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Diesel generator sets for civilian buildings: how to choose a reliable backup power supply?

July 07, 2022
Modern civil buildings with complex functions and dense flow of people have strict requirements for power supply reliability due to the need of fire prevention and safety. The selection of an appropriate backup power supply to meet the power supply requirements of fire-fighting loads and important loads in emergencies is an issue that cannot be ignored in the electrical design of civil buildings. Because of the large capacity of diesel generator sets, long continuous power supply time, independent operation and high reliability, diesel generator sets are generally used as emergency power.
Civilian diesel generator set
 
Modern civil buildings with complex functions and dense flow of people have strict requirements for power supply reliability due to the need of fire prevention and safety. The selection of appropriate backup power to meet the emergency fire load and important load power supply requirements, is a civil building electrical design can not be ignored. Because of the large capacity of diesel generator sets, long continuous power supply time, independent operation and high reliability, diesel generator sets are generally used as emergency power supply.
 
Setting principles
 
There are a wide range of brands of generator sets on the market, and attention should be paid to the performance and quality of the selected set must meet the requirements of the relevant standards when purchasing. At present, domestic and foreign generator sets for various applications have more detailed standards and regulations, the manufacturer should be able to show the identification or certification of domestic or international certification bodies.
 
China's standards for various internal combustion generator sets are
 
GB/T 2820-2009 "Reciprocating internal combustion engine-driven alternating current generator sets" (equivalent to the international standard IS08528 series, with 12 parts), JB/T 10303---2001 "Technical conditions for industrial frequency diesel generator sets", GB/T 2819--1995 "General technical conditions for mobile power stations" and GB/T 12786-2006 General Technical Conditions for Automated Diesel Generator Sets", etc.
 
For each specific industry the standards are
 
GJB 4491--2002 (General Specification for Diesel Generator Sets for Fixed Communication Power Stations) for the military sector, YD/T 502--2007 "Diesel Generator Sets for Communication" for the post and telecommunications sector, GB/T 13032-2010 "Diesel Generator Sets for Ships" for the marine sector, and JGJ/T16 "Electrical Design Code for Civil Buildings -92 3.1 stipulates: the load level of fire pumps, fire elevators, smoke control facilities, automatic fire alarms, automatic fire extinguishing devices, fire emergency lighting, electric fire doors and windows, shutters, valves and other fire-fighting electricity in civil buildings shall comply with the current national "Fire Code for High-rise Civil Building Design" and "Building Design Fire Code", etc.
 
In addition, in today's increasingly important environmental protection, the unit itself should have or after other special treatment, its exhaust emissions and noise should conform to the provisions of GB 16297-1996 "Comprehensive Emission Standards for Air Pollutants" and GB 12348 - 2008 "Emission Standards for Noise from Factory Boundaries of Factory Enterprises". For the products that meet the relevant standards, they can obtain the inspection certificates issued by the relevant state departments.
 
Capacity selection
 
The selection of the capacity of the self-provided generator set, there is no unified calculation formula in the country, so the methods used by the designers in practice are different: some are simply determined by 10%-20% of the capacity of the power transformer; some are added by the capacity of the fire-fighting equipment; some are selected according to the will of the investors, resulting in the inaccuracy of the selection of the capacity of the self-provided generator set. If the capacity is too large, the investment will be wasted, and if the capacity is too small, it will not meet the requirements in case of accident.
 
The choice of the unit
 
1, the choice of the number of units: when the motor starting capacity to choose the capacity of the generator set, the number of generators can not be more, because the number of units increased, the single capacity is small, may not meet the motor starting requirements. Generally when the capacity does not exceed 800kw, the choice of a single machine is good, when the capacity of 800kw or more, it is appropriate to choose two, and two units of various physical parameters should be the same, to facilitate parallel operation of the unit.
 
2, the choice of other features: civil building backup emergency generator set should be selected for high-speed diesel generator sets and brushless automatic excitation device. The selected unit should be equipped with fast automatic starting and power automatic switching device, and should have the function of three consecutive self-starting. It is not suitable to use compressed air to start, and 24V battery set is generally used as the starting power source.
 
Because the actual situation of each civil construction project is very different, so the top Bo power reminds you that when you choose the emergency diesel generator set, in addition to meeting the requirements of the specifications, should be set according to the actual situation, in order to achieve satisfactory results.