Pumps

The world's tallest building, at 508 meters, populated by thousands of people at any given time, has to pump water to each of its 101 floors. 101 RVS-DN Soft-starters soft-start and soft-stop these pump motors.

Solcon's RVS-DN operating in harsh environmental conditions of 50°C with high humidity and salty content, having the latest pump control features, yet, UL, cUL approved.

Sentosa, an island resort in Singapore, is renowned for beautiful landscaping including not a few fountains. Some of the elaborate fountains marking Sentosas' beauty are complex systems pumping large amounts of water through multiple pipe outlets.

At the Dominican Republic, the power utility expansion was inevitable. The consulting engineers situated in Texas were looking for a heavy duty, ready for operation in harsh conditions of high temperature of 50oC, humid and salty environment, having the latest pump control features.

The harsh environmental conditions and the high inrush current, directed the engineers at the Harmony Gold Mine towards a soft starting solution. When it came about to choose the correct soft-starter for a 2100 meters below ground level, the ultimate choice was Solcons' HRVS-DN.

The City of Monterrey is situated 2000 meters above sea level. Supplying water to the city requires many booster pumps operating randomly to keep the water pressure at a suitable level.

Unique custom design for soft starting 5 medium voltage motors with limited space constraints - installed in only 9.7 meters instead of the standard 13-15 meters normally required.

The Solcon Soft-starter with its multistart application was the ideal solution for this application. The HRVS-DN line-up is built in a Multi-Start arrangement, starting each of the 4 synchronous motors sequentially. One soft-starter for four motors saves precious space, engineering, construction, and installation costs.

This copper mine is situated 3000 meters above sea level in the Calama desert. Supplying water in general and to this altitude in particular requires powerful pumping capability, derating multipliers, and the advanced soft-starting ability of Solcon.

The Chinguetti oil field, off the west coast of Mauritania, will be developed by the converted tanker ship Berge Helene (owner: Bergessen Offshore). The gas compressors, seawater injection pumps, hot oil and emergency fire pumps will be soft started by Solcon's HRVS-DN Medium Voltage Soft-Starters.

Off the coast of Brazil the FPSO Fluminense is developing the Bijupira oil field. Reservoir pressure is maintained by the high-pressure injection of seawater using heavy duty MV motor driven pumps. Solcon was called upon to soft-start these seven 6.6KV motors.

Of the coast of the Nederland in the cold water of the North Sea "UNOCAL 76" is pumping crude oil via 9 MV pumps (6 equipped with HRVS-DN mini height soft-starter).

The Glitne oil field, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, is being developed by the Floating Production Storing and Offloading vessel designed by Golar Nor and built by NKK shipyards. (owner: Statoil). The water injection pump is soft started by the HRVS-DN.

Extruding crude oil from under the ocean floor requires the pumping of vast amounts of seawater into the cavity under the ocean floor in order to create pressure to force the crude out and up towards the ocean's surface.

The long time success of the Pertojarl I equipped with the Solcon soft-starter has spun off a new sister ship- the PGS Foinhaven. This FPSO is also being equipped with the HRVS-DN soft starter to drive the water injection pumps.

Aker Floating Production ASA was contracted to provision and operate the FPSO Aker Smart1 for the purpose of running an oil and gas field off the coast of India.

SBM commissioned the FPSO Kuito, named after the oil field it is to work some 50 miles of the coast of Angola. The choice of Solcon soft starters for motors allows engineers to design with smaller generating capacity.

In 2011 ESCO France and the System Integrator (SNEF Group) requested from Solcon to supply five

HRVS-DN Medium Voltage Soft Starters for starting, stopping and protection of the five pump motors

that service the dry dock in the Port of Brest.