Faults simulated before they happen
Utility Major, UAE · Power quality and instrumentation laboratory · 2025
Energy & Utilities
- 5
- OEM platforms integrated into one laboratory
- ICV
- In-Country Value contribution
- Sector
- Energy & Utilities
- Client
- Utility Major, UAE · Power quality and instrumentation laboratory · 2025
- Focus
- OPAL-RTPower qualityProtection testing
The challenge
Relays and protection schemes were being commissioned without a way to test them against simulated faults under real-time conditions before they went live on the network.
What DSAT delivered
A power quality and instrumentation laboratory built around an OPAL-RT real-time simulator, Chroma power supply and solar array simulator, Taraz dual-phase inverter, Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscope with laboratory-development support. dSPACE MicroLabBox was used to bridge the equipment with the lab software successfully overcoming inter-operability challenges.
The result
Relays tested, faults simulated and electrical parameters measured on an integrated platform, before implementation under real-time operating conditions to enable the Utility major to get the unified view of the ecosystem in their lab system.
Outcome
Local power quality and protection-system testing, available in-country rather than sent abroad.
