Covering All the Bases: Industrial Power System Design in a Utility Environment

摘要

TYPICALLY, LARGE LOADS ASSOCIATED with petroleum distribution systems are located in a relatively confined plant area. Scattered distribution systems do not often have very large capacity. The combination of large industrial requirements coupled with the geographic requirements of a utility system calls for a challenging design. One "of the primary duties of electrical engineers in the petroleum industry is the design and construction of power distribution systems. In most other cases, larger systems are located within a defined plant environment [1]. Systems spread over a large area tend to be smaller in load. The scheme discussed here is unique: a large electrical network is spread over a very large geographic area. This creates an exceptional set of circumstances. At the beginning of the design, process, several goals were identified.