Metals & Mining

The Metal & Mining industry relies on ETAP to improve the safety and reliability of operation. ETAP Real-Time solution brings significant energy savings while reducing unnecessary load shedding and thereby preserving critical loads directly associated with production.
  • Modeling & Visualization

    Modeling & Visualization

    A one-stop solution with intelligent interface views and core capabilities to create, configure, customize, and manage your electrical power system model.

  • Analysis & Optimizaton

    Analysis & Optimization

    A full spectrum suite of power systems analysis and optimizations products ranging from load flow to transient stability.

  • Electrical Safety & Protection

    Electrical Safety & Grounding

    Comprehensive and integrated solution to help evaluate, analyze, and assess the safety and grounding of your electrical system.

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    Protection & Coordination

    Fully integrated Protective Device Coordination software for steady-state and dynamic device coordination, protection, and testing.

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    Power Management System

    Model-driven power management solution for continuous monitoring, predictive simulation, optimization, and automation of electrical system.

  • Fast Load Shedding System

    Load Shedding System

    A smart load shedding system must have the same understanding of the electrical network as the engineers who designed and analyzed it.

Powering the Mine

Production interruptions in the mining industry are associated with substantial losses in revenue. Inadequate load shedding triggered by a disturbance in the onsite power generation often results in loss of critical loads which negatively affect the production process, having a substantial impact in revenue to the tune of millions of dollars per incident. It is essential to have a proactive solution that can shed loads in a fast, optimal, safe, and intelligent manner in order to minimize production losses. ETAP Intelligent Load Shedding (ILS) is one such solution. ETAP ILS is a state-of-the-art, load preservation solution designed for the mining industry.

This mining specific load preservation system has been proven to reduce unnecessary load shedding and thereby preserving critical loads directly associated with production. In addition, ILS will bring significant energy savings by diverting non-essential loads during hours of high energy costs and managing the optimal combination of utility and self-generation power.


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Protection Coordination at Panama Mina de Cobre

Protection Coordination at Panama Mina de Cobre

Design and commission of a green-site power system including protection coordination for the entire site and implementation of IEC61850 communications, inter-tripping, inter-locking and protection blocking schemes.

Ground Grid Design with ETAP in a Steel Plant in Mexico  - EPSOL

Ground Grid Design with ETAP in a Steel Plant in Mexico - EPSOL

A Ground Grid design project is presented in a steel plant in Mexico and the objective is to reduce the step and touch potentials in the area of ​​electric arc furnaces of 50 kA connected to transformers of 13.8/0.6 KV and that in the moment of melting, they create dangerous currents for the workers who operate these furnaces. The project is executed from the field measurements of the resistivity of the ground and the design of the ground grid with the ETAP finite element method (FEM) and the construction of the grid is executed up to the foot of the ovens, thereby reducing said potentials to safe values ​​for the workers, contributing to a safer work area.

How ETAP was utilized  to  expand  the Electrical System at the Tailings Dam Copper Mine in Peru

How ETAP was utilized to expand the Electrical System at the Tailings Dam Copper Mine in Peru

As part of their Tailings Dam Expansion project, a large copper mine in Peru required to have several studies performed in their electrical system. As loads were added and the topology of the system was changing, the client wanted to ensure that their electrical system would be able to handle the new loads and operate reliably and efficiently. Electro Integra S.A.C. was hired to perform Load Flow, Short Circuit, Relay Coordination, Motor Starting and Optimal Capacitor Placement studies. ETAP was used as the tool to perform all the studies because the client has been using ETAP for over 20 years. Since 2000, Electro Integra has partnered with ETAP to bring their software solutions to the Peruvian market. Continuous development and investment in ETAP Solutions has kept them as the de facto standard for power system analysis for all types and sizes of electrical industries.

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