First face-to-face meeting with Chinese suppliers
8 Mar 2012
The higher-than-average percentage of women in this field shows that high power technology is not necessarily only attractive to men.
Following the in April 2011 of the Procurement Arrangement for ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's AC/DC converters and the reactive power compensator and harmonic filters, the Chinese Domestic Agency awarded to two domestic suppliers for these systems.
The first face-to-face meeting between responsible engineers from the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, their counterparts from the Chinese Domestic Agency and suppliers ASIPP (for the AC/DC converters) and Rongxin Power Electronic (for the reactive power compensator and harmonic filters) was recently held at ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Headquarters.
The challenge at this stage is to jointly develop the detailed design for ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's power supply components.
The Procurement Arrangement is based on functional specifications describing the technical requirements of the system; the challenge now is to jointly develop the detailed design. "The meeting was very successful and efficient," said Ashok Mankani, Power Converter Project Engineer. "It should be considered a good start on the road to developing a better understanding of the scope of this Procurement Arrangement, the interfaces and the next milestones that have to be achieved."
The AC/DC converters components are essential for supplying DC power to ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's poloidal field coil circuits with the operating requirements of 55 kA and 1.35 kV to 4 kV. The large capacity of 3x250 Mvar reactive power at 66 kV is essential for the stability and performance of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's power system.