Power Quality for Pharmaceuticals
The cleanroom air handling, chillers and process lines in your facility waste electricity before it reaches them, and HarmoniQ stops that waste at its source, without stopping production.
Your Cleanrooms Run Clean. Your Current Doesn't.
Your site runs cleanroom air handling units, chillers, pumps and process lines, much of it around the clock. Between them they make the current in your network distorted, reactive and unbalanced, and part of every kilowatt-hour you pay for never does useful work. It becomes heat, in your cables, your transformers and your motor windings.
It doesn't appear on your bill as a line of its own. It shows up as higher consumption, power-factor penalties, capacity charges, and equipment that fails sooner than it should.
10–20%
Typical saving in kilowatt-hours on a facility's low-voltage loads, cleanroom air handling included, by preventing the losses before they occur
Where the Waste Starts in a Facility
Three problems account for most of it, and each has a unit that sits where the problem starts.
Harmonic distortion
Air handling and process drives
Variable-speed drives on air handling units, pumps and process lines draw current in sharp pulses. The 5th and 7th harmonics ripple through the facility, heating cables and transformers and upsetting sensitive controls.
FittedHarmoniQ Delta, at the drives
Reactive power
Chillers, pumps and compressors
Chillers, pumps and compressors draw current that does no work but still has to be supplied, inflating the apparent power you are billed for and the capacity you have to reserve.
FittedHarmoniQ Alpha at each machine, HarmoniQ Sigma at the incomer
Phase imbalance
Laboratory and single-phase loads
Laboratory benches, lighting and small power are single-phase and leave the three phases uneven. The difference flows down the neutral and sets up counter-rotating fields in your motors: heat without torque.
FittedHarmoniQ Alpha, at the load
Same Output. Less Power.
With the waste prevented, the same facility makes the same output on fewer kilowatt-hours. With power-factor penalties gone and capacity charges lower too, that can take up to 25% off your total electricity bill where all three apply.
- Energy savings · kWh
- 10–20%
- Power factor
- 0.98+
- Equipment life · Arrhenius
- 2–4×
- Operational disruption
- 0
What We Hear, and the Reality
We hear
“Our analytical instruments have power protection built in.”
The reality
Whatever is built into an instrument can only protect that instrument. It does nothing about the distorted current your air handling and process drives push through the shared cables and transformers. That is where the energy is wasted. HarmoniQ stops it where it starts, at the drives.
We hear
“Any electrical work near cleanrooms means revalidation.”
The reality
Whether a change needs revalidation is for your quality team to decide, under your own change control. What we can say is how HarmoniQ connects: in parallel, alongside your circuits rather than in series with them. None of your process equipment runs through it, and it goes in with production running.
We hear
“Our investigations always find a root cause. Power quality has never been flagged.”
The reality
A cause that is never measured is never found. Our engineers measure your network before anything is fitted, so you can see for yourself what the current is doing and where energy is being wasted.
Three Steps. Zero Disruption.
01 · Assess
Measure the network
Our engineers measure your network, from the air handling to the process lines, and show you where energy is being wasted, before anything is fitted.
02 · Install
Fit alongside your circuits
Each unit goes in where its problem starts, connected in parallel, with production running and under your own change control.
03 · Prove
Test it on and off
The on/off test proves the saving at your own meter, before any annual figure is quoted.
See What HarmoniQ Can Do for Your Facility
Our engineers will measure your site and show you exactly where energy is being wasted, and how much of it HarmoniQ can prevent.