Piller supplies new generation of rotary UPS at major German civilian airport after its original installation completes 27 years of power protection service
Piller Power Systems has updated the runway lighting power protection at Düsseldorf Airport with a UNIBLOCK UBT+ UPS 27 years after it installed an original system to protect day to day operations.
A Piller UPS deployment reached the milestone of 27 years of service providing critical load protection for the airfield lighting system composed of thousands of individual lights.
Over two and a half decades Piller’s UPS technology underpinned safe take-offs and landings for hundreds of thousands of aircraft transporting millions of people as they departed or returned on holiday or business travels, quietly, in the background, without them ever knowing.
The system is installed in a remote airfield position and operated steadily throughout days and nights in calm Spring weather, extremes of Summer heat, deep Winter plummeting temperatures and hostile rain, wind and snow.
At the site the original UPS is being retired and replaced with a new generation of Piller sustainable UNIBLOCK UBT+ UPS with POWERBRIDGE kinetic energy storage.
This generation of UPS will respond to any grid and load conditions providing the same protection levels at much higher rates of power efficiency,
Piller technology is built to last. Its robust and highly reliable designed and engineered UPS systems are built for long term operation even under harsh environmental and technical conditions and with minimal maintenance intervals.
The airport can look forward to more decades of power protection with the UPS contributing to the trouble-free and sustainable operation of the airport.
But for the original UPS the story does not end here. Piller has always believed in circularity and cradle to grave thinking. Thanks to its design and construction the majority of parts and components from the original system will be recycled and repurposed to live on in other machines and uses for more decades to come.
Piller was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1909 by engineer Anton Piller. Employing around 1000 people worldwide, Piller is headquartered in Osterode, near Hanover, Germany, with subsidiaries across Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Piller is committed to creating a sustainable future in mission-critical power protection, and energy storage. The Piller group is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multi-disciplined global UK engineering and industrial group, Langley Holdings plc and is part of Langley Holdings’ Power Solutions division.