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RE: east coast powergrid / SCADA [OT?]
From: "Bernie, CTA" <cta () hcsin net>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:16:47 -0400
I did hear that there was a company that just coincidentally received a patent on a unique superconductor based arrester valve the day before the blackout. This valve is designed to suck down excess power surges and they could cost millions of dollars. <snip> Intermagnetics to develop surge protection system for utilities Marco Leavitt - The Business Review Using $6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, Intermagnetics General Corp. and a new European partner will develop a system to protect power grids from surges in current Philip Pellegrino, president of Intermagnetics subsidiary SuperPower Inc., said that negotiations were underway with a utility to install a prototype at a substation. He declined to say if the prototype would be installed locally, or name the utility. "It is a major, major utility in the United States," he said. To be known as a Matrix Fault Current Limiter, the system will utilize proprietary technology developed by SuperPower. SuperPower's technology is unique in that it uses magnetic fields to ensure that the load is evenly distributed across the rods, preventing them from overloading, Pellegrino said. Other researchers have been unable to ensure that the transition from superconductivity to resistance, which takes place in a fraction of a second, was done uniformly enough across the system to prevent burnout, he said. The Department of Energy's Argonne, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge national laboratories will also participate in the project. In a separate project, the Department of Energy is providing half of the funding for a $26 million project to install a 350- meter superconducting cable along the Hudson River and under Interstate-90, connecting two Niagara Mohawk substations <snip> hmmm? On 16 Aug 2003 at 17:20, Richard M. Smith wrote:
Do we know the names of companies that make the equipment designed to safegaurd the power grid? Better yet, what are the product names? This Web page is pretty cool: http://powerworld.tech.com/Java/Eastern/ Richard
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