Global Contact is KEMA’s worldwide quarterly magazine that is distributed among 15.000 of KEMA’s clients and relations. Global Contact is a broad platform. It includes news from around KEMA as well as articles providing insight into today’s critical energy and utility trends and topics, and the divers projects KEMA and her clients are working on.

This issue features: 

• A breaker isn't a plug-and-play device: Large circuit breakers and power transformers are very special devices. They have to work properly at critical moments. They have to be able to cope with enormous stresses
• Timely compliance with guidelines: The European IPPC Directives prescribe that all power producers, waste incinerators, as well as the metal and process industries should implement the best available techniques
• Water-cooled high voltage cable: The use of a cooling water circulation system, which allows for a very high transmission capacity, makes this underground cable something very special. KEMA has supported TenneT with technical advice
• Growers to use flashing lights? Could LEDs be used in commercial greenhouses? Within a few years, growers may well be using batteries of LEDs, which require far less power than the high-pressure sodium lights currently used
• Navigating risks: A sound energy policy is a fundamental building block for a strong economy, a clean environment and beneficial social conditions. El Salvador’s recent efforts to establish a national energy policy provide a strong example for successfully tackling the challenges
• Extreme inspection: Concrete foundations or the outside of a boiler house can be inspected without too much difficulty. But what about the inside of a chimney stack or boiler? Or the pylons of a road bridge? KEMA normally inspects such inaccessible surfaces and structures by means of rope access
• Keeping power quality under control: Several years ago, Corus began to experience increasing problems with its power supply. Power electronic drives and converters were tripping, timers were running fast, power electronic converter filters and cranes were failing
• On-line performance assessment: More insight into your business’s performance. The opportunity to see how well you are doing in comparison with other firms in the same sector. This, and more is possible with the Value E-Xelerator.