by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Mixed circuit protection, Renewables, Synchromerger, OHL sag, ampacity and dynamic line rating (DLR), Industrial, Synthesis, Line differential protection for complex feeders, Digitalising substations, Component Datasheets, Cable condition monitoring, Wide-area monitoring
The Interrogator is the core product in all Synaptec installations, responsible for performing centralised, light-speed interrogation of every sensor in the array. It fully supports any mix of Synaptec’s electrical and mechanical sensors and performs real-time onboard...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Mixed circuit protection, OHL sag, ampacity and dynamic line rating (DLR), Synchromerger, Line differential protection for complex feeders, Synthesis, Component Datasheets, Digitalising substations, Cable condition monitoring, Wide-area monitoring
Synaptec’s Passive Secondary Converter (PSC) combines industry-standard instrument transformers with Distributed Electrical Sensing (DES) technology, enabling remote circuits to be instrumented passively without data networks, control power, or expensive civil...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Refase, Home Featured, Industrial, White papers
In the past two decades the power sector has steadily increased its investment in optical sensing technologies. At present, distributed fibre optic temperature sensing technologies are widely used by utilities to provide valuable operational ampacity data for...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Synchromerger, Renewables, Synthesis, Industrial, Cable condition monitoring, White papers
Following a severe blizzard in 1888, Hugh Grant, the Mayor of New York, decided to start a global trend of undergrounding power cables to avoid storm damage. Today, global use of underground power cables in transmission and distribution ranges from 20% of the UK’s...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Mixed circuit protection, Refase, Power Grids, OHL sag, ampacity and dynamic line rating (DLR), Synchromerger, Renewables, Industrial, White papers
Synaptec’s distributed sensing platform consists of a compact interrogation device that passively and accurately measures values from a number of sensors measuring any combination of current, voltage and temperature, using a single optical fibre over a distance up to...
by jeremy | Oct 20, 2021 | Power Grids, Refase, Synchromerger, Industrial, Digitalising substations, White papers
As the drive towards a decarbonised, decentralised and digitalised energy industry continues, the industry is increasingly focused on digitalising a core element of every grid – the substation. But digitalising a substation is not without challenges. The initial...
