Bus Tie Breaker: A Key Component in Electrical Power
At Lerus Training, we provide specialized courses covering the operation and maintenance of electrical systems, including bus tie breakers, in Dynamic Positioning environments.
A Bus Tie Breaker is an essential device used in electrical systems to connect or isolate individual sections of a switchboard. In maritime and offshore operations, particularly in vessels equipped with Dynamic Positioning (DP) systems, bus tie breakers play a critical role in ensuring power distribution reliability and flexibility.
This set-up focuses on the use of open bus-tie breakers to separate redundancy groups of gensets and thrusters in a power system configuration. These circuit breakers isolate faulty parts from healthy sections in the power system during faults, such as a short circuit or overload.
A DEIF power management system can include as many Bus tie breaker controllers as necessary. Part of the versatile PPM 300 range The PPM 300 Bus tie breaker controller is part of the DEIF PPM 300 range of versatile controllers with built-in multi-master power management features.
Closed bus-ties that enable electrical power to be transferred between power systems belonging to different DP redundancy groups have previously been perceived to have a higher safety risk due to the potential for failure propagation across a common power system.
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