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Campari

Located near Derrimut, Melbourne is a bottling & distribution facility of the timeless classic brand Campari. The electrical engineering team on site suspected that they had poor power factor, a fact that was confirmed once they conducted their power quality measurements. They calculated that a 350kVAr solution would be required and reached out to Fuseco for advice. The installation of a Sinexcel SVG system transformed their electrical environment.

Arc-Flash Relay Increases Electrical Safety in Machine Tool Manufacturing

Pietro Carnaghi SpA, an Italian company, has been designing and manufacturing machine tools for over 100 years. With around 1,500 machines installed globally, they are an industry leader in the production of high-precision, heavy-duty hydrostatic vertical turning and milling centers, movable portal milling machines (gantry), flexible manufacturing cell systems, and multi-tasking machines (Flexturn) that provide innovative, high-performance, and customized solutions. Pietro Carnaghi’s machines are used in the fields of defense, energy (machining of gas, steam and hydro-electrical turbines, nuclear energy and renewable energy), jet engines, aerospace, mining equipment and earthmoving, bearings and general mechanics.

Smart Relay Creates Safety & Efficiency Boom

A large oil & gas exploration company made what is expected to be one of the biggest oil and gas discoveries of the decade in the Permian region’s western part of Texas. The company began evaluating several brands of protection relays to protect their investments in pumps and motors, optimise productivity, and improve safety. After the company’s engineers tried the Littelfuse Bluetooth® Overload Relay MP8000, the company stopped its search and installed MP8000s across the oil-and-gas rich region.

Littelfuse Arc-Flash Relay Saves Plant from Catastrophic Damage

Tim Deschamp from Evans Enterprises, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was working with a customer to help them resolve and reduce a critical issue with an electrical hazard in their furnace control room. An earlier arc-flash analysis had determined that one 480-volt cabinet, which was fed from a 3500 kVA transformer, exceeded an arc-flash Hazard Risk Category 4 (HRC). This meant that a worker was not allowed to approach the cabinet if it was open. The door to the cabinet was therefore kept closed, and everything related to it was done remotely. The problem was that the cabinet, along with the associated transformer, were accessible to employees. This was clearly an unacceptable and unsafe situation.

Deschamp knew that to be able to work on the cabinet or lower required PPE, he needed to find a way to lower the HRC. He selected the PGR-8800 Arc-Flash Relay from Littelfuse, which could be easily retrofitted in to the existing cabinet. This device can lower incident energy by detecting a developing arc flash and sending a trip signal to the breaker within 1 ms. Deschamp was wary of durability and maintenance problems that he had experienced with other relay manufacturers and wanted a solution that would be both reliable and easy to maintain.

Deschamp installed the Littelfuse PGR-8800 Arc-Flash Relay in the controls section of the cabinet, with two light sensors mounted in each of the three power compartments. The trip output of the relay was connected to the shunt trip input of the main breaker.

Cliff Head Off-Shore Oil Rig

The Cliff Head Oil Field Platform (Cliff Head) in located in the Perth Basin about 270 kilometres north of Perth and 12 kilometres off the coast of Dongara in Western Australia. Cliff Head resides in the Production License WA-31-L which covers 72km², and the oil field covers 6km² in the Commonwealth Exploration Permit WA-286-P. Cliff Head is located at a water depth of 15-20 metres and is an integral part of the region’s oil drilling infrastructure.

Dugald River Zinc Mine

The Dugald River zinc-lead-silver mine is situated 65km north-west of Cloncurry in Northern Queensland, Australia, and owned by MMG. It is one of the world’s biggest zinc-lead-silver deposits and comprises of high-grade minerals. Dugald River ore is mined underground using diamond drilling techniques, after which it is extracted to the surface and treated on-site. Concentrate is then transported to the Port of Townsville via rail departing from Cloncurry.

Tritium EV Charger Testing Facility

Tritium designs and manufactures advanced and reliable DC fast chargers for electric vehicles. In Nov 2021, Tritium opened a world-class compliance testing facility at the company’s Brisbane headquarters, featuring an EMC testing chamber with one of the highest power test capabilities in the world, along with other key test and certification enablers including thermal chambers for testing in extreme temperatures.

Biggara Dairy

Prior to Christmas 2023, Fuseco was asked to visit a dairy in the remote highlands of Victoria with Peter Bulle from CoGen Plus. Due to the remoteness of the site, access to clean reliable power was a major concern. Peter enlisted Fuseco’s help to find a solution that would offer his customer optimal performance and profitability. Fuseco recommended installing two Continuum ChargeMaster 10kVA double conversion UPS systems to counter the supply issues.

Selectronic Wantirna South

Selectronic are a power electronics manufacturer that has been operating since 1964 and for the past 30 years, has been specifically developing innovative solutions for the renewables industry.

Storage Tank Manufacturer in NSW

Based near Sydney, this manufacturer specialises in the design, engineering, fabrication & installation of mild and stainless steel tanks in Australia, ranging from 400 litres up to 1 million litres in capacity. Their tanks are fully customisable and used to store water, beverages, animal feed, industrial chemicals, oil, waste liquids and various other liquids. With over 25 years of experience, they have a reputation for high quality bespoke tanks that meet all the relevant Australian Standards. 

Rural Property in Victoria

A rural property brings unique energy challenges. With the power network being the only energy source available, access to reliable cost-effective electricity is important. This includes energy for communications, to pump and heat water as well as to store and prepare food.