ICE Data Centre — Protection & Arc Flash
A detailed loadflow, short circuit and protection study for a secure data centre
The challenge
Aurora was approached by ICE to carry out power system analysis and an overall protection study for a key London data centre handling financial trading between the London and New York stock exchanges. The site had been developed over several years and lacked an up-to-date protection coordination study and arc flash study.
What Aurora did
We carried out a full loadflow and short circuit study to validate the system design and confirm that all equipment was correctly rated for the required duty. This included both main and failover supplies, sustained operation from backup diesel generator sets and the performance of the rotary UPS under fault conditions. We then undertook a detailed protection coordination study for the entire network, covering the HV, LV and UPS systems, cable differential and transformer differential protection, and generator protection settings.