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AP Sensing provides Kriegers Flak monitoring solution

4C Offshore | Tom Russell
By: Tom Russell 13/11/2019 AP Sensing

AP Sensing was selected by Danish transmission operator Energinet to provide a monitoring solution for the
Kriegers Flak transmission system. The company's project engineering team commissioned and tested the systems at Kriegers Flak in the spring of 2019 and it is now in use.

AP Sensing is monitoring a total of 300 km, using six Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) units and nine Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) units. The DTS units with a range of 30-50 km and 1-4 channels are in use for thermal profiling and to detect thermal abnormalities. The DAS units with ranges from 25-50 km and 1 channel each for fault location.

Monitoring covers the two offshore platforms of Kriegers Flak A and B offshore substations, as well as on the onshore substations Bjaeverskov and Ishoj. The equipment is also being used to monitor subsea export cables, subsea interconnection cables and onshore cabling associated with the project.


The power cable monitoring solution for Kriegers Flak utilises AP Sensing's SmartVision asset visualisation software, which is designed to provide a real-time graphic overview of all distributed temperature and acoustic information at each of the power substations. This provides information on the condition of the power cable circuits and pre-defined sections for alarming, as well as data analysis and storage.

The Danish
Kriegers Flak  wind farm project is located in the Baltic Sea, and will consist of two parts. Kriegers Flak A, the west section, will have a total capacity of 200 MW. The east section, Kriegers Flak B, will have a total capacity of 400 MW. It will feature 72 Siemens Gamesa SG 8.0-167 DD turbines which have a rotor diameter of 167 metres. Vattenfall secured the rights to the project in November 2016 with a winning bid of EUR 49.9 per MWh.

The project also forms part of the Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution for which a 170 kV High Voltage Alternating Current cable system connects two offshore wind farms,
Kriegers Flak and EnBW Baltic 2. The solution connects the national grids of Denmark and Germany and is designed to facilitate the transmission of power between the countries via the interconnection between the two wind farms.

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