Standards Development

Scope

This systems reference deliverable applies to describe the certain aspects of standardization of LVDC in industrial applications.

These industrial applications apply to the secondary economic sector where the processing of resources obtains to the production, distribution and storage of physical goods, especially in a factory or special area.

This document covers the generation, distribution and consumption of LVDC power at these premises.

This document follows the IEC Systems Approach from the domain to the gap analysis and give guidance by describing reference implementation

Purpose

The electrical distribution in industrial applications has a high amount of motor drives and machinery with high power peaks. More and more production sites integrates PV systems and battery storage systems to reduces this peaks or/and increase the reliability. Going to an DC distribution will cover that challenges and will further increase the efficiency. This can be archived in LVDC due to the fact, that there are less conversion losses and a cost-effective bidirectional integration of motor drives and batteries is possible. LVDC is already used in many corners of a production hall, but all parts have none or different standardized interfaces and are therefore not compatible to a central bus system. This SRD will harmonise the system aspects of LVDC distribution systems in the application of industrial production. This SRD will enable factories to implement an open (vendor independent) industrial LVDC bus with high penetration of renewable sources, storage systems and bidirectional motor drives. It also defines necessary boundaries and interfaces for connected devices or subsystems. As a SRD it is intended to harmonize between the different product standards of all involved TCs