Q.
INTERVIEW
What are the products and services
offered by the company catering to power
sector ?
KVTEK is a company involved in providing
electrical test lab solutions to the OEMs like
manufacturers of Power, Distribution and
Instrument Transformers, Cable manufacturers,
Switchgear manufacturers, Third party test
labs catering to power sector. Main products
manufactured by us are as below:
• Impulse Generators (100 kV / stage and
200 kV/stage)
• Impulse Dividers
Anil Uppal
• Impulse Chopping Gaps
• Impulse Analysers (2 Channel and 4 Channel)
Managing Director • Impulse Calibrators
KVTEK Power Systems Pvt. Ltd. • Recurrent Impulse Generators
• Variable Inductance & Frequency Series
Resonant Test Sets
• Variable Frequency Series Resonant Test Sets
• Variable Inductance Series Resonant Test Sets
• HV AC Dielectric Test Sets
• Partial Discharge Detection Systems (Single
channel and Multi-channel)
• RF Shielded Rooms
• Capacitance and Tangent Delta Test Sets
• Automatic Instrument Transformer Test Sets.
• Static Frequency Converters (Air Cooled and
Water Cooled)
KVTEK • Transformer Loss Measuring Systems
• Capacitor Banks
involved • AC/DC Kilovoltmeters
in providing • AC Hipot Testers
• DC Hipot Testers
electrical test lab • AC/DC Hipot Testers
• Moisture Absorption System
solutions to the OEMs • Voltage Seasoning Equipment for VI bottles
We now have the inhouse NABL accredited lab to
like manufacturers of Power, calibrate all the above equipment manufactured
by us thus reducing dependence on external labs.
Distr i buti on an d In str ume n t Additionally, we also undertake:
Transformers, Cable manufacturers, • Lab designing work and undertaking
turnkey responsibility of setting up the
Switchgear manufacturers and third test lab.
• Providing HV Test Equipment on rental
party test labs catering to power sector.
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for on-site HV Testing of GIS Substations.
• Modernizing, up-gradation, renovation
and refurbishment of old test labs with
any make test equipment.
Q. What opportunity do you forsee by the
upcoming of the government at it second
term ?
Power sector historically has thrived mainly
thermal power generation but with restrictions
on thermal power put by the government few
years back, power sector has not been doing very
well. Instead of thermal power focus has been
on renewable energy sources but even the solar
power and wind power sector has lot of challenges
on the ground. If government can focus and
overcome these challenges/hurdles then the
power sector is likely to grow significantly and
also the dynamics of the business will change.
This will open lot of new opportunities even for
test equipment suppliers like us.
Q. Do you have any new product launched
in recent?
Static Frequency Converter (SFC) is the latest
product that we have launched in the recent past.
This is a revolutionary product that will alter
the way Power and Distribution Transformers
were tested till date. Conventionally transformer
manufacturers were using two MG Sets; one for
conducting 50 / 60 Hz tests and second one
for conducting high freq. tests at 100/150/200
Hz and these additionally required voltage
regulators and lot of switchgear to make things
operational. All this gets replaced with single
Static Frequency Converter which besides saving
lot of space, it significantly increases the testing
throughput as the time required for changing
connection from one power source to the another
for different tests is saved because SFC provides
the variable output voltage and variable output
frequency from 50-200 Hz thus eliminates the
need of changing the power source.
Q. Please elaborate about your national
and international presence?
In India we are the only manufacturer for these
test equipment and have supplied test equipment
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to all major players within the country like:
BHEL, Siemens, Toshiba, T&R, Atlanta, Apar,
Schneider, Mehru, Heptacare, GE, CPRI, ERDA.
Skipper etc. Challenge is in supplying to the
smaller price sensitive companies which prefer
buying it from Chinese manufacturers due to the
cheap pricing offered by them but that comes
with lot of quality and service issues as well.
Internationally, we have so far supplied to 14
countries which include USA, UK, Germany,
Italy, Bulgaria, China, Vietnam, Philippines,
Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Australia, Peru, South
Africa, UAE and Oman.
Q. What are the effects of digitilization
is on the power industry?
Digitalization in power sector will allow
online monitoring of switchyards which
simplifies the monitoring process especially
the switchyards in remote locations. Smarter
grids due to digitalization will rationalize the
load distribution thus making all assets of
transmission and distribution industry more
reliable which should eventually lead to lesser
power outages.
Q. What is the outlook for the sector ?
With the emergence of stable government things
have already started looking better and industry
once again is looking to make investments in this
sector which was practically in a stand still mode
in the recent past. If Government can effectively
overcome all the ground hurdles especially the
ones related to land acquiring in renewable
energies, then the future of the power sector
will definitely be brighter.
Q. What are your nearly future plans?
With the development of Static Frequency
Converter, which was a very big challenge
for us, we are thinking in terms of using this
knowledge to develop traction converters which
are widely used in Railways and have much
bigger market. As Railways is likely to grow
dramatically with emergence of bullet trains
and metro trains practically in every city, this
requirement is likely to grow significantly. We
will therefore be focusing on the development
for these converters for the next few years. EM
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