Commissioning: for Mission Critical Supply

Most important in Data Centers when contruction is finished, it follows the functional performance testing for their electrical & mechanical system.

The overall goal of commissioning must be to ensure that a facility meets the design intent and the owner’s requirements.

For critical facilities, this goal is generally achieved by proving to the owner that the reliability, redundancy, and resiliency that he or she paid for, is indeed present and operational in the finished facility.

Because there are so many failure scenarios and variables, it is rarely possible or cost efficient to reasonably test each one, but the commissioning authority has an obligation to provide a level of testing that will allow the owner to feel confident that each system is working and capable of maintaining a proper planned operational state during common external events.

As expected, the owner will want to use the commissioning process to be certain that the installation, performance, and operation of new equipment is acceptable before it supports critical load, and he or she will strive to do this as cheaply and as quickly as possible.

MAIN ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS TO BE COMMISSIONED:

(1) Generator
(2) Automatic transfer switch (ATS)
(3) UPS
(4) Generator paralleling switchgear
(5) Main electrical switchgear
(6) Static transfer switch (STS)
(7) Electrical power monitoring system (EPMS)