UPS system testing & reliability analysis
Your diesel generator and UPS systems are there to give you peace of mind that they will work when you need them. To ensure that your systems are fully capable of supporting your critical load, Chloride offers a wide range of system tests, from building load tests through to fully integrated system tests with reactive load banks up to 10 MVA.
Chloride has its own fleet of load banks which can be used during commissioning and maintenance to prove the integrity of all aspects of your critical power installation, including batteries, air flow cooling, fuel delivery and safety devices.
Before the system is handed over it will go through extensive Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) in accordance with the agreed customer witness testing programme to ensure total confidence in your new system.
Once the system is in place, Chloride also offers a number of diagnostic services including:
- Battery life cycle trending – a simple test to check cell condition and detect how well the battery has aged
- Load test – using a portable load bank to simulate conditions for the power supply equipment, ensures that the installation can support the real load when required
- Generator load testing – impact, duration and overload tests
- Thermal imaging – using an infrared camera to identify hotspots and potential fault points in the equipment
- Integrated system test – a controlled test or series of tests with the mains power disconnected from the system to test the integrity of the backup protection
- Black building test – a simulation of a total power failure leading to operational shutdown to test business continuity capabilities
- Fuel and oil sampling – independent laboratory analysis for predictive maintenance of oil and fuel systems
- Power condition monitoring – using waveform analysis equipment