Beneath our feet, in most major cities, a myriad of cables and power equipment support our everyday lives. This kind of power delivery system provides the highest possible level of reliability but also poses a challenge in regards to monitoring.
Real-time online temperature monitoring for underground distribution power cables have become a priority with power systems switching to smart-grids. However, this kind of monitoring has previously been costly and associated with faults.
Temperature is a parameter which limits the transmission capacity of cables and especially underground networks are susceptible to influences by thermal heat resistivity, adjacent cables, and other sources dispatching heat making it even more important to measure the temperature in order to detect hot-spots.
With years of knowledge and extensive experience from well-known projects, solutions from Luna will provide cost-effective temperature monitoring to keep any underground network running safely at all times.
LIOS EN.SURE: A robust and accurate solution for underground network temperature monitoring
With enhanced visualization software and flexible and direct connection to management systems a LIOS EN.SURE solution offers a quick and easy overview of the thermal status of your circuits. LIOS EN.SURE holds up to 16 channels which enables one unit to cover even complex infrastructures, while still maintaining high accuracy and flexibility through defining zones, alarm levels, and types.
LIOS EN.SURE utilized Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) which is very robust and reliable – even in dirty or dusty conditions. The system sensing cable has no electrical components and with a long life expectancy the optical fibers can stay underground for many years without requiring maintenance.
The embedded Conductor Temperature and Real Time Temperature Rating engine calculates the current-currying capacity under given conditions of the underground cable which will allow operators a transient simulation to estimate the current that safely can be transferred from another circuit. The LIOS EN.SURE RRTR engine can furthermore be used for emergency ratings from 10 minutes and up to 2000 hours.
