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Edvard Csanyi

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Electrical engineer, programmer and founder of EEP. Highly specialized for design of LV/MV switchgears and LV high power busbar trunking (<6300A) in power substations, commercial buildings and industry facilities. Professional in AutoCAD programming.

Website: https://electrical-engineering-portal.com

Energy and Power

Applications and forms of differential relays

Differential relays take a variety of forms, depending on the equipment they protect. The definition of such a relay is “one that operates when the vector difference of two or… Read more

Aug 15, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

ABB Residual Current Breaker with Overload Protection RCBo
Geothermal Energy

New download – Geothermal Electricity Basics

Geothermal electricity is electricity generated from geothermal energy. Technologies in use include dry steam power plants, flash steam power plants and binary cycle power plants. Geothermal electricity generation is currently… Read more

Aug 14, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

Krafla Geothermal Station in northeast Iceland
Energy and Power

Whole-House Protection Strategy

No single SPD (Surge Protection Strategy) can protect all the equipment in a residence from all causes of electrical surges. Instead, a whole-house protection strategy, consisting of point-of-entry and point-of-use… Read more

Aug 13, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

SIEMENS - Whole-House Protection Strategy
Hydropower

Arrangement of Hydropower Plants

Hydropower machine is the designation used for a machine that directly convert the hydraulic power in a water fall to mechanical power on the machine shaft. This power conversion involves… Read more

Aug 10, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

Arrangement of hydropower plants
Electric Motor

Cooling and Ventilation of Electric Motors (IC)

All rotating electrical machines generate heat as a result of the electrical and mechanical losses inside the machine. Losses are high during starting or dynamic braking. Also, losses usually increase… Read more

Aug 08, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

Cooling and ventilation of electric motors (IC)
Transformers

Life Cycle Cost of Transformers

To perform the economical analysis of transformer, it is necessary to calculate its life cycle cost, sometimes called total cost of ownership, over the life span of transformer or, in… Read more

Aug 06, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

Old substation transformers
Energy and Power

Principles for Controlling Harmonics

Harmonic distortion is caused by nonlinear devices in the power system. A nonlinear device is one in which the current is not proportional to the applied voltage. Harmonic distortion is… Read more

Aug 05, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

Variation of the voltage THD over a 1-week period
Industrial Automation

How Stuxnet (PLC virus) spreads – Part 3

Continued from How Stuxnet (PLC virus) spreads – Part 2 » Read here Given the well-secured industrial control system described above, how could a worm like Stuxnet ever penetrate all the… Read more

Aug 03, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

How Stuxnet (PLC virus) spreads
Energy and Power

DC to AC Transfer – Measurement

General transfer capability is essential to the measurement of voltage, current, power, and energy. The standard cell, the unit of voltage which it preserves, and the unit of current derived… Read more

Jul 30, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

Electric Motor

AC motors – Protection against short circuits

Every electric motor has operating limits. Overshooting these limits will eventually destroy it and the systems it drives, the immediate effect being operating shutdown and losses. A short circuit is… Read more

Jul 29, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

GV2-L magnetic circuit breaker (Schneider Electric) and its graphic symbol
Energy and Power

Resistive heating explained in details

Whenever an electric current flows through a material that has some resistance (i.e., anything but a superconductor), it creates heat. This resistive heating is the result of “friction,” as created… Read more

Jul 27, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

Energy and Power

Materials with magnetic properties

All materials have magnetic properties. These characteristic properties may be divided into five groups as follows: Diamagnetic Paramagnetic Ferromagnetic Antiferromagnetic Ferrimagnetic Only ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic materials have properties which are… Read more

Jul 26, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

Fig. 3.2 Magnetization and hysteresis curves
Industrial Automation

How Stuxnet (PLC virus) spreads – Part 2

Continued from How Stuxnet (PLC virus) spreads – Part 1 » Read here Stuxnet is a computer worm designed to infect Siemens SIMATIC WinCC and S7 PLC products, either installed… Read more

Jul 23, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi

How Stuxnet (PLC virus) spreads


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