PCS100 AVC-20 key applications

Hotels and resorts

Embassies

Sports stadiums

Commercial buildings

Entertainment

Remote locations

Luxury hotels in countries where the electrical infrastructure is poor need to protect their voltage supply to keep critical loads, such as lighting, heating, cooling and electricity supply fully operational to cater for the needs of their guests. ABB provides voltage regulation equipment to Myanmar’s leading luxury hotel residence.

Embassies provide essential services to businesses and individuals alike. Continuous, regulated voltage is critical for the provision of these fundamental services. US embassies in Africa use ABB’s PCS100 AVC's for voltage regulation and power protection to ensure they can continue to meet the needs of their citizens abroad.

Large sports stadiums consume vast amounts of power during events. Given the huge audiences that some events attract, such as the Football World Cup and Olympic games, stadiums in countries where the electrical infrastructure is unreliable need to be equipped to deal with fluctuating voltage supply to ensure continuous coverage. ABB supplied PCS100 units to protect the power supply during the 2015 Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea

Commercial buildings are used around the world to keep global commerce operational twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Therefore a reliable power supply is critical to the success of any business venture and ABB delivers power protection to operations throughout the world. PCS100 AVC's are protecting the Southern Hemisphere’s most powerful climate research supercomputer in Wellington.

Today’s entertainment industry relies heavily on computer generated imagery and visual effects. This requires substantial computing power which in turn relies on a high quality voltage supply. Protecting sensitive and expensive equipment against the potential damage caused by fluctuating voltage is also a key consideration. ABB provides award-winning special effects company, Weta Digital (credits include the Lord of the Rings series and Avatar, two of the highest-grossing films of all time) with the protection it needs to deliver world-class visual spectaculars.

Remote locations often suffer from poor utility supply, which can make commercial operations more challenging. A guarantee of reliable, stable voltage can give you an advantage over local competitors by enabling you to operate continuously, maximizing your productivity. ABB provides power protection equipment to agencies operating in remote corners of all six settled continents.

Medical equipment

Manufacturing

Assembly

Petrochemical

Food and beverage

Oil and gas

Today’s medical advances rely on cutting-edge technology. These machines are very expensive and sensitive, and are prone to shutting down when exposed to voltage sags and swells. A shutdown during a treatment cycle can disrupt the treatment program, and have a direct impact on the patient. ABB supplies medical facilities all over the world with the power protection they need to deliver life-saving treatment. Customers include the Samsung Medical Centre in Korea, who use PCS100 AVC's to protect cancer treatment machines.

Production lines consume huge amounts of power and rely heavily on continuous processes. It is critical that a constant power supply is available at all stages of the production process. Without this assurance, production output can be at risk and vital resources compromised. ABB has installed a power protection solution that is eliminating voltage dips for Sibur Plastic’s workshop, “Styrene” in Russia. This solution is increasing the reliability and continuity of the factory’s power supply by 100 percent, and ensuring their resources are protected.

Assembly plants and process lines use automation to improve productivity. Assembly robots require a steady voltage supply to maintain consistency and quality. ABB has supplied an automotive assembly plant in China with the industry’s largest PCS100 AVC to date to ensure the welding robots and control systems are supplied with regulated voltage.

Petrochemical manufacture is a serious production process. Unexpected shutdown can cause extreme financial loss, which includes raw material wastage and lengthy time recovery. The production recovery may take several hours, even days to get back up to speed. ABB has successfully provided a turn-key solution for a petrochemical plant based in China. With more than 10 sags per year, with three-four causing shutdown, the customer saw this as a necessity to adopt ABB’s PCS100 AVC to protect their production line.

The way we process and package our food has undergone a revolution with increased levels of automation, monitoring and information systems. This has been driven by not only productivity improvement, but also by a host of food safety requirements. Due to the high degree of automation, such facilities are extremely sensitive to power quality events.

With these changes, a high quality of electrical power becomes business critical. This means that food and beverage companies must carefully consider their approach to power protection, as power outage, sags or other voltage disturbances can result in tripping or failure to critical equipment. As a result, depending on the particular process costs relating to product loss and downtime, the overall costs can be significant. ABB’s PCS100 AVC protects food and beverage facilities from disturbances in the electrical supply.

Link to an article about the importance of Power Protection:
The Importance of Power Protection in the Food and Beverage Industry

The petroleum industry can be regarded as the backbone of today’s industrial civilization, continuously providing the majority of the world’s energy. Oil and gas operations are often located in sparsely inhabited, remote areas; ranging from the frigid arctic, to the hot deserts and extreme offshore environments. These environments present a considerable challenge, along with an electricity grid that can be particularly weak in such locations.

To maintain seamless and secure operations in these outlying areas, an efficient, high-quality and uninterrupted power supply is of primary importance. ABB’s power protection products have been integrated into many oil and gas applications. From LNG regasification plants, to floating production storage and offloading vessels, ABB provides voltage regulations solutions for customers in the oil and gas industry world-wide.

Printing

Pulp, paper and wood

Very large machines such as high speed printing presses, and block cutting, folding and gluing machines used in the manufacture of high end packaging materials operate round the clock to offer short lead times to customers. Unplanned stoppages to production equipment cause loss of production and can incur substantial maintenance costs and damage to equipment, as well as taking several hours to clear product from the machines, repair any damage, recalibrate the process, restart and reach normal operational speeds. ABB’s PCS100 AVC regulates supply voltage for a large privately owned printing and packaging company in Jacksonville, Northern Florida.

The production of pulp, paper and wood products is a heavily industrial process which requires significant reliable power resources. ABB’s PCS100 AVC has been installed at Australasia’s largest wood-based products company to prevent voltage fluctuations from disrupting microwave generators used in the production of Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL).

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