Monitoring system interference and thunderstorms
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Umeå universitet - Institutionen för datavetenskap |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 484 000 |
| Project duration | September 2015 - February 2016 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Strategic innovation programme for process industrial IT and automation – PiiA |
Purpose and goal
The project´s purpose and goals has been to gather the existing expertise within organizations to identify what information is available to prevent thunder related disturbances, the measures taken to reduce them and the outcome. Furthermore, the project had the objective to investigate the need for a thunder monitoring system and what features it should have. Description of how the disturbance immunity can be improved and how the thunder monitoring system should be designed are documented in the feasibility study report why we judge that both purpose and objectives are met.
Results and expected effects
The proposals presented in the report have now to be realized to obtain expected cost reduction impact in the process industry by avoiding thunder related disturbances. The study can be used to implement proposals to increase the interference immunity as presented in the project report. The consortium plans to enter a PiiA-application to develop the thunder monitoring system proposed in the study.
Approach and implementation
All participating organizations in the pilot study has contributed with valuable knowledge. SMHI detects thunder activities, Waterfall is carrying the effects of lightning (voltage dip) and plant owner suffer the consequences. SMHI, Vattenfall and ABB are the system owners and has supplied signal lists of metrics of interest for the study. Responsible representatives of the plant owners have contributed with knowledge of how the plant is managed during thunder and strategies to create highest possible interference immunity to prevent disturbances in the main power.