Session 3 Round Table Industrial distribution networks

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Session 3 Round TableIndustrial
distribution networks
Chairman Theodor Connor
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Industrial distribution networks

• In many countries the industry is the motor of
  economic performance
• Electric power consumption of industry is about
  33 of the total consumption
• From the very beginning of practical use of
  electricity the supply of industrial complexes
  was driving the development
• Benefits at that time and as well as today
• Powerful and instantaneously available
• Safe handling
• Less noise and pollution
• Motor, heating, melting, illumination,

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Comparison of business cases
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Issues addressed

• Specific requirements for industrial networks of
  different kinds
• Relation between power supply structure and
  production process
• Interaction between industrial and public
  networks
• Operational approach
• Power quality and reliability of supply
• Efficiency of power supply

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Participants
Pierre Ligot Solvay Group Belgium Networks for
chemical and pharmaceutical industry René
Undasch OMV Refining Austria Power supply for
Schwechat refinery Lennart Mukka LKAB Sweden Iron
ore mining and processing Paul Walder Sprecher
Automation Austria Practical applications for
cement industry Christian Czauderna Bayer
Industry Services Germany Electricity supply for
large industrial complexes