The AHF in Hospital
Hospitals are places where reliable power distribution is needed to guarantee patient health and save lives. Continuity and reliability of power supply are extremely important. Automatic power restoration time of different healthcare venues is as follows: category 0 venues t≤15s; category 1 venues 0.5s≤t≤15s; and category 2 venues t≤0.5s.
The Background
The use of new medical equipment, such as X-ray machines, CT scanners, MRI scanners, and others is increasing in hospitals. Equipment loads contain a high volume of harmonic current, and can impact the hospital power distribution system thereby reducing power quality. Harmonic management is necessary to ensure the safety of hospital distribution systems.
UPSs are increasingly common as hospitals pursue a reliable power supply. As most UPSs use 6-pulse or 12-pulse rectifiers, a high volume of harmonic current can flow into the grid and affect grid stability.
The PQ Problem
Harmonics affect lighting stability and interfere with precision medical instruments such as CT scanners, MRI scanners and ECGs, reducing examination accuracy and ultimately affecting physician diagnoses of patients’ conditions. In addition, high volumes of harmonic current also reduce the stability.
The Performance
There are some harmonic problems in Building 3 of Shanghai Tongren Hospital. In order to avoid the impact of harmonics on the normal work of the hospital, a 200A Active Harmonic Filter is installed to control the harmonics.After AHF installation, the field harmonic problem has been well improved, and the current distortion rate is reduced from about 12% to about 2%.
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