LIOS Technology has completed a power cable monitoring project at a South American mining facility of Codelco in Chile. The Korean made 220 kV, 630 mm 2 XLPE high voltage cable system includes fibre optics in metal tube (FIMT) and supplies pumps, SAG mills (Semi-Autogenous Grinding) and other grinding equipment.

The Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) condition monitoring system is installed at the control room at 3500 m above sea level providing continuous thermal assessment of the highly loaded power circuit. Among LIOS Technology's more than 2000 permanent DTS installations this is certainly the one at highest altitude.

  Read more on how to ensure save and stable grid operation and how to activate hidden capacity reserves:

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