Projects

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London, UK

King’s Cross Station

KIPO provided the lead Amtech calculations and were the guardian electrical engineer for the St. Pancras Station Channel tunnel Rail Link project. Every electrical system for the station was validated on site to an Amtech Model.

Our Services and Solutions:

  • Discrimination Study for St. Pancras Station

  • The review of the UPS systems acted as both a life safety system and Station Critical power dependable system

  • The design of 4 modular UPS IGBT systems, to an N+1 parallel redundant system load configuration for different railway network operators

  • Reverse kVAr’s (leading power factor) potential problem was identified by a power quality survey, with solution identified by the use of IGBT Rectifier/ Inverter solution and detuned reactor banks, tuned to suit the respective harmonic generated on the installation

PROJECT DETAILS

Client: Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Eurostar

Sector: Transport