Acontainer is ready for shipping in the Port of Hamburg. It is about to embark on a long journey to deliver its contents — Reinhausen Power Quality (PQ) equipment — to a copper mine in Peru. It will take around 30 days on a special ship before the container reaches the Peruvian capital of Lima. But the journey does not end there.
Onboard a heavy-duty transport vehicle, the container will cover another 150 kilometers on a mountain road from Lima to a construction site situated at an altitude of 4,800 meters in the Andes. Peru is one of the largest producers of copper in the world. This raw material is in great demand in numerous industrial branches because it boasts outstanding electrical and thermal conductivity properties as well as good malleability.
To meet the growing demand for the metal, the mine operator has expanded its production capacities and invested in two new mill drives which usually require large amounts of power and can severely disrupt both power quality and grid stability. This is not the case with PQ’s dynamic compensation systems which regulate the reactive power, reduce harmonics, maintain a stable grid, and ensure reliable production.