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Studies & Safety6 min

Arc Flash Studies: What IEEE 1584-2018 Means for Your Plant

An arc flash study calculates the incident energy a worker could be exposed to at each piece of equipment, sets the arc flash boundary, and identifies ways to reduce the hazard.

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Advisory5 min

Owner's Engineer or Detailed Engineer: Which Appointment Do You Need?

Appoint a Detailed Engineer when you need someone to produce the design; appoint an Owner's Engineer when you need someone to check it on your behalf.

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Solar & Storage6 min

BESS Grid Integration Studies: What the Grid Operator Will Ask

A BESS grid integration study shows that a storage system can connect without breaching network limits and that it meets the grid code.

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Testing & Commissioning5 min

I-V Curve Tracing: Proving a Solar Plant Performs at Handover

I-V curve tracing measures the current–voltage characteristic of a PV string or module on site and compares it with the expected curve.

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Studies & Safety6 min

Earthing Design: Why Step and Touch Potential Decide Safety

A substation earthing grid is safe when the voltages a person could experience during an earth fault — step and touch potential — stay below tolerable limits.

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Studies & Safety5 min

N+1 or 2N: Designing Power Redundancy for Data Centres

N+1 adds one spare component to the number needed to carry the load; 2N provides two complete, independent power paths.

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Future-Ready5 min

Engineering for an AI- and Robot-Driven Future

Assets are increasingly monitored by software, inspected by drones and maintained by robots — and AI workloads are driving demand for data centre power, storage and grid capacity.

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Advisory5 min

Factory Acceptance Testing: What the Owner Should Witness

Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) proves that major equipment meets its specification before it leaves the factory.

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Studies & Safety5 min

Power Quality Audits: Reading Harmonics, Sags and Flicker

A power quality audit measures how clean and stable a facility's supply is — harmonics, voltage sags and swells, flicker, unbalance and power factor — over a representative period.

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Solar & Storage4 min

Robotic Solar Cleaning: Where It Fits in O&M

Robotic cleaning removes soiling from PV modules consistently and without the variability of manual cleaning.

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Mechanical & Structural5 min

Pressure Vessel Design: What Goes into the Design Basis

A pressure vessel design basis fixes the numbers every calculation depends on: design pressure and temperature, minimum design metal temperature, materials and corrosion allowance, external loads, and the governing code.

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Mechanical & Structural5 min

API 650 Storage Tanks: the Design Decisions That Matter

API 650 covers welded steel tanks for storage at near-atmospheric pressure.

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Mechanical & Structural4 min

Process Skid Design: Getting Process, Mechanical and Structure Right Together

A good process skid is designed as one system: equipment, piping, structure, instruments and electrics fitted into a frame that can be lifted, transported, installed and maintained.

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