Easily Regulated

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With the ris­ing num­ber of dis­persed sources of ener­gy, the risk of the volt­age leav­ing the tol­erance band is increas­ing. At the same time, the chal­lenges fac­ing pow­er grid operators—such as tight bud­gets and under­staffed plants—are more diverse than ever. All dif­fi­cult circum­stances aside—one thing is cer­tain: The trans­form­ers must always pro­vide a con­stant volt­age, even with vary­ing loads and increas­ing demands in the grid.

This is where volt­age reg­u­la­tors step in to con­trol how and the pre­cise time at which the on-load tap-chang­er has to adjust the wind­ing ratio. With the TAPCON® series, Rein­hausen has offered a device for mea­sur­ing, con­trol­ling, reg­u­lat­ing, and mon­i­tor­ing the line volt­age for 50 years. Appli­ca­tions range from very sim­ple to very complex—such as reg­u­lat­ing three-wind­ing trans­form­ers, trans­former banks, phase shifters, or shunt reac­tors.

50years
of volt­age reg­u­la­tion expe­ri­ence is incor­po­rat­ed in the new TAPCON® 230.

The new TAPCON® 230 volt­age reg­u­la­tor gen­er­a­tion is fit for the future: MR experts have improved both hard­ware and soft­ware func­tions and cre­at­ed a new design. As Prod­uct Man­ag­er Tobias Gru­ber empha­sizes: “Our devel­op­ment incor­po­rates not only decades of exper­tise, but also—above all oth­er factors—our cus­tomers’ feed­back.” The result is a device that is much eas­i­er to han­dle in all oper­a­tional phas­es rang­ing from plan­ning, instal­la­tion, and com­mis­sion­ing to oper­a­tion. “The cur­rent oper­at­ing state and mea­sured val­ues are indi­cat­ed clear­ly on the dis­play and the device is very easy and intu­itive to oper­ate and con­fig­ure. This elim­i­nates the need to train staff,” explains Tobias Gru­ber.

THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS
from all over the world are already loy­al fans of our TAPCON® tech­nol­o­gy

The new reg­u­la­tion algo­rithms can be added as stan­dard and are spe­cial­ly adapt­ed to the dynam­ics aris­ing from the process of inte­grat­ing renew­able sources of ener­gy. Oper­a­tors can access the device at any time via their web brows­er with­out requir­ing any addi­tion­al soft­ware. Updates and upgrades can be down­loaded via the MR cus­tomer por­tal. This means that the TAPCON® 230 can eas­i­ly be adapt­ed to new grid require­ments.

> 110,000
TAPCON® series devices have already been sold.

Depend­ing on the com­mu­ni­ca­tion vari­ant select­ed, all avail­able com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols are now includ­ed. In oth­er words, it is pos­si­ble to con­nect to the con­trol room at any time. “Dur­ing the design phase, we took into account all applic­a­ble IT secu­ri­ty reg­u­la­tions in accor­dance with the Ger­man Asso­ci­a­tion of Ener­gy and Water Indus­tries (BDEW) white paper and had them audit­ed by exter­nal audi­tors. The sys­tem is there­fore pro­tect­ed to the max­i­mum pos­si­ble extent against attacks.”

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YOUR CONTACT

Want to know more about volt­age reg­u­la­tors? Tobias Gru­ber is here to help: t.gruber@reinhausen.com