Chloride Power Protection has won a contract to supply over 600 UPS units for the new terminal at Dubai International Airport.
The airport is one of the world’s fastest growing, with annual passenger throughput of over 22 million people. To support this growth Dubai’s Department of Civil Aviation has invested £2 billion in a major improvement project and started construction of a third terminal & concourse.
Chloride will supply a distributed UPS solution including a mix of power ratings – 70-Net, 80-Net and 90-Net UPS systems – in what is thought to be be the largest concentration of three-phase UPS in the Middle East. The majority of the UPS units are connected in a redundant parallel configuration. The distributed nature of the UPS plan, and the range of other critical infrastructure, requires an extensive integrated monitoring system to provide the necessary UPS system detail to the site power systems supervisors. The UPS units will report to a central monitoring system (CMS) which in turn will send selected information from each system to a building information system(BIS). This will then send emergency information to the building management system (BMS) for the operators to determine what action is to be taken.
Information from the monitoring system is retrieved by the BIS via BACnet IP protocol. The BIS then sends selective information to the airport BMS and flight control system that monitor baggage handling systems/check-in and other operational activities. This is to ensure if any of these systems are affected by a power failure they will take action to offer alternative technical solutions to overcome the problem. For example, it may move a check-in function to another block of check-in desks and subsequently change the affected baggage handling system.
Middle East concentration of UPS
