Application Areas

SINEC is a strategic ally in the development of projects related to new constructions and modernisation of existing facilities, taking part in every stage of such projects, from the preliminary phases of conceptual engineering up to their implementation and start-up.

Renewables and Electric Mobility

Step 1

START UP
  • Selection of site (available resource, network usage, etc.)
  • Selection of most appropriate technology according to site
  • Relevant details of historical resource
  • Evaluation of ex ante profitability
  • Projects with access to network or autonomous projects
  • Projects related to hybrid or complementary installations

Step 2

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
  • Basic and detailed engineering
  • Calculation reports
  • Electrical studies (flow, short-circuit, protections)
  • Management of access permits
  • Social-environmental impact

Step 3

CONSTRUCTION
  • Start-up
  • Connection to the power network
  • on contracts with the Market or with dispatch / clearance entities
  • As-built Engineering
  • Civil work and electromechanical assembly
  • Trials for business operation license

Step 4

MAINTENANCE
  • Measurement of generated parameters
  • Commercial monitoring of invoicing and debits
  • Predictive and preventive maintenance
  • Early warning of revisions

Oriented to small and medium-sized users and industries.

  • Technical and economic pre-feasability analysis
  • Determination of project location by means of simulation software
  • Advice on administrative and commercial formalities
  • Assembly, start-up and maintenance
  • Advice and trials on bi-directional meters

  • Design, assembly and maintenance of charging stations
  • Technical and economic advice for implementation of electric mobility
  • Advice on administrative and commercial formalities for the sale of energy with the use of BESS

Oil&Gas

  • Conceptual studies
  • Basic Engineering

  • Detailed Engineering of new industrial premises or modernisation of industrial sites
  • Engineering of industrial equipment
  • Development of Commercial Measurement Systems

  • Technical purchasing of industrial equipment
  • Transport support and on-site storage

  • Supervision of industrial equipment assembly
  • Start-up of industrial sites
  • Support to the operation and maintenance along plant guarantee phase

  • Maintenance of field facilities and oil, water & gas treatment plants
  • Maintenance of Low, Medium and High Voltage lines
  • Maintenance on live facilities
  • Maintenance on electrical boards, control devices and systems

Our services cover every stage of the projects, from engineering and management to installations start-up, including equipment and material supply, logistics, manpower, reception and on-site trials.

  • Diagnosis of cables and fault tracing
  • Transformers (Power and Distribution) and Reactors (Wet and Dry)
  • Measurement Transformers (CT – VT)
  • Switches – Reclosers and Disconnector Switches
  • Diagnosis and predictive maintenance in Motors and Generators
  • Measurement in Earthing Systems
  • Battery Banks
  • Capacitor Banks
  • Protection Analysis – Protection Relays
  • Remote control and SCADA systems
  • Optical fiber communication systems and IEC 61850 protocol
  • Quality Service
  • Thermographs
  • Analysis on Flow of charge and power in electrical grids
  • Distinction and certification of SMEC’s types of meters and data loggers
  • Studies on harmonics and quality service in industrial facilities
  • Projects on Automatic Transfer Boards for Generators
  • Own development – Automation of Multiple Step Capacitor Bank
  • Own development – Automatic Voltage Regulator (Power Transformer – Tap Changer Controller)
  • Start-up of low, medium, high and extra high voltage facilities
  • Measurement of Electromagnetic Fields, Radio interference and audible noise (National Electricity Regulatory Board Resolution)
  • Study on Selectivity and Coordination of Protections, modelling in simulators
  • Instrumentation and Control
  • Standardisation of electrical installations
  • Geo-referenced monitoring and m

  • Work planning and monitoring
  • Construction supervision
  • Support to Site Technical Office

Mining

  • Studies on electrical flow and short-circuit
  • Studies on stability of electrical energy transmission systems
  • Studies of harmonics in electrical systems
  • Electromagnetic transients in power systems
  • Selectivity of electrical protections
  • Comprehensive studies of energy efficiency
  • Studies on Electric Arc (Arc Flash)
  • Analysis of small signal (modal analysis)
  • Reliability analysis
  • Study on Energisation and Restitution (blackstar)

  • Engineering, Procurement and Electrical Construction projects
  • Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning and Start-up related services of electrical works
  • Construction and assembly of electrical rooms
  • Construction and assembly of transformer substations in medium and high voltage
  • Pressurisation of electrical rooms
  • Maintenance of medium voltage lines

  • Measurements of earthing systems
  • Measurements and trials of electrical protections in low and medium voltage
  • Trials on conductors
  • Insulation profiling in medium voltage lines

Conduction of basic and detailed engineering of

  • Electrical projects
  • Instrumentation and control projects
  • DCS and SCADA Control Systems
  • Automatic synchronisation of generators
  • Environmental Impact Studies
  • Evaluation on investment projects (profitability indicators)
  • Advice on regulation and tariff related matters

  • Quality Assurance Service in high, medium and low voltage electrical works
  • Quality Assurance Service in instruments assembly

  • Operation and Maintenance of electrical networks
  • Operation of Protection Relays
  • Operation of Supervision and Control Systems
  • Criteria for the Procurement of Events and Oscillographs
  • Basic concepts of the Protections System
  • Operation of electric power systems and monitoring stations
  • Flows of Active Power
  • Calculation of short-circuits
  • Flow of reactive power and voltage control
  • Protections for electric power systems and automatisms
  • Frequency regulation
  • Surges in power systems
  • Demand forecast
  • Restoration of electric power systems
  • SCADA Systems
  • Harmonics in electrical systems
  • Control of electrical systems

  • Supply of competent staff for the control of specific electrical related tasks

Industry

  • Protection against lightning strike and surge: integral solution
  • Earthing systems: design, measurement, construction
  • Electrical studies: coordination of protections, motor start-up, selection of conductors, disturbances
  • Energy efficiency: study, measurements and solutions
  • Work-related risks: lighting levels, noise , electromagnetic fields. Studies, measurements and solutions
  • Civil, electromechanical and electrical construction of industrial premises
  • Installation start-up
  • Engines and generation units: diagnosis of condition, functioning evaluation studies, trials
  • Protection and control panels, main and sectional switchboards. Design, manufacturing and assembly
  • Automatic transfer boards of supply to emergency generation units
  • Quality service: micro-cuts, voltage drops, harmonics and flicker. Measurement and recommendations
  • Predictive maintenance: thermographs, verification of insulation, protection trials, measurement of earthing systems (Res 900)
  • Instrumentation and control: projects and systems assembly
  • Quality assurance systems ISO 9001 and environmental management systems ISO 14001.- Support for certification

Utilities

In the field of electricity, the companies known as Utilities are the ones which provide the service within the supply chain of Electrical Power. These companies can be split up into three categories: Generation, Transmission and Distribution. Sinec provides services linked to the requirements and needs of:

  • Access studies
  • Trials and calibration of Voltage and Frequency Monitoring systems
  • Development of Draft, Basic and Detailed Engineering
  • Electrical trials on Rotor, Stator and Exciter of Generation Unit
  • Electrical trials on block transformer
  • Assembly and Start-up of conventional and non-conventional Power Plants
  • Measurement of harmonics and Electromagnetic Field
  • Studies and trials on coordination of protections
  • Design and verification of Earthing System
  • Studies on Arc Flash and short-circuit
  • Civil, electromechanical and electrical work at transformer stations, pre-commissioning and commissioning of transformer stations
  • Design and implementation of telecommunication system (IEC 61850)

  • Access studies
  • Planning, determination and verification studies on transmission constraints
  • Studies on coordination of protections
  • Studies on Electromagnetic Transients
  • Measurement of Electromagnetic Field
  • Draft, basic and detailed Engineering in medium, high and extra-high voltage overhead lines and underground cables
  • Trials on cables and lines
  • Verification of earthing systems
  • Geo-referenced electrical surveying and modelling of electrical systems
  • Studies, dimensioning and design of reactive power compensation systems
  • Assembly of medium and high voltage lines

  • Projection studies on demand growth
  • Planning and development of electrical systems
  • Smart Grid
  • Tariff analysis
  • Trials on electricity assets
  • Predictive and corrective maintenance of installations
  • Transformer stations and overhead lines Engineering