Substation Engineering
Substation engineering services encompass a range of specialized engineering activities and expertise related to the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of electrical substations. Electrical substations play a critical role in the transmission and distribution of electrical power, converting high-voltage electricity from power generation sources into lower voltages suitable for distribution to homes, businesses, and industries. These services are essential for ensuring the reliable and efficient operation of the electrical grid. Our services in substation engineering include:
- Feasibility Studies
- Site Selection and Evaluation
- Design and Engineering: Developing detailed engineering plans and designs for substations, including electrical, civil, structural, seismic, and protection and control systems.
- Equipment Specification: Selecting and specifying the various components of substations, including transformers, circuit breakers, switchgear, and control systems.
- Seismic Qualification: Ensuring that substation equipment meet IEEE 693 requirements based on the seismic hazard map.
- Project Management: Overseeing all aspects of substation development, including scheduling, budgeting, procurement, and construction management.
- Grid Integration/Studies: Ensuring that substations seamlessly integrate into the existing electrical grid, including managing voltage levels, fault protection, and grid stability.
- Substation Commissioning: Testing and commissioning substations to ensure that they operate safely and efficiently before being put into service.
- Safety Compliance: Ensuring that substations meet safety standards to protect personnel working in or around the facility.
We are an emerging innovative engineering firm specializing in the design, construction, and maintenance of primary substations. With a commitment to excellence and a wealth of expertise, we have been a trusted partner in the energy sector since its establishment.
Services Offered:
- Primary Substation Design: We provide tailored solutions that prioritize efficiency, safety, and adherence to industry standards. Our designs are comprehensive, addressing various technical aspects while meeting client-specific requirements.
- Equipment Procurement and Integration: The company assists clients in sourcing and procuring high-quality equipment necessary for primary substation projects. We ensure the seamless integration of various components into the substation design, focusing on reliability and optimal system performance.
- Substation Construction and Installation: Our skilled construction teams manage the installation and commissioning of primary substations, ensuring strict adherence to safety regulations and industry best practices. Projects are executed with precision and efficiency, meeting deadlines and quality benchmarks.
- Maintenance and Upgrades: We provide comprehensive maintenance services for primary substations, including routine inspections, preventive maintenance, and strategic system upgrades. Our expertise allows for the identification and resolution of potential issues, enhancing the overall reliability and efficiency of the substation.
- Testing and Commissioning: Rigorous testing procedures are conducted to verify the performance and functionality of primary substations before commissioning. We ensure that all systems meet industry standards and client specifications before final deployment.
- Consultation and Advisory Services: The company offers expert consultation and advisory services, providing technical guidance, feasibility studies, and support for clients in making informed decisions regarding primary substation projects.
- Design, Retrofit and Modernization
- Relay & RTU Programming
- Testing and Commissioning
- Protective Relay Settings Design and Calculations for Transmission and Generation Protection Systems
- Relay Testing and Commissioning Support
- Ensure Compliance with the NERC Reliability Standards Applicable to Protection and Control of Bulk Electric System
- Generator Real and Reactive Power Capability Co-ordination Studies and Testing.
For over two decades, BIM has enabled built environment industry professionals to share information in a single, shared project-based set of objects and systems. It helps clients to understand design and engineering choices visually. It allows the creative team to test options on the layout of critical services virtually. And it outputs vital documentation and enables greater collaboration.
At Equagen, we’ve been pushing BIM’s capabilities, finding ways to amplify these effects and realize its potential and value on all our projects and developing automatic creation of content from data that enables us to respond directly to client needs.
- BIM Services: BIM modeling, BIM coordination, and clash detection, as well as BIM consulting and training.
- BIM Execution Planning
- BIM Implementation: BIM-based design, construction documentation, scheduling, and cost estimating.
- BIM Coordination: BIM to coordinate building systems and components across all disciplines, including architecture, engineering, and construction.
- BIM for Facility Management: asset management, space management, and maintenance management.
- BIM for Sustainability: BIM to optimize building performance, reduce energy consumption, and achieve sustainability goals.
- BIM for Construction Management: 4D scheduling, construction sequencing, and resource allocation.
- BIM for Prefabrication and Modular Construction: off-site manufacturing and assembly.
Substation seismic qualification involves ensuring that substations, critical components, and infrastructure can withstand seismic events, thereby maintaining operational integrity and safety during earthquakes. EQUAGEN is the leading consulting firm for the seismic qualification of transmission and distribution equipment by analysis. We have seismically qualified equipment at GIS, AIS, Synchronous Condenser, FSC, STATCOM, and SVC substations per the IEEE 693.
We use following techniques for seismic qualification of substation equipment structures:
- Static Coefficient Analysis
- Dynamic Response Spectrum Analysis
- Time History Analysis
- Static Pull Testing / Shake Table Testing
- Provide Peer Review Services of Seismic Qualifications Reports
Our structural engineers bring proven expertise to handle engineering design and services. Sound economical structural design comes from our understanding of the behaviors of concrete, steel, wood and masonry. Technical experts at Equagen have the knowledge to updated structures with new technologies and seamless tools to do effective design. Our engineers work with state-of-the-art software including STAAD, RISA 3D, RISA Foundation, SAP 2000, GT STRUDL, PLS-CADD, MFAD and LPILE to carry projects from conceptual planning, through construction, to startup and testing.
Our Structural Engineering Experience Includes:
- Structural Design and Analysis
- Structural Inspection and Evaluation
- Structural Rehabilitation and Retrofit
- Seismic and Wind Engineering
- Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Construction Support Services
- Code Compliance
Our civil and structural engineering services include:
- Project Specifications
- Construction Specifications and Standards
- Construction Estimating and Support
- Structural Design Residential Buildings
- Structural Design Commercial Buildings
- Structural Design Industrial Buildings
- Structural Steel Design
- Structural Design and Analysis of Power blocks
- Structural design of Commercial and Industrial Facilities
- Structural Design and Analysis of Transmission Line Towers
- Foundation Design & Analysis, and Retrofit
- Structural Design and Analysis of Substation Structures
- Structural Observation
- Advanced Seismic Analysis/Qualification IEEE-693
Our services in power systems studies include:
- Load Flow, Short Circuit, Coordination and Arc Flash Studies
- Conductor Thermal / Ampacity Analysis (Underground, In Tray, Above Ground)
- Motor Starting and Transient Analysis
- Medium Voltage Distribution
- MCC & VFD Power Distribution
- ARC Flash Studies
- Generator Real and Reactive Power Capability Co-ordination Studies and Testing
- Integration of renewable energy
- Impact studies of DER
- Dynamic Network Modeling including:
- Generator Controllers Loads
- Synchronous AVR
- Asynchronous (renewables) Speed Governor
- ERCOT Power System Modeling
- Modeling for NERC Compliance
- Model Energy Storage Projects
- SCADA System Design and Development
- SCADA System Integration
- HMI (Human-Machine Interface) Design
- PLC and RTU Programming
- Alarm Management and Notification Systems
- Historical Data Logging and Analysis
- Security and Cybersecurity Solutions
- SCADA System Upgrades and Modernization
- Training and Support
- SCADA System Optimization