uninterrupted success Riello Group

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The Riello Group of Italy is a market leader in the design and manufacture of heating and renewable power systems. The group was recently acquired by the Climate Controls & Security Corporation (UTC), which has enhanced Riello’s product portfolio, its HVAC technologies and global reach, as Philip Yorke reports.

The Riello Group was established in 1922 by its founder Pilade Riello in Legnago, Italy, and it remained a wholly-owned family business until 2015 when 70 per cent of the company was acquired by the United Technologies Corporation of America (UTC). The remaining 30 per cent was acquired by the corporation in December 2017. UTC is a leading global supplier of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and refrigeration systems. It also offers cutting edge fire and security systems, building controls and automation technologies.

Today the Riello Group is a truly global player with 17 subsidiaries, nine state-of-the-art production sites and four research centres of excellence. It employs more than 3000 people worldwide and in 2017 it recorded sales of more than €800 million.

Prizewinning power supply solutions

In May this year, Riello Power Systems, in association with its partner RWE Supply & Trading, won the coveted award for the most innovative energy-saving, power supply technologies. The prize was awarded for Riello’s and RWE’s solution for uninterruptable power supplies by the prestigious Deutsche n Rechenzentrumspreis es (DRZP), the ‘Oscars’ of the Data Centre Industry, the event’s sponsors. The special award was presented during a gala evening organised in conjunction with the conference, ‘Future Thinking’, in Darmstadt, Germany.

The uninterruptable power supply (UPS) product ‘Riello Master+’ was developed in close cooperation between both companies in order to improve the safety and quality of data-centre power supply systems, and at the same time reduce installation and operating costs. These were the goals achieved by Riello and RWE, which were presented at the ‘Future Thinking’ conference in Darmstadt.

“We have combined our unrivalled expertise to develop a unique and innovative UPS solution. Our latest ground-breaking system defines a new market reference for our customers. It reduces initial investment costs and running costs, while simultaneously increasing reliability and quality of the power supply itself,” commented Dr Hans Gunter Schwarz of GWE Supply & Trading.

For Riello Power Systems, Ing. Luca Buscherini added, “The customer who chooses this solution benefits from multiple advantages. For example, it uses a unique UPS system and ‘premium type batteries’ with as an oversized accumulation capacity that can easily be used as an extended-time and integrated battery supervision system (BMS).”

Today Riello is committed to the reduction of its environmental impact, which it considers a very important matter in terms of

sustainability and the quality of life. As a result, Riello has focused its research efforts exclusively on the development of renewable energy sources, with a clear emphasis on solar energy. The company’s extensive plant in Piombino Dese, Italy has been completely restructured to enable the exclusive production of high-tech solar energy products.

Pioneering data-centre solutions

The Riello Group’s uninterrupted power systems (UPS) multi-power (MPE) units are designed to offer optimal protection for critical, high-density computers and IT environments, such as data-centres, whilst achieving maximum availability. The new Riello products come in three different cabinet frames to ensure flexible modularity, which in turn allows the end user to easily boost power, its redundancy levels and battery autonomy.

The company’s multi-power units are designed to grow along with the demands of a business without oversizing the UPS, thereby optimising both the original investment and the total cost of ownership. Digital technology has an increasingly strong influence on day-to-day activities in almost all sectors and applications such as healthcare, power generation, social networking, telecommunications, commerce and education. Therefore, any activities and equipment related to data storage, processing and transfer should be supplied from the most reliable power source possible.

Multi Power technology ensures that scalable, secure, high quality power supply is available for a variety of critical load applications. The new MPW power modules feature the very latest in UPS technology, with their three-level Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) inverters and Power Factor Corrected (PFC) input controls. The new MPW module ensures the highest levels of performance in terms of overall efficiency, input power factor and harmonic impact on the original supply source.

In addition, the MPW module’s advanced communication system features a 7-inch LCD touch-screen, communication slots and relay cards with dedicated service ports. The advanced communication controls are uniquely designed and tailored for specific access levels for the organisation involved. Furthermore, its communication system can be easily integrated with building energy management systems (BEMS) and data centre infrastructure management systems.

The company’s Multi Power suite of features not only ensures easy UPS expansion and optimum operation, but also simplifies maintenance, as well as minimising down-time and the meantime between failure and meantime to repair. n