Industrial process applications, surge protection

Industrial Process Applications

industrial process applications Modern day industrial facilities contain large amounts of microprocessor based equipment
from control computers to field sensors. High speed data is transferred around a site to allow business decisions to be made which affect productivity and efficiency. The real time data used for such control and decision making would be useless if corrupt and, worse still, the complete loss of such a system due to surges or lightning would impact on productivity and
profits.

Much of the industrial equipment is installed in harsh environments, subject to natural disturbances such as lightning and man made disturbances like switching transients from motors, pumps, welding equipment and variable frequency drives. Small transients and disturbances on the ac or data cables, whilst not causing catastrophic damage, will be slowly stressing the internal microprocessors ultimately leading to degradation which manifests itself as errors or complete failure.

A direct lightning strike can be catastrophic and cause safety related failures and potentially plant shutdowns. The lightning does not have to strike directly even, a nearby strike within a few kilometres can be extremely damaging causing minor failures and potentially stressing control or system hardware.

Surge protection for these industrial process applications can prevent the majority of upsets caused by surges and transients. It is essential as part of the plant infrastructure and can prevent downtime and lost productivity. In all areas reliability will be enhanced increasing availability and uptime. Telematic and Atlantic Scientific have been at the forefront of industrial surge protection for the past 15 years and have the product to protect your facility.