Power Quality Expert | Elspec

Elspec are partnered with Power Quality Expert in the UK to support and supply their range of advanced state of the art power quality analyzers, power quality solutions and power monitoring software.  The partnership allow for both businesses to focus on developing technology and tailor made power quality solutions that pushes the power quality market to the next level.

Elspec power quality analyzer products are compliant to the DESNZ Energy Technology List portable energy monitoring equipment criteria.  The ETL product approval and qualification for provides independent verification that the Elspec power quality and energy products are in the top 25% of power and energy monitoring test instrumentation currently available on the market with Power Quality Expert being the largest stakeholder with the ETL for Power Quality and Energy analyzers.

The innovative products from Elspec can be found in almost any sector, covering from the industrial and commercial markets to the utility sector and renewable applications. Elspec’s installations can be found in leading wind projects due to OEM partnership with Siemens, Vestas and Nordex

Power Quality Analyzers

Elspec power quality analyzers take power quality monitoring to a new level. Equipped with Elspec revolutionary PQZIP compression patent algorithm, our power quality analyzer series enables you to measure, store and analyze waveform signals continually at sampling rate of up to 1,024 samples per cycle. This ensures data availability without the need to set any trigger or threshold, providing unlimited pre & post trigger. Our analyzers far surpassing the highest Industry standards, complying with IEC 61000-4-30 Class A.

Digital Fault Recorders

Elspec multi-functional digital fault recorder are equipped with the Elspec unique integrated PQZIP technology. They comply with IEC 61850 MMS, GOOSE messaging and sample value, and surpassing IEC 61000-4-30 Class A requirements, the G5DFR continuously records and stores all waveform signals at sampling rate of up to 1,024 samples per cycle thanks to its PQZIP compression algorithm, enabling data analysis at any time.

Power Quality Software

PQSCADA Sapphire is a multi-component, vendor free, PQ software. PQSCADA Sapphire integrates data from protection relays, fault recorders, power quality analyzers, smart meters and other data sources into a single data base.

PQSCADA Sapphire reads data from a variety of sources, data formats supported include:

  • COMTRADE: IEEE Std C37.111-1991 | IEEE C37.111-1999
  • PQDIF: Power Quality Data Interchange Format – IEEE Std 1159.3-2002
  • Elspec PQZIP – Continuous waveform recording
  • Elspec PQZ – Continuous waveform recording
  • IEC 61850 MMS
  • MODBUS TCP

Fault Ride Through

The Equalizer RT is a real-time high performance power quality solution designed to deliver substantial reactive power even during a Fault Ride Through (FRT) or Voltage Ride Though (VRT) event where a very deep voltage sag occurs.  The fault ride through solution has been modified in order to boost supplied kVAr capacity for short time during these voltage dips and has an ultra fast acquisition time and can fully compensate for the voltage sag within less than 10 milliseconds.  This modification makes a transient free connection of capacitors in a Voltage Control operation mode and is optimised to fulfil the PO12.3 Grid Code requirements.

Voltage Stabilization

Elspec’s power quality solutions compensate for full load reactive power demands in less than one network cycle. Our real-time compensation systems stabilize voltage, enhance PF, mitigate Harmonics and reduce voltage flickering & fluctuations in real-time. Thanks to their transient switching technology through precise zero-crossing thyristor control, Elspec’s solutions enable quick problem identification, power factor correction and faster decision making.