Retrofit of Power Centers Within an Airport

Author

Guenther, D.S. ; Bergstrom, S.D.

Author_Institution

CH2M Hill, Seattle, WA

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

8-12 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

726

Lastpage

732

Abstract

The Sun never sets on modern major airports and in a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week business, extended outages, planned or unplanned, are extremely difficult to facilitate. Extended outages that shut down a major airport are the makings of front page newspaper articles. When the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) decided to upgrade their electrical infrastructure, extensive studies were undertaken to determine the most reliable and cost effective power system available. The focus of this paper is to review the decisions concerning maintenance and the construction retrofit of one element in an airport´s power distribution system, the power center. This paper benefits maintenance directors, designers and others wishing to construct, in a remodel environment, with minimal impact to ongoing operations

Keywords

airports; distribution networks; Seattle-Tacoma International Airport; construction retrofit; power centers; power distribution system; Airports; Automatic control; Costs; Low voltage; Maintenance; Power distribution; Power engineering and energy; Power system reliability; Substations; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 2006. 41st IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0364-2

Electronic_ISBN

0197-2618

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.2006.256607

Filename

4025293