Real-Time Power Quality Analysis Software Solution

Resolve Power Quality saves time and money by prolonging equipment life, increasing factory uptime and enhancing safety and helping you avoid utility MIC charges.

Introduction

Good power quality prolongs equipment life, increases uptime and enhances safety and compliance - saving you time and money. Power quality issues, on the other hand, can damage equipment, cause downtime and increasing your utility bills resulting in a drain on your organisations bottom line.

ResourceKraft Resolve is designed specifically to analyse power quality in a precise and scalable manner, allowing you to focus on the job at hand. ResourceKraft Resolve is power quality is made simple. Resolve is designed to streamline power quality monitoring enabling real-time remote analysis.

Resolve allows engineers to view ultraprecise results immediately and remotely from the convenience of a web or mobile device. This enables the engineers to identigy issues quickly and easily, saving valuable time and money.

Monitor Power Quality can prolong equipment life, reduce utility bills and increase uptime

Poor Power Quality in Numbers.

€150 Billion

Total annual cost to EU business due to Power Quality issues*

80%

Power Quality disturbances generated inside facility**

4%

Annual turnover in industry caused by poor Power Quality*

*LPQI Survey **EPRI Survey

Why is Power Quality Monitoring Important?

Plant management know that poor power quality is hard to identify without the right tools and it can show up in a myriad of places in your manufacturing plant.The cause of a majority of motor failures is power quality problems. Poor power quality can damage variable speed drives, process controllers, PLCs, and generate massive utility bill charges. Stop replacing failed motors, dealing with factory down-time and paying additional utility charges without resolving the underlying root cause.

ResourceKraft Resolve Power Quality Monitoring reports on kW, kWh, kVar, amps, Power Factor, Harmonic Distortion, Sags and Swells, Frequency Variation and much more. Resolve is a scalable, web-based power quality analysis and real-time metering system for the enterprise. It allows you to view ultra-precise results immediately from the convenience of your mobile or desktop device.

It has the ability to query millions of power quality events across your whole estate in just seconds. It records every type of AC power disturbance including 4 MHz sampling of impulses—Class A certified, ultra-precise revenue-grade energy meter.

ResourceKraft Resolve uses ResourceKraft Canary hardware with Virtual private network over Mobile Phone Networks resulting in enhanced security levels.

Resolve Real-Time Power Quality Dashboards

Resolve is a real-time, web-based power quality monitoring system for enterprise.

It provides organisations with many benefits, particularly when compared with traditional handheld devices, such as:

View ultra-precise event data live from the convenience of your mobile device.

Query millions of Power Quality events across your whole estate in just seconds.

Quickly identify issues without the need for pre-defined, lengthy sampling periods, allowing speedy remediation that saves time, money and potential equipment downtime.

Cycling loads coupled with real-time mobile monitoring, while surveying a facility, allows fast identification of troublesome equipment.

Verify data integrity from first install, as corrupt data, incorrect connections or settings are immediately visible via the software, saving valuable time and effort.

Refine hardware thresholds remotely without the need for site visits, shutdowns or Live Works Permits.

Get true insight into site power quality events with high resolution sampling of over 500 samples/cycle.

Save money by mitigating excess MIC charges with automated load shedding option.

Features & Benefits

Web-based Power Quality analysis and real-time metering system for the enterprise.

Supports the deployment of between 1 and 1,000 high-end power quality analysers, at multiple locations in your business.

Report on kW, kVar, kWh, amps, PF, harmonics and much more.

All communications via secure 4G LTE independent of your IT infrastructure.

Share the data across your organisation with multiple logins.

Product reports conforming to EN 50160.

Resolve records more than AC power

ResourceKraft Resolve goes beyond just AC power too. It can potentially record environmental data, such as:

Temperature

Humidity

& Barometric Pressure

Vibration

3 Axis

Acceleration

Torque

RPM

Fuel Levels

Water Flow

Transformer Performance
- Monitor both the Primary & Secondary of a transformer and graph over time.
Transformer Deterioration
- Monitor Operating Temperature (Overloading can cause high temperatures while low temperatures could be indicative of oil leaks).
- Prevent unplanned maintenance/outages with planner interventions.
Transformer Environment
- Monitor external temperature, humidity and vibration which may be caused by poor/loose internal or external connections.

Battery Performance
- Charge/discharge levels graphed over time
- Battery loading
Battery Deterioration
- Charging speeds (Reducing towards end of life)
- Cell temperatures. (Increasing due to defective cells or overloading)
- Environmental temperatures (low temperatures slow chemical reactions causing gassing and metal plating)
- Rising internal resistance (due to age or defective cells)

Specifications

Monitor up to two three-phase loads, or eight single-phase loads.

Connects directly to voltages up to 690V.

Certified for Class A power quality according to IEC 61000-4-30 Ed3.

Computes 4-quadrant ANSI Class 0.2 revenue–grade energy on eight single-phase channels.

Detects and records high-frequency impulses at 4MHz.

Measures in real-time and records 2kHz ~ 150kHz emissions.

Product reports conforming to EN 50160.

Frequently Asked Questions

Power factor is the ratio of real power (or working power) measured in kilowatts (kW) to apparent power (or demand power) measured in kVA. Power factor expresses the efficiency of the power being provided. It is found by multiplying (kVA = V x A). The result is expressed as kVA units. If a circuit were 100% efficient, demand world be equal to supply. Many utilities add a demand charge to the bills of large customers to account for the instances where supply is lower than demand. Utilities apply surcharges to companies with low power factor. Resolve reports on power factor providing your business the energy audit data it needs to retrofit costly equipment and wiring.

A voltage sag as defined by IEEE, is a short dip between 10%-90% RMS Root Mean Square voltage at 60-Hz. The duration of the voltage sag is one-half cycle and up to a minute. Although voltage sags can derive from the utility supply they are most often caused by in-building equipment. It can be caused by the addition of electric motors, changes to excessive loads or a short circuit. Voltage sags, or dips, are the most typical issues that affecting power quality in industrial plants. Variable speed drives, process controllers, PLCs and motor starters are all sensitive to voltage sags resulting in costly downtime when they drop out.

A voltage swell occurs when there is an increase in the RMS Root Mean Square Voltage of between 1.1pu and 1.8 pu from one-half cycle and up to a minute. Improperly shutting off large loads such as motors, welders or furnaces shutdown on the system can cause a change in load impedance causing swells and leading to equipment overheating and electronics malfunction. Sag and Swell events can be identified through Resolve Power Quality monitoring analysis allowing you to resolve the issue and prevent future down-time and equipment damage.

Frequency variations are changes in the nominal supply frequency. The rotational speed of the generators that produce electrical energy is the function of supply frequency. If a generator load and capacity becomes unbalanced a frequency variation occurs. Deviations in frequency can disrupt logic systems and interfere with the operating speed of equipment. Resolve Power Quality can monitor, identify and alert the instance of frequency variations.

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