ELECTRICAL CONTROL & INSTRUMENTATION (EC&I)

DRA Global has worked with a broad range of clients across the resources sector but more specifically in the Mining and Minerals space. The organisation provides a holistic solution to clients, which includes detailed studies, specific technical solutions as well as multi-disciplinary projects satisfying a need for power, control, measurement and communication within an industrial environment.

Solutions perform as required, and on demand, and are engineered to meet a range of standards. The specific requirements differ in terms of client, region or country and tailored solutions are provided through consultation with DRA Global’s electrical control & instrumentation (EC&I) teams.

Focus is placed on delivering a technically sound working solution that is safe, functional, cost effective and delivered on time. Safety is inherent to electrical system design with most power design principals centred around risk and mitigating potential impacts. Typical solutions involve all the engineering and management services necessary to understand a particular problem, engineer a workable solution and to implement a solution that meets client needs.

ELECTRICAL – HIGH VOLTAGE (HV& MV) 

  • Design Criteria, specifications, procedures, drawing registers
  • Single line diagrams (SLD)
  • Utility power interfaces, coordination & applications
  • Power plant trade-offs, renewable energy options
  • Power generation – Diesel, HFO, PV, Coal etc.
  • Emergency power requirements
  • Power reticulation & distribution (substations & overhead lines) 
  • Distribution transformers
  • ETAP Simulations
  • MV Motors, VSD’s, SER’s & related switchgear/equipment
  • Protection grading
  • Energy management systems
  • Power management systems
  • Power factor correction systems (PFC)

 

 

ELECTRICAL – LOW VOLTAGE (LV) /

  • Design criteria, specifications, procedures, drawing registers
  • Load & motor Lists
  • Emergency power requirements (including UPS’s and CVT’s)
  • Load distribution
  • Earthing 
  • Electrical database – EDES design software package
  • Motor schematics (DOL, VSD)
  • MCC & VSD Equipment 
  • Motor specifications and selections 
  • Cable schedule, racking & routing
  • Lighting & small power
  • Construction BOQ

 

 

 

INSTRUMENTATION /

  • Design Criteria, specifications, procedures, drawing registers
  • P&ID’s - piping & instrumentation diagrams (instrumentation input)
  • Instrumentation selection and application requirements
  • Instrumentation Index 
  • I/O List
  • Instrumentation datasheets & hardware specifications
  • Loop diagrams, location, hook-up designs & drawings
  • Instrumentation database - FDES (software design package)
  • I/O panels, junction Boxes, distribution boards etc.
  • Cables, racking and routing designs
  • Construction BOQ

 

 

 

CONTROL SYSTEMS

  • Design criteria, specifications, procedures, drawing registers
  • Control network design, specifications and drawings
  • Control functional specification
  • Hardware design and selection
  • Vendor interfacing
  • SCADA system design and full programming
  • PLC system design and full programming
  • FAT testing – office, vendors, suppliers
  • Remote engineering and support systems
  • Construction BOQ

 

 

 

HISTORIAN/MIS SYSTEMS

  • Equipment tag logging
  • Equipment trending
  • Equipment alarming
  • Event logging
  • Production reporting
  • Operations balancing reporting
  • Process, energy, water management reporting
  • Maintenance support
  • Remote engineering and monitoring systems

 

 

 

SPECIALISED ELECTRICAL SERVICES 

  • Reactive power compensation
  • Static VAR compensators (Arc furnaces and mills)
  • Harmonic filters (6,6 – 400kV)
  • Energy management
  • Static load flow and voltage regulation studies (winders, open cast mining, furnaces)
  • Protection co-ordination studies
  • Overvoltage and surge protection
  • Furnace power optimization studies

 

 

GENERAL SERVICES

  • Project management - EC&I Specific projects 
  • Project specific specifications
  • Energy efficient engineering and designs
  • Project specific procedures
  • Vendor packages standards and interface designs
  • Factory inspections, Factory acceptance testing (FAT)
  • Combined construction BOQ (EC&I)
  • Selection/management of the installation contractor
  • Construction assistance (engineer level)
  • Pre, cold & hot commissioning
  • Documentation & handover
  • Optimising and support
  • Electrical HT protection courses for engineers and foremen