a rated power of 8448 MVA

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Contact

Ralph-Herbert Backes
I&S MT IS E

Schuhstraße 60
91052 Erlangen

Phone: +49 (9131) 7-24065

Fax: +49 (9131) 7-26322
Mobile: +49 (172) 2834868

E-mail: ralph-herbert.backes@siemens.com

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Thank you for your attention!

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