Case Study: Deployment of 300 Smart Motor Control Centers: Copyright Material IEEE, Paper No. PCIC-2018-21

This paper describes the design of, and the lessons learned from, a deployment of 300 smart motor control centers for a large oil and gas project in Eurasia. The same smart electronics were deployed in motor control centers manufactured by three different suppliers. The standardization of communication, power system protection, and automation designs across the entire project reduced the need for spare parts, provided consistency across all locations, integrated condition monitoring equipment, and provided interfaces to process control systems. Arc-flash and conventional protection schemes were provided. Manufacturing, testing, and design methods are shared in this paper.