Refinery Power System Upgrades Client: Independent Oil Refiner Location: USA A leading petroleum products refiner engaged POWER Engineers to perform a study of the electrical system at one of its refineries to find causes and solutions for disruptive power outages. POWER’s troubleshooting and analysis uncovered numerous problems at the aging station – including old and/or burned equipment, underground obstacles, and undocumented wiring – and our client contracted POWER to design a replacement substation. POWER was responsible for the detailed physical, relaying and control design, construction support and acceptance testing for the new 46 kV substation and 15 kV switchgear at the refinery as well as for replacement of the relaying and 46 kV breaker at the interconnecting substation

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