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Inside the capacitor bank panel: Power factor correction, calculation and schematics
Various calculations must be performed during the electrical design stages of any project to deliver a safe electrical system for the end user. One of the essential things that must be taken into account after calculating the total and demand…...
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Aug 22, 2022 | By Mohammed Ayman
Electrical Machines
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12 essential parameters required for rating large generators
When specifying generators, the first thing that comes to mind is a rating. The machine’s rating is a set of parameters that, simply speaking in engineering terms, describe the generator. These values indicate the generator’s available power output as well…...
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Mar 28, 2022 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
A few practical ways to determine required reactive energy compensation for a power system
This article will shed some light on how adding capacitors gives the distribution system the necessary reactive power to return the power factor to the required level. Capacitors act as a source of reactive energy, which accordingly reduces the reactive… Read more
Mar 01, 2021 | By Edvard Csanyi
Electrical Lectures
Why should plant engineers be worried about the power factor? What’s the catch?
Why are power engineers interested in plant power factor, what causes low power factor, and how can it be improved? The objectives of this article are to answer these questions briefly and to include handy application information for power-factor problems…. Read more
May 04, 2020 | By Edvard Csanyi
Electrical Lectures
What is the complex power and how it figures in power analysis
Considerable effort has been expended over the years to express power relations as simply as possible. Power engineers have coined the term complex power, which they use to find the total effect of parallel loads. Complex power is important in… Read more
Mar 17, 2017 | By Edvard Csanyi
Electric Motor
Detailed calculation of currents and power according to the type of load
Currents and power analysis are key factors in any design or redesign of an installation they will enable the source(s) to be sized according to the purpose of the installation, the intended use of the circuits and the receivers to… Read more
Feb 13, 2017 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
How capacitors improve the power factor and how to calculate them?
It’s quite simple. By installing capacitors or capacitor banks. Improving the power factor of an electrical installation consists of giving it the means to “produce” a certain proportion of the reactive energy it consumes itself. The capacitor is most frequently… Read more
Nov 16, 2016 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
Power Measurement On Four-Wire System Using Wattmeter Methods
A four-wire system is suitable to supply unbalanced, three-phase loads or single phase loads distributed on all three phases of a low voltage installation. When measuring power on a three-phase system, it is really necessary to take into consideration the… Read more
Apr 06, 2016 | By Edvard Csanyi
Industrial Automation
What size of a frequency converter do I need? (4 methods to find out)
When determining the rating of a frequency converter at a given load the first step is to consider the load characteristics. There are four different methods for calculating the required output performance and the choice of method depends on the… Read more
Feb 22, 2016 | By Edvard Csanyi
Datacenters
Sizing a Static UPS System In Data Center
Choosing the power of a static UPS system serving a data center is a decision that involves various elements and which cannot be made before, or independently from, the choice of distribution scheme. The main elements to consider can be summarised… Read more
Jan 23, 2015 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
What’s common for Beer Mug and Power Factor?
Understanding power factor is not that hard. We have some very common example from the real life you will understand for sure, but first let’s start with some introduction of power factor. To understand power factor, we’ll first start with… Read more
Nov 15, 2012 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
The real truth behind household power savers
A household power low voltage saving devices has recently received a lot of attention from both consumers and manufacturers. It is generally used in residential homes to save energy and to reduce electricity bills. It is a small device which… Read more
Mar 07, 2012 | By Jignesh Parmar
Transformers
How to choose transformer rating?
When an installation is to be supplied directly from a MV/LV transformer and the maximum apparent-power loading of the installation has been determined, a suitable rating for the transformer can be decided, taking into account the following considerations: The possibility… Read more
Mar 12, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
