{"id":2544,"date":"2019-05-03T07:52:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/35.94.173.37\/blog\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2024-11-05T07:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T07:54:21","slug":"national-instruments-pxi-for-the-energy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/national-instruments-pxi-for-the-energy-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"National Instruments PXI for the Energy Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Energy generation is a complex, high profile, and fast-moving business. A power outage in a modern, advanced country, where businesses and people rely on it every day is not going to go unnoticed! Affected companies can lose millions for even a short power cut and with a guarantee of supply contracts now more common, it will cost the supply company more than their reputation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the UK, the power suppliers and the supply system are separated. Individual power companies generate electricity to sell to their clients while the\u00a0National Grid<\/strong>\u00a0is a separate company tasked with providing and maintaining the transmission systems. To ensure an adequate and reliable supply of electricity across the network, the company used\u00a0National Instruments DAQ equipment<\/strong>\u00a0to build test and measuring systems across the network.<\/p>\n

Monitoring equipment can easily be built around a\u00a0PXI chassis<\/strong>\u00a0that is both small in size and has great reliability. Many of the\u00a0National Instruments PXI chassis<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0have high MTBR and low MTTR, particularly the units with hot-swappable cooling fans and power supplies.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0National Grid<\/strong>\u00a0must ensure that the power quality on its supply network remains constant despite the growing demands, such as electric vehicles and during peak demand periods. This requires constant accurate monitoring, particularly at the sub-station level where final distribution voltages are set. Typical consumer voltages across the world are\u00a0110-120 VAC<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0220-2240 VAC<\/strong>. The\u00a0National Instruments PXIe-4080 Digital Multimeter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0can measure a voltage of \u00b1300 V at a sample rate of 1.8 MS\/s, giving great accuracy and responsiveness.<\/p>\n

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Collecting data is just the start of course, but by using the\u00a0National Instruments PXIe Controller<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0modules, automatic monitoring and reporting can be programmed into the system. The\u00a0PXIe-8130 Controller<\/strong>\u00a0is supplied with a double-core AMD Turion 64\u00d72 processor, up to 4 GB of RAM, and a data transmission speed up to 4 GB\/s, giving an extremely responsive system.<\/p>\n

By using the\u00a0LabVIEW application<\/strong>\u00a0with the add-on Electrical Power Toolkit, the quality of the power supply can be set to a range of international standards. Any anomalies can be recorded on a\u00a0PXI Data Storage unit<\/strong><\/a>, such as the\u00a0NI PXIe-8267<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with up to 4 TB storage capacity. User-defined algorithms programmed using LabVIEW can assess the data and provide a valuable early warning of any potential problems before they occur, allowing engineers to be proactive and prevent power supply loss.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0National Instruments modular PXI system<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is perfect for designing test solutions for the energy sector. Within the PXI platform, you will find modules that provide just about every type and level of test and measurement you require. At\u00a0Apex Waves<\/strong>, we can supply, calibrate, and repair many of these products, specializing in obsolete and end-of-life parts.<\/p>\n

Apex Waves<\/a>\u00a0is your leading supplier for legacy test equipment. Whether you\u2019re looking for an obsolete part,\u00a0selling your surplus<\/a>, or interested in resources such as blogs and\u00a0how-to guides<\/a>, we\u2019ve got you covered! Browse our\u00a0PXI Products<\/a>\u00a0page or\u00a0contact<\/a>\u00a0us to receive a quote.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Energy generation is a complex, high profile, and fast-moving business. A power outage in a modern, advanced country, where businesses and people rely on it every day is not going to go unnoticed! Affected companies can lose millions for even a short power cut and with a guarantee of supply contracts now more common, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[231,393,503,630,643,645],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-instruments","tag-energy-industry","tag-national-instruments","tag-obsolete-pxi","tag-pxie-4080","tag-pxie-8130","tag-pxie-8267"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apexwaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}